Aug 2, 2006 in PROGRAMS APPLICATION FORM
Teens & Alcohol Project
contact GARY MOSKOWITZ
All teen journalists are invited to participate. The contest works like this:
Teens research and report on teenage drinking in the following ways: students can write news articles, blogs, opinion pieces, first-person narratives or Q and As. They can also produce photo stories, audio or multimedia journalism pieces that address the topic of teenage drinking.
The deadline is December 8, 2006. The winner will be announced December 15. All student work written or produced since Fall 2005 is eligible for judging.
CIIJ will judge submissions based on: originality, depth, writing and reporting, overall effectiveness of story and quality of work. If submissions are in language other than English, please provide an English translation.
The winning student earns a cash prize. All students receive an award certificate for their hard work, and their submission gets posted on our Web site.
All participants must submit an official application form (Click on "APPLICATION FORM" at top of this page) and a short cover letter explaining the work they submitted.
Here’s how to submit your stories:
1) E-mail written work, audio, multimedia work or URL links, official application form and cover letter to ciijhs@sfsu.edu.
2) Mail envelope with clips, official application form and cover letter
3) Mail CD’s with audio, visual or multimedia work, with official application form and cover letter.
Send all mail to: Teens and Alcohol Project, C/O High School Outreach Program Coordinator, Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, HUM 307, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94132.
An Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation grant funds the Teens and Alcohol Project.
If you have any questions please email CIIJ High School Outreach Program Coordinator Gary Moskowitz at ciijhs@sfsu.edu or call (415) 338-2542.
Good luck!