Take advantage of ANN’S Free Journalism Education Program
ANN is proud to offer members of the general public a free Journalism Education lesson series, and we encourage you to become a self-guided learner as part of our rich, professionally developed program with the opportunity to become an ANN Certified Content Contributor, or just for the purposes of self enrichment by learning core basics of news based Journalism and reporting.
FREE JOURNALISM EDUCATION PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Welcome to the world of news based Journalism!
ANN is proud to offer members of the general public a free Journalism Education lesson series, and we encourage you to become a self-guided learner as part of our rich, professionally developed program and to qualify as an ANN Certified Content Contributor.
Being a CCC allows you to help make ANN truly ‘your’ newspaper as well as ours.
Here you will learn core basics on how to become a competent or highly accomplished news and feature centered journalist in keeping with the best standards and practices of ethics based journalism.
Please note that the program includes, but does not emphasize, lessons on the development of opinion or commentary pieces, as we wish to be news centric.
You may engage in this academic experience, no matter what your age or where you live, and at your own pace. You do not need to seek ANN Certified Content Contributor (CCC) standing to take advantage of the program.
That said, without CCC training and program completion, you will not be included among the membership of our volunteer news and content providing staff.
BECOME A CERTIFIED CONTENT CONTRIBUTOR FOR ANN
For those in or around Alameda, completing all of the lessons in the program and submitting completed course work on our Google Drive, will allow you to be qualified as a “Certified Content Contributor” (CCC) for ANN, pending final approval from us.
As such, you become, in essence, a vested, volunteer news and/or feature reporter or content producer of photos, videos, and photo essays.
Students who achieve CCC standing may request to be designated as ANN JOURNALISM INTERNS etc. (see below)
As a CCC, you will have the prospect to go out, conceive of and cover Alameda focused news/feature stories on your own and submit them for publication in ANN.
If deemed newsworthy or of substantial community interest or that which serves the public good, your content will run, along with your byline.
Once a CCC you might be asked to cover a story that arises in the eyes of our editorial staff, and we hope that you will be willing to accept, as part of our spirit and mission of community service to promote public awareness of newsworthy goings on in Alameda.
You do not have to seek CCC qualification simply to gain the learning experience and power of what this free education program offers. No strings attached.
ALREADY HAVE JOURNALISM OR PR EXPERIENCE?
If you already have some kind of formal journalism training, professional experience or substantial school or other amateur Journalism backgoound – or that which is closely related (ie you have been a Public Information Officer, Communications Outreach content producer, have formal experience in PR etc) please provide a brief account of your qualifications and contact us to set up an interview to see if you are already qualified to be a CCC.
STUDENT INTERNSHIPS AND MORE
Advanced, ambitious and self motivated students from 8th grade through college or University and Grad school level, may become CCC’s and attain qualification to become ANN INTERNS for resumes, higher education applications, personal growth experience and so on.
Please note that we are not a formal accredited education institution, so we cannot offer course or unit credits. If your school allows for independent study or other such course credits, you may wish to inquire with them if or how an ANN INTERNSHIP may serve those purposes.
FOR TEACHERS, SCHOOLS, AUSD, AND COMMUNITY BASED EDUCATION ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS:
Classroom or curricular use of our copyrighted and unique Free Journalism Education Program content is free to ANY public or private school or NON PROFIT educational or public service institution, district, program or individual teacher in Alameda City.
We ask only that you inform us (see below for contact info) of your use of/inclusion of one or more of our program lessons so that we may be aware , establish a partnership and guide you if and as needed.
If you are a public or private non profit or for profit educational entity or community support organization, you may contact us for express, written permission to use our exclusive, all rights reserved material, and discuss use- licensing aspects as they might apply.
SHOW YOUR COMMINITY SPIRIT AND SUPPORT !!
ANN’s viability as a needed, objective, reliable and accurate news source depends on you!
We are grounded in the principle that the spirit of Community Volunteerism will give us enough ‘hands on deck” to provide our readers and content consumers with the quantity of quality reporting Alameda needs and deserves. We seek to minimize the distance between news producers and news consumers with our symbiotic model.
We wholeheartedly ask for your support to become a CCC and to urge those you know to become supporters through subscriptions (or donations) to our public benefit, 501 C-3 entity. .
Why just read the news, when you can write it as well?
PLEASE JOIN US to help make ANN Alameda’s premiere “GO TO” news destination .
TO APPLY TO BECOME A JOURNALISM INTERN, GO TO THE ANN HOMEPAGE AND CLICK ON THE “JOURNALISM INTERNSHIPS’ HEADER AT THE TOP OF THE ‘FREE JOURNALISM EDUCATION PROGRAM” SECTION THEN YOU JUST FILL OUT THE FORM