The application deadline has been extended to Dec. 10

Internship highlights are:

- Course at the Poynter Institute

- $500 upon completion for students who are returning to school

- Eight-week paid internship at a newspaper

Apply here: http://www.aaja.org/programs/for_students/media_internships/

The Globe’s summer internship program has been giving college students who are interested in journalism a peek into the industry for more than 50 years.

The majority of interns work as general assignment reporters in the City/Region section. Other reporter-interns work in Sports, Living/Arts, or Business.

Interns are treated as staffers hired to cover the city of Boston and locales throughout New England; they write breaking news stories as well as craft enterprise pieces.

Interns go on daily assignments and leave the program with dozens of clips. Each reporter-intern works with a writing coach, and the program includes weekly educational seminars on journalism issues, including a critique session for the reporters.

The Globe also hires an intern to work on the News copy desk, as well as an intern each for the Design and Photo departments. The copy editing intern works on stories from City/Region, National, Foreign and Business,

including Page One stories. Design interns design different sections fronts, as well as informational graphics; the photo intern shoots for all of the sections. Every intern is also responsible for producing online work.

The 12-week paid program has 10 slots, and is open to undergraduate students, graduating seniors, and journalism graduate school students who have not had professional experience as a newspaper reporter. Because the internship is demanding and fast-paced, applicants must have had at least one prior daily newspaper internship.

The deadline to apply is November 1, 2009.

All applications should be mailed.

Thank you,

Paula Bouknight

The Boston Globe

AME/Hiring & Development

Tel: 617-929-3120

Fax: 617-929-2018

The applicants were asked to submit a resume, an official school transcript, two letters of recommendation, a short essay and work samples. Students were selected on the basis of their commitment to the field of journalism, sensitivity to Asian American and Pacific Islander issues, journalistic ability, scholastic ability and financial need.

This year’s judges were Bob Bayer, a retired longtime editor at the Los Angeles Times; Frank Buckley, co-anchor of KTLA’s “Morning News” and a former AAJA scholarship winner; Henry Fuhrmann, assistant managing editor at the Times and a former AAJA-LA chapter president; and Traci Tamura, a senior producer with CNN. Frank and Henry co-chaired the selection committee.

$2500 AAJA Sam Chu Lin Scholarship

Stephen Nelson, Chapman University

Stephen is the first recipient of the Sam Chu Lin Memorial Scholarship, funded by Southern California Edison, and a most worthy candidate to carry on Sam’s legacy in Los Angeles broadcasting. Stephen, a third-year student, is working toward bachelor’s degrees in television/broadcast journalism and public relations/advertising. At Chapman, he has created, hosted, written and acted in radio and TV shows. His instructors extol his writing and leadership skills; his colleagues with the Los Angeles Angels, for whom he works as a camera operator, cite his professionalism and eagerness to learn. In the judges’ view, Stephen has what it takes to become an accomplished sports broadcast journalist.

$2500 AAJA Los Angeles Scholarship

Stephanie Lau, USC

Stephanie, a third-year major in public relations and East Asian languages and cultures, stood out among the applicants for her sensitive take on issues of culture and ethnicity. As diversity beat reporter for USC’s Daily Trojan, she wrote an impressive news feature in response to media claims that the election of Barack Obama had toppled racial barriers in politics; the comments she elicited from fellow students told a more nuanced story. Stephanie so impressed her bosses during an internship last year at AsianWeek that they appointed her one of two managing editors of their 2008 Beijing Olympics special insert. Her philosophy: “With words, I can reveal truths, battle ignorance and inspire change.”

$1500 AAJA Peter Imamura Scholarship

Tercius Bufete, LACC/CSUN

Tercius is “the future,” as one of our judges put it: a multi-platform journalist who has demonstrated his talents as a cartoonist, writer, Web designer and video producer. In his writing, an English professor notes, Tercius offers “sophisticated insight which doesn’t go out of its way to announce its complexity.” In his scholarship essay, Tercius offers examples of such insight: “It is not wealth, property or fame that is essential but family, respect and spirituality, the foundation of the Asian community, which we should cherish.” He plans to enroll at Cal State Northridge after graduating from LACC.

$1500 AAJA Los Angeles Scholarship

Saba Mohtasham, UCLA

Saba is a third-year student at UCLA, majoring in international development studies. She impressed her editor during an internship at Entertainment Weekly as a “terrific writer, enterprising reporter and skilled surveyor of the cultural landscape.” There, he said, Saba delivered work that rivaled that of professionals with decades of experience, including a well-received blog covering “Flight of the Conchords.” Saba is trilingual, with aspirations to learn more languages. She writes: “I’ve always believed that the best way to make this world a better place is to understand it to the best of our abilities.”

$500 AAJA Los Angeles Scholarship

Jane Suh, UCI

Jane is a fourth-year student at Irvine, pursuing bachelor’s degrees in literary journalism and French. She is a dean’s honor list student and Golden Key Scholar. Jane impressed the judges with her literary journalism project on North Korean refugees and the difficulties they encounter in the free world. One of her instructors cited her “antenna for the telling nuance.” Jane, who has traveled widely in Asia through missions and youth outreach programs, aspires “to write about the people that are transforming the world … the ordinary, average people who are making a difference on a daily basis.”

$500 AAJA Los Angeles Scholarship

Joseph Prado, CSUN

Joseph won over the judges as an energetic, talented broadcast journalist. He has done every job imaginable – field reporter, writer, camera operator, teleprompter operator, audio technician, editor and anchor – for the campus news program “Valley View News.” Joseph is a sports intern at KABC and is set to graduate from Northridge this semester. One of his professors describes Joseph as “the kind of person we want in our industry.” He not only covers sports but plays them – football and rugby – and impressed his instructors by overcoming a serious jaw injury to complete his studies.

Scholarship recipients will be honored October 9 at the chapter’s Trivia Bowl fundraiser.

We’ll show you the essential tools and skills you need to become a multimedia journalist at AAJA-LA’s Audio/Video Basics Workshop.

Date: Saturday, June 20

Time: 12:30-3 p.m.

Where: KoreAm Journal, 17000 Vermont Ave., Suite A, Gardena 90247

Who should attend: Reporters, photojournalists, bloggers – anyone interested in enhancing their multimedia skills.

In this practical workshop, you’ll learn how to …

- Navigate your way around a basic video camera
- Create a simple video news clip
- Upload and file videos to the Web
- Find and use the right sound
- Enhance your voicing skills
- Translate your print skills into an audio production

RSVP to Melissa Mecija at m.mecija@gmail.com. This workshop will be limited to 20 participants, so please RSVP early. You are welcome to bring a digital camera with video capturing abilities to help yourself follow along.

The instructors:

Darryl Kim is a videographer, editor and engineer at FOX 11 News in Los Angeles. He is also co-owner of WorldWise Productions (www.worldwiseproductions.com), a full-service video production company. He began his TV news career at a cable news station in Santa Monica, moved onto videography work at KCOP Channel 13 in Los Angeles,
then to KSBW the number one NBC affiliate in Salinas, California. He was the chief videographer at KSWB, the WB affiliate in San Diego, for five years. He briefly worked at KNBC in Los Angeles before moving to KTTV/KCOP three years ago.

Phillip Ige is a photojournalist for KTLA Channel 5. Phil’s first job as a news photographer came in 1998 at KERO, the ABC affiliate in Bakersfield. As the years moved forward, Phil has worked in markets like Santa Barbara, CA and Norfolk, VA. After 5 years in the San Diego market(KSWB, KNSD), he packed his bags and moved back home to L.A to
work for KTLA. He’s been there for 8 months now. In July of this year, Phil earned his very first Emmy Award for his achievement in News Photography. Phil is a member and Board Member for the Los Angeles Chapter of the Asian American Journalist Association.

Corey Takahashi is a freelance journalist and audio producer. He started his career in the newspaper industry, then moved into magazines and public radio. He was a contributor to the program “Pacific Time,” which covered Asia and Asian America, airing in the U.S. and Hong Kong. His subsequent radio stories have been distributed by National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and other broadcast outlets. He was a staffer at New York Public Radio, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, and a founding editor at the 1990s hip-hop magazine, Blaze. As a freelancer, he has filed stories from international stops, including Venice, Mumbai, and Phnom Penh.