{"id":6931,"date":"2024-10-11T15:42:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:42:22","slug":"high-schoolers-learn-about-collegiate-journalism-during-j-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/10\/11\/high-schoolers-learn-about-collegiate-journalism-during-j-day\/","title":{"rendered":"High schoolers learn about collegiate journalism during J-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014\u00a0J-Day, short for Journalism Day<\/a>, is dedicated to showing off all that the Hall School of Journalism and Communications (HSJC<\/a>) has to offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students who attended J-Day have the option to participate in workshops that cover broadcast and print journalism, photography, yearbook design and sports reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goal for J-Day is to bring high school students from all over the state and even the panhandle of Florida to the campus of Troy University to teach them journalism best practices,” J-Day organizer Morgan Drinkard said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor and faculty advisor to the Tropolitan<\/a> newspaper, Hanna Cooper, suggested high schoolers get involved in the school news organizations in order to start gaining experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI think something that high schoolers kind of struggle with a lot is thinking that they can\u2019t get involved, and so I always love J-Day specifically because I get to go back to my roots,\u201d Cooper told TrojanVision.  \u201cI started in high school, I sidelined football reporters, and I did a PA for baseball for a season, so it\u2019s really fun for me to go back to J-Day and tell the kids, no, you can go ahead and get started now.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mackenzie Foster, a Troy student, and TrojanVision Student News Director, said the skills that high schoolers are introduced to at J-Day are the same ones they will utilize in the real world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI did an internship over the summer, and the skills that TrojanVision and The Tropolitan gave me allowed me to walk into that newsroom and know exactly what full-time employees are supposed to do,\u201d Foster told TrojanVision. \u201cThere\u2019s something really impressive about being a college student and looking at your news director looking and at your editor and chief and being like, I know how to do this please let me do it, and then you do it, and you do it amazingly, and they\u2019re like wow you\u2019re great. Do you want a job?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students who attend J-Day are encouraged to return for official tours and to learn more about journalism and communication courses offered at Troy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information about the HSJC, visit its website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014\u00a0J-Day, short for Journalism Day, is dedicated to showing off all that the Hall School of Journalism and Communications (HSJC) has to offer.<\/p>\n

Students who attended J-Day have the option to participate in workshops that cover broadcast and print journalism, photography, yearbook design and sports reporting.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal for J-Day is to…<\/p>\n

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