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The Reynolds Institute is an intensive two-week newspaper journalism training program for high school teachers. Instruction is based on the core tenets of journalism and the skills needed to produce a top-notch scholastic publication, on paper or online.

Topics include: reporting, writing, editing, photojournalism, layout and design, opinion pages, journalistic credibility ethics and responsibilities, the future of daily newspapers and business-side skills.

First Amendment matters, privacy and the state of scholastic press freedoms are also key topics

The Institute enables and energizes a corps of teachers to:

• Help students start a campus newspaper.
• Dramatically improving the quality of an existing newspaper.
• Enhance their teaching in areas that include journalism, English, social studies and civics.

The Institute pays for air transportation, lodging, meals, cost of instruction, and continuing education credit hours (at the discretion of the university) for participants. Additional benefits include: memberships to scholastic journalism associations, subscriptions to journalism magazines and the beginnings of a journalism library.

Participation is one-time only. Alumni are encouraged to invite others to apply.