Students April Hale and Mervyn Tilden are among a dozen college students nationally awarded scholarships to attend the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) Student Print Project August 7-14 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
NAJA also hosts its 21st annual convention “A Free Press, A Free People” this week in Lincoln.
Hale, of Iyanbito, N.M., attends the UNM main campus. Tilden is from Church Rock, N.M., and attends UNM-Gallup. Both are journalism students and members of NAJA as well as alumni of the American Indian Journalism Institute, located in Vermillion, S.D.
NAJA’s 2005 print project is "designed to give college students a glimpse of what it is like to work in a real newsroom while working with Native professionals," said Kim Baca, NAJA interim executive director.
Participants will produce three newspapers called the Native Voice to be distributed during the convention. Several will have their work posted on NAJA's Web site at www.naja.com.