Senior Branam to L.A. Times Workshop

Journalism senior Amanda Branam is one of twenty students in the nation chosen to participate in the Jim Murray Sports Journalism Workshop sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.

The three-day program in mid-May offer students an opportunity to see how a sports department operates at a major metropolitan daily newspaper, how to work a sports beat, and how to write a sports column. At the conclusion of the workshop, some students will be given paid freelance assignments at the Times.

Branam is a sports writer for the Arizona Daily Wildcat. Her assignments this year included covering the men's basketball team in the NCAA tournament.

The late Jim Murray was among the country's most admired sports writers. A Times employee for 38 years, he won the Pulitzer Prize and was named national sportswriter of the year twelve times in sixteen years, according to the newspaper. He died in 1998.

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