Calling All High School StudentsÂ
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Apply to The Daily’s in person Breaking News Simulation!
Deadline to Apply: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024
(don’t worry, it’s short!)
This year, The Daily will be hosting an inaugural in-person breaking news simulation at the Lorry Lokey Stanford Daily Building at 456 Panama Mall on Saturday, Jan. 11. This opportunity is for local students. Lunch and merch will be provided.
During the simulation, you have the opportunity to:
- Work with fellow aspiring high school journalists to report on a breaking news scenario.
- Put your journalism knowledge into practice in a rare opportunity to report live.
- Receive feedback from The Daily’s experienced editors.
- Get a tour of The Daily’s office and learn about our newsroom.
- Have a lot of fun!
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The cost of the simulation is $300.
Note: Students are responsible for arranging transportation to campus. Additionally, students will be required to submit a COVID-19 vaccination record, a negative COVID test within 72 hours of the event and a medical liability form.
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About The Daily’s Winter Workshops
(The deadline to apply to the 2024-25 programs has already passed.)
Join us for our annual all-remote winter workshops! This year, we will be offering three programs: Journalism, Tech and Multimedia. The programs run from Dec. 16, 2024 to Jan. 11, 2025 with a week off for Christmas. We’ll also be offering an in-person day on Jan. 11, 2025 for local students!
In our Journalism Program, we’ll teach high schoolers the fundamentals through real-world reporting assignments. Some writers may even get the opportunity to publish their work on The Stanford Daily’s website as they receive one-on-one guidance from Daily editors in weekly check-in meetings and lessons.
Even if you’ve done a program with us before, you’re sure to learn new skills, encounter new challenges, and ultimately level up your journalistic toolkit! We have all-new content and guest speakers with fresh and exciting perspectives to bring to the table.
For our Tech Workshop, no coding experience is required. All you need to participate is access to a computer with Internet connection — any software or tools we will use are freely available.
Over the course of the program, participants will develop an understanding of how web development is integrated into modern-day newsrooms, including: how to set up your own coding environment, how The Daily’s own website and mobile apps are organized and operated, an intro to common web development tools, HTML & CSS, JavaScript, how to create beautiful data visualizations and interactives using Flourish, an overview of basic programming logic and techniques, how programming is being used at publications today, how our data/tech teams work with editorial to enhance coverage, how bias manifests in journalism tech and how it can be addressed, what working in software development can look like and what terms like frontend, backend, React, Express, Mongo, Node, npm, yarn (and many more!) mean.
In our Multimedia Workshop, participants will learn the technical and non-technical components of producing high-quality podcast, photo and video journalism, including how to conduct remote video and audio interviews, editing, scripting and more. Mid-way through the workshop, students will be encouraged to team up on final projects using the skills they’ve learned along the way, building up to a project showcase at the program’s end. This is an introductory-level course led by our top editors in The Daily’s multimedia sections. No equipment is required to participate, besides access to a computer and phone.
Through our multimedia workshop, we help high schoolers develop multimedia projects, with the possibility of getting their work published on The Stanford Daily’s website as they receive one-on-one guidance from Daily editors in weekly check-in meetings and lessons. There will also be live weekly webinars with speakers including visiting Stanford journalism professors. We immerse participants in the experience through a dedicated Slack workspace where communication is regular, as editors guide participants through their work individually on a day-to-day basis.
This year, The Daily will be hosting an inaugural in-person breaking news simulation at the Lorry Lokey Stanford Daily Building at 456 Panama Mall on Saturday, Jan. 11. This opportunity is for local students. Lunch and merch will be provided.
These workshops are open to participants of all skill levels — our editors will work with you at whatever pace you’re comfortable with and get you up to speed regardless of your level of experience.
Journalism Workshop
Over the course of the three-week journalism workshop, participants will get hands-on experience in the end-to-end process of news reporting, including:
- How to find stories and assess their newsworthiness
- How to identify and interview sources
- How to craft well-structured, interesting news pieces
- How to write breaking newsÂ
- How to navigate the ethics of community reporting and report on sensitive subjects
In addition to writing, students will have the opportunity to learn multimedia and digital skills ultimately gaining exposure to the complete, real, end-to-end experience of working in journalism.Â
Our program gives students the skills that will prepare them for college journalism and up their game in high school as well. Our work is complemented by social activities: We want you to have the opportunity to connect with fellow participants and Daily staffers!
This is a tuition-based program with full and partial need-based aid offered to all accepted applicants under an honor system (see below for more details).
Participants are assigned to small groups for the duration of the program, which allows them to work closely with Daily staffers while getting to know the other participants in the program.Â
They’ll be immersed in the program through a dedicated Slack workspace where editors guide participants through their work on a day-to-day basis and participants can get to know each other. This makes it easy for any given participant to get help from a Daily staffer at virtually any time, and for participants to form a network of other high schoolers interested in journalism.Â
We’re also offering our Tech Bootcamp and Multimedia Workshop this winter. This means participants will be able to apply to and participate in these workshops alongside the Journalism Workshop, which can enable cross-collaborative work in journalism tech and multimedia journalism. Cross-collaborative projects could include photo coverage of a feature article, or data visualizations to accompany statistics-based articles. You do NOT need to participate in the Journalism Workshop to participate in the Tech Bootcamp or Multimedia Workshop.
This programs aims to prepare participants for college journalism through real work experience.
Each week, participants will attend workshops on different aspects of journalism, led by the program’s managing editors, and they’ll get to participate in live weekly webinars featuring professionals from the field. In the past, speakers have included Stanford professor and former Washington Post Jerusalem Bureau Chief Janine Zacharia, The Atlantic CEO/former WIRED editor-in-chief (and Daily alum!) Nicholas Thompson, and Stanford professor and former board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors Cheryl Phillips.
Participants will meet with their beats on a weekly basis to go over the content from that week’s workshop and speaker event, and they’ll claim assignments to work on throughout the week — contacting sources, conducting interviews, drafting articles and working through edits, just like college Daily staffers. And they’ll have plenty of help along the way: Participants will meet with their editors in separate one-on-one meetings, and desk editors will check in regularly to support participants through each stage of the process.
Between scheduled events and independent projects, participants will be expected to commit at least seven hours to the program each week, but our editors will also be happy to support any participants interested in tackling additional projects and going above and beyond.
The workshop will be held from Dec. 16, 2024 to Jan. 11, 2025. DON’T WORRY if you cannot attend all of the remote training sessions. We will share extensive notes and record the training sessions (participants will not be recorded) to ensure resources are accessible to our participants. It is okay to participate in The Daily’s workshop in conjunction with school and other extracurriculars, as you can shape your own schedule in our program.
Participants will meet with their beats on a weekly basis to go over the content from that week’s workshop and speaker event, and they’ll claim assignments to work on throughout the week — contacting sources, conducting interviews, drafting articles and working through edits, just like college Daily staffers. And they’ll have plenty of help along the way: participants will meet with their editors in separate one-on-one meetings, and desk editors will check in regularly to support participants through each stage of the process.
Between scheduled events and independent projects, participants will be expected to commit at least seven hours to the program each week, but our editors will also be happy to support any participants interested in tackling additional projects and going above and beyond.
Prices are either per program, or we offer discounts for bundling multiple programs together. Payments are accepted via Paypal. This goes toward The Daily’s operational costs. If participants have incomplete projects left upon the program’s official end date, we often will work with them to see those projects to completion at no additional cost.
Our prices are as follows:
– Three-week Journalism Program: $1,500
– In-person day: $250
– Three-week Journalism Program WITH three-week Multimedia Workshop: $2,800
– Three-week Journalism Program WITH three-week Tech Workshop: $2,800
– Three-week Journalism Program WITH three-week Multimedia Workshop AND three-week Tech Workshop: $4,000
We have both partial and full need-based scholarships available to all students. Proof of income may be required upon acceptance. We are committed to offering financial aid scholarships to ALL accepted students with need, and you won’t need to fill out any complicated financial forms to enable this process. If either a partial or full need-based scholarship would make a difference in helping you participate in our program, simply indicate your preferred amount in the program application and we will work to meet everyone’s need in full.Â
If you have any questions related to financial aid or would like to meet with us to discuss options, please don’t hesitate to email [email protected]. We are committed to working with you to put together a scholarship package that meets your needs.
Feel free to email coo@stanforddaily.com with any additional questions!
Tech Bootcamp
The Stanford Daily is offering its three-week all-remote Tech Bootcamp, open to high school students interested in web and software development for news media! No coding experience is required. All you need to participate is access to a computer with internet connection — any software or tools we will use are freely available. It is okay to participate in The Daily’s bootcamp and other extracurriculars concurrently, as you can shape your own schedule in our program.
Over the course of the three-week program, participants will develop an understanding of how web development is integrated into modern-day newsrooms, including:
- Intro to common web development tools, HTML & CSS, JavaScript
- How to create beautiful data visualizations and interactives
- Overview of basic programming logic and techniques
- How programming is being used at publications today
- How our data/tech teams work with editorial to enhance coverage
- What working in software development can look like
- Intro to common development tools like git, GitHub, the command line
- How to host a website on the internet
- What the heck terms like frontend, backend, react, express, mongo, node, npm, yarn (and many more!) actually mean
This is a paid program with full and partial need-based aid offered to all accepted applicants under an honor system (see below for more detail).
We immerse participants in the experience through a dedicated Slack workspace where communication is regular, as instructors guide participants through their work individually on a day-to-day basis. Our work is complemented by social activities: We want you to have the opportunity to connect with fellow participants and Daily staffers!
This is an introductory-level course led by our editors, alongside project leaders on The Daily’s Tech team. Members of The Daily’s tech team have held prior positions with the software engineering teams at The Washington Post, The L.A. Times and Google, and come equipped with backgrounds in computer science and statistics.
Participants will be expected to put in at least seven hours of work each week, but they can work as many hours as they’d like, as our instructors are always on call to help with participants’ projects.
Each week, we host workshops with lecture material that will form the basis of focused projects. Participants will meet in small groups with their assigned section leaders for activity-based reviews of lecture topics. Participants will meet with their section leaders in separate one-on-one meetings each week as well. There will also be guest webinars featuring professionals from the field.
Our instructors are on call throughout each week, both to aid participants in their projects and to help participants with any issues they encounter. We will also host office hours staffed by our instructors for participants to get as much feedback and assistance as needed.
We work with all of our participants in a dedicated Slack workspace that makes it easy for any given participant to get help from a Daily section leader at virtually any time.
The workshop will be held from Dec. 16, 2024 to Jan. 11, 2025. DON’T WORRY if you cannot attend all of the remote training sessions.Â
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We will share extensive notes and record the training sessions (participants will not be recorded) to ensure resources are accessible to our participants. We will also host multiple live sessions each week to accommodate varying schedules. It is okay to participate in The Daily’s workshop in conjunction with school and other extracurriculars, as you can shape your own schedule in our program.
Prices are either per program, or we offer discounts for bundling multiple programs together. Payments are accepted via Paypal. This goes toward The Daily’s operational costs. If participants have incomplete projects left upon the program’s official end date, we often will work with them to see those projects to completion at no additional cost.
Our prices are as follows:
– Three-week Tech Workshop: $1,500
– Three-week Tech Workshop WITH three-week Journalism Program: $2,800
– Three-week Tech Workshop WITH three-week Multimedia Workshop: $2,800
– Three-week Tech Workshop WITH three-week Journalism Program AND three-week Multimedia Workshop: $4,000
We have both partial and full need-based scholarships available to all students. Proof of income may be required upon acceptance. We are committed to offering financial aid scholarships to ALL accepted students with need, and you won’t need to fill out any complicated financial forms to enable this process. If either a partial or full need-based scholarship would make a difference in helping you participate in our program, simply indicate your preferred amount in the program application and we will work to meet everyone’s need in full.Â
If you have any questions related to financial aid or would like to meet with us to discuss options, please don’t hesitate to email [email protected]. We are committed to working with you to put together a scholarship package that meets your needs.
Feel free to email [email protected] with any additional questions!
Multimedia Workshop
Over the course of the three-week program, participants will learn the technical and non-technical components of producing high-quality podcast, photo and video journalism, including how to conduct remote video and audio interviews, editing, scripting and more. Students will develop final projects using the skills they’ve learned along the way, building up to a project showcase at the program’s end.Â
This is an introductory-level course led by our top editors in The Daily’s multimedia sections. NO EQUIPMENT is required to participate, besides access to a computer and phone.
Through our multimedia workshop, we help high schoolers develop multimedia projects, with the possibility of getting their work published on The Stanford Daily’s website as they receive one-on-one guidance from Daily editors in weekly check-in meetings and lessons. There will also be live weekly webinars with speakers. In the past they have included visiting Stanford journalism professor Geri Migielicz, who has received the Emmy Award and Pulitzer Prize for her work. We immerse participants in the experience through a dedicated Slack workspace where communication is regular, as editors guide participants through their work individually on a day-to-day basis.
Participants will develop a sense for what is newsworthy, what tools make multimedia journalism more meaningful to audiences, what ethical principles to keep in mind and how to get their work published for real-world experience that will prepare them for college journalism and up their game in high school as well. Our work is complemented by social activities: We want you to have the opportunity to connect with fellow participants and Daily staffers!
Each week, participants meet with their assigned editors and small group beat. Participants will meet with the editors in separate one-on-one meetings each week as well. At these meetings, participants will reflect on the content from that week’s lesson and speaker event. There are also weekly training/workshop sessions and webinars featuring professionals from the field, as well as office hours for students seeking technical help with editing.
Editors are on call throughout each week, aiding participants in their work with the possible opportunity to be published on stanforddaily.com for audiences to view. This model prepares participants for college journalism through real work experience.
We work with all of our participants in a dedicated Slack workspace that makes it so easy for any given participant to get help from a Daily staffer at virtually any time.
The workshop will be held from Dec. 16, 2024 to Jan. 11, 2025. DON’T WORRY if you cannot attend all of the remote training sessions.Â
We understand circumstances are still rapidly changing for many of us, and we will take measures such as sharing extensive notes and recording the training sessions (participants will not be recorded) to ensure resources are accessible to our participants. It is okay to participate in The Daily’s workshop and other extracurriculars concurrently, as you can shape your own schedule in our program.
Prices are either per program, or we offer discounts for bundling multiple programs together. Payments are accepted via Paypal. This goes toward The Daily’s operational costs. If participants have incomplete projects left upon the program’s official end date, we often will work with them to see those projects to completion at no additional cost.
Our prices are as follows:
– Three-week Multimedia Workshop: $1,500
– Three-week Multimedia Workshop WITH three-week Journalism Program: $2,800
– Three-week Multimedia Workshop WITH three-week Tech Workshop: $2,800
– Three-week Multimedia Workshop WITH three-week Journalism Program AND three-week Tech Workshop: $4,000
We have both partial and full need-based scholarships available to all students. Proof of income may be required upon acceptance. We are committed to offering financial aid scholarships to ALL accepted students with need, and you won’t need to fill out any complicated financial forms to enable this process. If either a partial or full need-based scholarship would make a difference in helping you participate in our program, simply indicate your preferred amount in the program application and we will work to meet everyone’s need in full.Â
If you have any questions related to financial aid or would like to meet with us to discuss options, please don’t hesitate to email [email protected]. We are committed to working with you to put together a scholarship package that meets your needs.
Feel free to email [email protected] with any additional questions!
In Person Breaking News Simulation
This year, The Daily will be hosting an inaugural in-person breaking news simulation at the Lorry Lokey Stanford Daily Building at 456 Panama Mall on Saturday, Jan. 11. This opportunity is for local students. Lunch and merch will be provided.
If accepted into the workshop, students that sign up for the simulation before Nov. 22 will be charged a discounted fee of $250 in addition to the cost of the workshop. Once workshops begin, there will also be another opportunity to sign up for the simulation for a fee of $300.
Students are responsible for arranging transportation to campus. Additionally, students will be required to submit a COVID-19 vaccination record, a negative COVID test within 72 hours of the event and a medical liability form.
Click here to access the application for all three programs
(don’t worry, it’s short!)
Rolling applications and admissions.Â
We will evaluate applications on a rolling basis and get back to you with a decision/next steps as soon as possible.
Note: The Daily cannot provide feedback as to why an individual application was rejected. We receive a high influx of outstanding applicants, and have only a limited number of spaces in the program. Looking forward, The Daily will have lots of additional opportunities to participate in future programs with us, both during the school year and in the summertime.