Urban Newspaper Workshop

Seattle University offers all students access to a quality education and professors who encourage public service. That is why Seattle University’s Communication Department hosts the annual Urban Newspaper Workshop for students of color.

The prestigious workshop is a two-week summer camp sponsored by Seattle University, The Seattle Times and the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. During the workshop junior and senior high school students of color practice such skills as writing, photography, graphic design, and advertising. Their creative work results in a 36-page newspaper that is distributed to high schools through out the Puget Sound.

In hosting the free workshop, the Communication Department hopes to encourage students of color and their communities to become active players in this country’s information revolution.

1998 Urban Newspaper Workshop

Students of color should be informed of local and world events. They must become wiser information consumers to critically assess issues and participate in social change.

Students of color should be represented in this nation’s newsrooms, whether those newsrooms focus on print, broadcast or cyber news. It is in the newsroom that journalists create the stories, photographs, graphics and images that shape world opinion of people and cultures.

Seattle University and the Urban Newspaper Workshop share the same mission: to expand the role of people of color in the field of communication. Education and employment are linked, more than ever, to the use, production, and dissemination of information.