2011_Schedule
Below is the schedule for the 2011 program. Though the schedule varies from year to year, this will give prospective students a sense of what the program is like.
Friday, July 29th
Students arrive throughout the day
5:00 - 6:00PM [Scully]: Introduction, orientation, and fire drill
6:00 - 7:00PM [Wilcox Private Dining Room]: Dinner
7:00 - 8:00PM: Campus tour
8:00 - 10:30PM [Friend 109]: A full-group discussion on why this program exists
10:30 - 11:30PM [Friend 109]: Discussion of the rest of the week’s activities
11:40PM: Lights out
Saturday, July 30th
7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Scully]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30AM [Friend 109]: Workshop: What is Journalism? (Richard Just of The New Republic)
10:30 - 12:00PM [Friend 109]: Workshop: Basics of News Writing (Amanda Cormier SJP ’07 of The Columbia Spectator and Vanessa Martinez SJP ’05 of The Daily Pennsylvanian)
12:00 - 1:30PM [Wilcox]: Lunch (Guest Speaker: Princeton University Vice President Robert Durkee)
1:30 - 4:00PM: Cover a news story: Concert in Palmer Square
4:00 - 5:30PM [Friend 016]: Write news stories
5:30 - 7:00PM [Wilcox]: Dinner (Guest Speaker: Griff Witte of The Washington Post)
7:00 - 8:00PM: Newspaper team meetings (students divide into small groups to discuss articles from the reading packet)
8:00 - 10:00PM [Computer Science]: Watch The Insider
10:00 - 11:30PM [Computer Science]: Group discussion about journalistic questions raised by The Insider
11:40PM: Lights out
Sunday, July 31st
7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Scully]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30AM [Friend 109]: Workshop: Feature Writing (Eileen Shim SJP ’07 of The Yale Daily News, Aliyyah Camp SJP ’08 of Seventeen magazine, and Brianda Reyes SJP ’09 of The Amherst Student)
10:30 - 12:00PM [Friend 109]: Workshop: New Media (Katie Zavadski SJP ’08 of The Harvard Crimson, Chan Sethi Princeton ’07, Melisa Gao Princeton ’06, and Hojung Lee SJP ’08 of The Harvard Crimson)
12:00 - 1:30PM [Wilcox]: Lunch (College Admissions Discussion: How to Choose the Right School: Greg Mancini)
1:30 - 5:30PM [Friend 109]: Workshop: Television Journalism (Melvin McCray of ABC News)
5:30 - 7:00PM [Wilcox]: Dinner (Speaker: Sociology Professor Miguel Centeno)
7:00 - 8:00PM: Newspaper team meetings
8:00 - 10:00PM [Friend 109]: Workshop: How Journalists Use and Misuse Statistics (Computer Science Professor Brian Kernighan)
10:00 - 11:30PM [Friend 109]: Ethical Dilemmas: Discussion of a series of dilemmas that journalists have faced
11:40PM: Lights out
Monday, August 1st
7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Scully]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast (Guest Speaker: Anthropology Professor Carolyn Rouse)
9:00 - 1:30PM [Friend 109]: Practice SAT
1:30 - 3:00PM [Friend 108]: Lunch (Guest Speaker: Athelia Knight, formerly of The Washington Post)
3:00 - 4:00PM [Friend 109]: Meeting with Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman
4:00 - 7:00PM: Cover feature stories in small groups
7:00 - 8:30PM [Friend 109]: Dinner (Guest Speaker: Politics Professor Stan Katz)
8:30 - 9:30PM: Newspaper team meetings
9:30 - 11:00PM [Friend]: Workshop: Covering Breaking News (Brian Rokus of CNN)
11:10PM: Lights out
Tuesday, August 2nd
5:45AM: Wake-up
6:30AM: Bus departs for New York
9:00 - 10:30AM: Tour of The New York Times
11:00 - 12:30PM: Tour of The Daily Beast
1:00 - 2:30PM: Tour of CNN
2:30 - 7:00PM: Report investigative story
7:00PM: Bus departs New York
8:30 - 9:00PM [Friend]: Dinner
9:00 - 11:30PM [Friend 016]: Begin writing investigative story
11:40PM: Lights out
Wednesday, August 3rd
7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Scully]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast (Guest Speaker: English Professor John Fleming)
9:00 - 10:30AM [Friend 109]: Workshop: Opinion Writing (Ben Crair of The Daily Beast, Walter Griffin SJP ’05 of The Daily Princetonian, and Katie Zavadski SJP ’08 of The Harvard Crimson)
10:30 - 12:30PM [Friend 016]: Write op-eds
12:30 - 2:00PM [Wilcox]: Lunch (College Admissions Discussion: How to Put Together a Strong Application: Greg Mancini)
2:00 – 3:00 [Friend 016]: Continue writing op-ed pieces and other stories
3:00 - 4:00PM [Friend 109]: Meeting with Princeton Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye
4:00 - 5:30PM [Friend 109]: Workshop: Sports Journalism (Maria Guardado SJP ’09 of The Yale Daily News)
5:45PM: Depart for Trenton
7:00PM: Cover Baseball Game: Trenton Thunder vs Akron Aeros
10:30PM: Bus departs Trenton
11:00 - 12:00AM [Friend 016]: Write sports stories
12:10: Lights out
Thursday, August 4th
7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Scully]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast (Guest Speaker: Woodrow Wilson School Dean Christina Paxton)
9:00 - 10:30AM [Friend 109]: Workshop: Foreign Correspondence (Brian Rokus of CNN)
10:30 - 12:00PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: How to Find an Internship (Michael Koike and Marion Smallwood SJP ’07)
12:00 - 1:30PM [Wilcox]: Lunch (Guest Speaker: Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times)
2:00 - 4:30PM [Friend 016]: Continue writing stories
4:00 – 6:00PM [Friend 109]: Journalism and the Law (Rich Tucker)
6:00 - 7:30PM [Friend 108]: Dinner (College Admissions Discussion: How to Apply for Financial Aid: Greg Mancini, Marion Smallwood SJP ’07, Amanda Cormier SJP ’07, and Katie Zavadski SJP ‘08)
7:00 - 11:30PM [Friend 016]: Continue writing stories
11:40PM: Lights out
Friday, August 5th
7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Scully]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 8:30AM [Friend 108]: Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30AM [Friend 016]: Writing time
9:30 - 11:00AM [Friend 109]: Review of SAT scores with Princeton Review
11:00 - 12:00PM [Friend 109]: Meeting with Princeton Politics Professor Robert George
12:00 - 1:30PM [Friend 109]: Lunch (Guest Speaker: Philosophy Professor Kwame Appiah)
1:30 - 4:30PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Writing Movie Reviews (Noy Thrupkaew of The American Prospect)
4:30 – 6:00PM [Friend 108]: Dinner
6:30 - 9:30PM: Movie at Garden Theater
9:30 - 11:30PM [Friend 016]: Write movie reviews
11:40PM: Lights out
Saturday, August 6th
8:00AM: Wake-up
8:45AM [Scully]: Meet to walk to Friend
9:00 - 10:30AM [Friend 109]: Workshop: Writing Personal Narratives (Asmaa Rimawi SJP ’09, and Alexandria Sharpe SJP ’09)
10:30 - 11:00AM [Friend 016]: Begin writing personal narratives
11:00 – 12:30PM [Friend 109]: Budget: Decide on placement of stories in paper and discuss staff editorial
12:30 - 1:30PM [Friend 109]: Lunch
1:30 - 3:00PM [Friend 006]: Panel Discussion: Alumni of Summer Journalism Program on How to Navigate College and the Application Process
Aliyyah Camp, SJP Class of 2008, University of Pennsylvania Class of 2014
Amanda Cormier, SJP Class of 2007, Columbia Class of 2012
Walter Griffin, SJP Class of 2009, Princeton Class of 2014
Maria Guardado, SJP Class of 2009, Yale Class of 2014
Hojung Lee, SJP Class of 2008, Harvard Class of 2014
Vanessa Martinez, SJP Class of 2005, University of Pennsylvania Class of 2011
Stacey Menjivar, SJP Class of 2009, Princeton Class of 2014
Brianda Reyes, SJP Class of 2009, Amherst Class of 2014
Asmaa Rimawi, SJP Class of 2009, Harvard Class of 2014
Tasnim Shamma, SJP Class of 2006, Princeton Class of 2011
Alexandria Sharpe, SJP Class of 2009, Brown Class of 2014
Eileen Shim, SJP Class of 2007, Yale Class of 2012
Marion Smallwood, SJP Class of 2007, University of Pennsylvania Class of 2012
Katie Zavadski, SJP Class of 2008, Harvard Class of 2013
Laura Cheng, SJP Class of 2009, Yale Class of 2014
Mario Rosser, SJP Class of 2008, Columbia Class of 2013
Andrew Boryga, SJP Class of 2008, Cornell Class of 2013
3:00 - 12:30AM [Friend]: Production: Begin editing articles and laying out paper
12:40AM: Lights out
Sunday, August 7th
8:00AM: Wake-up
8:45AM [Scully]: Meet to walk to Friend
9:00 - 5:30PM [Friend]: Production: Finish editing articles, continue laying out paper, write headlines and captions
5:30 - 7:00PM [Friend Lawn]: BBQ
7:00 - 11:00PM [Friend 016]: Production: Copy edit pages
11:00 - 2:00AM [Friend 109]: Journalism Games
2:10AM: Lights out
Monday, August 8th
9:00AM: Wake-up
10:00 - 12:00PM [Scully]: Exit interviews and evaluations
12:00 - 1:30PM [Friend Convocation Room]: Closing Banquet
3:00PM: Depart campus