Princeton University

Below is the schedule for the 2012 program. Though the schedule varies from year to year, this will give prospective students a sense of what the program is like.

 

Friday, August 3
Students arrive throughout the day

4:00 - 5:00PM [Whitman Common Room]: Introduction and fire drill

5:00 - 6:00PM: Campus tour
6:00 - 7:00PM [Wilcox]: Dinner

7:00 - 8:30PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: What is Journalism? (Richard Just of Newsweek)

8:30 - 10:30PM [Friend 108]: A full-group discussion on why this program exists
10:30 - 11:30PM [Friend 108]: Discussion of the rest of the week’s activities
11:40PM: Lights out

 

Saturday, August 4
7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Fisher]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast (Guest Speaker: Woodrow Wilson School Professor Stanley Katz)

9:00 - 10:30AM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Political Journalism (Marin Cogan of GQ)

10:30 - 12:00PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Introduction to News Writing (Amanda Cormier SJP 2007 of The Columbia Daily Spectator, Liz Gonzalez SJP 2010 of Bowdoin College, Tonya Riley SJP 2010 of The Brown Daily Herald, Melina Torres SJP 2010 of Yale University)

12:00PM: Bus departs for Ewing, NJ

1:00 - 3:00PM: Cover townhall meeting with Congressman Rush Holt
3:30 - 5:00PM [Friend 016]: Write stories about townhall
5:00 - 6:00PM [Friend 108]: Dinner (Guest Speaker I: Eliza Gray of The New Republic)

6:00 - 7:00PM [Friend 108]: Dinner (Guest Speaker II: Griff Witte of The Washington Post)
7:00 - 8:00PM: Newspaper team meetings
8:00 - 10:30PM [Friend Bowl]: Watch The Insider
10:30 - 11:30PM [Friend Bowl]: Discuss journalistic questions raised by The Insider
11:40PM: Lights out

 

7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Fisher]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast (College Admissions Discussion: How to Choose the Right School: Katie Zavadski SJP 2008 of The Harvard Crimson & Jancey Taveras SJP 2009 of Cornell University)
9:00 - 10:30AM [Friend 108]: Workshop: New Media (Amanda Cormier, Chan Sethi, Eileen Shim SJP 2007 of The Yale Daily News)

10:30 - 12:00PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: How to Cover Breaking News (Brian Rokus of CNN)
12:00 - 1:30PM [Wilcox]: Lunch (Guest Speaker: History Professor Susan Naquin)

1:30 - 2:30PM [Friend 108]: College Admissions Discussion: How to Put Together a Strong Application (Katie Zavadski & Jancey Taveras)

2:30 - 5:30PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Television Journalism (Melvin McCray of ABC News)

5:30 - 7:00PM [Wilcox]: Dinner (Guest Speaker: May Cheng, health care policy expert)
7:00 - 8:00PM: Newspaper team meetings
8:00 - 9:30PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Feature Writing (Eileen Shim, Mariya Ilyas SJP 2008 of The Bowdoin Orient, Brenda Duman SJP 2010 of Yale University)

9:30 - 11:30PM [Friend 108]: Discussion of ethical dilemmas that journalists have faced
11:40PM: Lights out

 

 

7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Fisher]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast ( College Admissions Discussion: How to Apply for Financial Aid: Katie Zavadski & Jancey Taveras)

9:00 - 1:30PM [Friend 108]: Practice SAT

1:30 - 2:30PM [Friend 108]: Lunch (Guest Speaker: Economics Professor Harvey Rosen)

2:30 - 6:30PM: Cover feature stories

6:30 - 8:00PM [Friend 108]: Dinner (Guest Speaker: English Professor Daphne Brooks)

8:00 - 9:00PM: Newspaper team meetings

9:00 - 11:30PM [Friend 016]: Write feature stories

11:40PM Lights out

 

7:00AM: Wake-up

7:45AM [Fisher]: Meet to walk to breakfast

8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast (Guest Speaker: History Professor David Bell)

9:00 - 11:00AM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Opinion Writing (Simon Van Zuylen-Wood of The New Republic)

11:00 - 12:00PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Covering the Economy (Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times)

12:00 - 1:30PM [Wilcox]: Lunch (Guest Speaker: Athelia Knight of The Washington Post)

1:30 - 3:00PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Covering the President (Eli Saslow of The Washington Post)

3:00 - 4:30PM [Friend 016]: Write op-eds

4:30 - 5:30PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Sports Journalism ( Dick Friedman of Sports Illustrated)

5:30PM: Bus leaves for Trenton

7:00PM: Cover baseball game: Trenton Thunder vs. Reading Phillies

10:00PM: Bus leaves for Princeton

10:30 - 12:00AM [Friend 016]: Write sports stories

12:10AM Lights out

 

5:45AM: Wake-up

6:30AM: Bus leaves for New York

9:00 - 10:30AM: Tour of Newsweek/The Daily Beast

11:00 - 12:30PM: Tour of The New York Times

12:30 - 1:00PM: Lunch

1:00 - 2:30PM: Tour of CNN

2:30 - 7:30PM: Report investigative story

7:30PM: Bus leaves for Princeton

9:00 - 9:30PM [Friend 108]: Dinner

9:30 - 11:00PM [Friend 016]: Begin writing investigative story

11:10PM: Lights out

 

7:00AM: Wake-up

7:45 [Fisher]: Meet to walk to breakfast

8:00 - 9:00AM [Wilcox]: Breakfast (Guest Speaker: English Professor John Fleming)

9:00 - 10:30AM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Foreign Correspondence for Television (Brian Rokus of CNN)

10:30 - 12:00PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Movie Criticism (Noy Thrupkaew of The American Prospect)

12:00 - 1:30PM [Wilcox]: Lunch Speaker: Foreign Correspondence for Magazines (Laura Secor of The New Yorker)

1:30 - 3:00PM [Friend 108]: Guest Speaker: Psychology Professor Stacey Sinclair

3:00 - 5:00PM [Friend 108]: Work on articles

5:00 - 6:30PM [Friend 108]: Dinner (Guest Speaker: English Professor Kristin Dombek)

6:30 - 9:00PM: Movie at Garden Theater
9:00 - 11:30PM [Friend 016]: Write movie reviews

11:40PM: Lights out

 

Friday, August 10
7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Fisher]: Meet to walk to breakfast
8:00 - 9:00AM [Friend 108]: Breakfast (Guest Speaker: Anthropology Professor Carolyn Rouse)
9:00 - 10:30AM [Friend 108]: Workshop: The Art of Editing (Rachel Morris of The New Republic)

10:30 - 12:00PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Writing for Intellectual Magazines (John Judis of The New Republic)

12:00 - 1:30PM [Friend 108]: Lunch (Guest Speaker: Philosophy Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah)

1:30 - 3:00PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Journalism and the Law (Rich Tucker, Melisa Gao, Chan Sethi)

3:00 - 4:30PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Writing Personal Narratives (Lisette Bonilla SJP 2002, Yared Portillo SJP 2010 of Swarthmore College, Tashi Shuler-Drakes SJP 2010 of Mount Holyoke College, Alfonso Toro SJP 2010 of Yale University)

4:30 - 6:00PM [Friend 016]: Begin writing personal narratives

6:00 - 7:30PM [Friend 108]: Dinner (Guest Speaker: Economics Professor Uwe Reinhardt)

7:30 - 11:30PM [Friend 016]: Continue writing articles

11:40PM: Lights out

 

Saturday, August 11
7:00AM: Wake-up
7:45AM [Fisher]: Meet to walk to Friend
8:00 - 9:00AM [Friend 108]: Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00AM [Friend 108]: Review of SAT scores with Princeton Review

10:00 - 12:00PM [Friend 108]: Budget: Decide on placement of stories in paper and discuss staff editorial

12:00 - 1:30PM [Friend 108]: Lunch (Guest Speaker: Woodrow Wilson School Researcher Rushda Majeed)

1:30 - 6:30PM [Friend 016]: Continue writing articles

6:30 - 8:00PM [Friend 108]: Dinner (Guest Speaker: History Professor Erika Milam)

8:00 - 1:00AM [Friend 016]: Edit articles and begin laying out paper

1:10AM: Lights out

 

Sunday, August 12
8:00AM: Wake-up
8:45AM [Fisher]: Meet to walk to Friend

9:00 - 1:00PM [Friend 016]: Finish editing articles, continue laying out paper, write headlines and captions

1:00 - 1:30PM [Friend 108]: Lunch

1:30 - 3:00PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Applying for Internships (Michael Koike, Marion Smallwood SJP 2007 of the University of Pennsylvania)
3:00 - 5:00PM [Friend 016]: Copy edit pages

5:00 - 6:30PM [Friend 108]: Workshop: Radio Journalism (Tasnim Shamma SJP 2006 of NPR)

6:30 - 10:00PM [Friend Lawn]: BBQ and Discussion: Alumni of the Summer Journalism Program on How to Navigate College and the Application Process****

10:00 - 1:00AM [Friend 108]: Journalism Games
1:10AM: Lights out

 

Monday, August 13
8:00AM: Wake-up
9:00 - 11:30AM [Fisher]: Exit interviews and evaluations
11:30 - 1:00PM [Campus Club]: Closing Banquet
2:30PM: Depart campus

**Alumni attending the event:

Lisette Bonilla, SJP Class of 2002, University of Virginia Class of 2007

Vanessa Martinez, SJP Class of 2005, Penn Class of 2010

Tasnim Shamma, SJP Class of 2006, Princeton Class of 2011

Krystal Valentin, SJP Class of 2007, Princeton Class of 2012

Amanda Cormier, SJP Class of 2007, Columbia Class of 2012

Marion Smallwood, SJP Class of 2007, Penn Class of 2013

Eileen Shim, SJP Class of 2007, Yale Class of 2012

Mariya Ilyas, SJP Class of 2008, Bowdoin Class of 2013

Katie Zavadski, SJP Class of 2008, Harvard Class of 2013

Jancey Taveras, SJP Class of 2009, Cornell Class of 2014

Bianca Dennis, SJP Class of 2010, Columbia Class of 2015

Brenda Duman, SJP Class of 2010, Yale Class of 2015

Tonya Riley, SJP Class of 2010, Brown Class of 2015

Tashi Shuler-Drakes, SJP Class of 2010, Mount Holyoke Class of 2015

Alfonso Toro, SJP Class of 2010, Yale Class of 2015

Liz Gonzalez, SJP Class of 2010, Bowdoin Class of 2015

Melina Torres, SJP Class of 2010, Yale Class of 2015

Yared Portillo, SJP Class of 2010, Swarthmore Class of 2015

Farah Amjad, SJP Class of 2011, Princeton Class of 2016