Sophomore earns all-expense paid summer journalism workshop
Mundelein High School sophomore, Madison Parola, has been accepted into the all-expenses paid Illinois Press Foundation/Eastern Illinois University Journalism Workshop for high school students. Currently an assistant editor of the MHS school newspaper, The Mustang, Parola will serve as an editor next year. She has worked on The Mustang both her freshman and sophomore years. The 11-day residential workshop provides a close-up view at journalism as a career. Participants are introduced to the complete process of publishing newspapers: gathering information, writing news, editing, designing and producing a news and online publication. The workshop also includes field trips to cover a county commission meeting, to write a feature story about a regional city and to hike through a state park. In addition, the student journalists will spend three days in a hands-on internship at a newspaper to gain practical, “real-world” experience. “Because Madison has plans to maintain the quality of the school’s journalism program, I am thrilled she is going above and beyond to achieve this goal by attending this summer workshop where she will have some amazing hands-on opportunities,” said The Mustang advisor, Michelle Didzbalis. “I know that she will return from her experience eager to share what she has learned with the rest of the staff,” she said. The bulk of the workshop is funded by the Illinois Press Foundation with significant contributions from the Eastern Illinois University department of journalism.
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