Staff from The New York Times and members of the UA student chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists enjoyed dinner together April 3 at a UA-area restaurant. Times staff members were in Tucson planning the January 2008 Times Student Journalism Institute.

Times staff begins planning 2008 Student Institute at UA

The Institute, sponsored by The Times and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, is an intensive training program for student journalists that will be hosted in alternate years by The University of Arizona and Florida International University. The institute is modeled on a program that The Times established for students in conjunction with the Black College Communications Association and the National Association of Black Journalists held at Dillard University in New Orleans.

The Institute's editors help students with their stories before they are posted on the Institute's Web site: http://www.nytimes-institute.com. The best pieces are printed in a newspaper produced at the end of the Institute.

During the Tucson visit, New York Times staff members visited classes, planned logistics for the 2008 Institute and had dinner with members of the UA's National Association of Hispanic Journalists chapter, which formed in January.

To qualify to participate in The New York Times Student Journalism Institute, students must be NAHJ members, have completed one semester at a student newspaper or major newspaper, be in good academic standing and write a 500-word essay about being a journalist.

Nancy Sharkey (left) listens with NAHJ member Dalina Castellanos to a talk given during Times staff members' visit to Tucson April 3.

Alan Robertazzi (right) introduces himself to NAHJ members, including Fernanda Echávarri, at an April 3 dinner. Robertazzi will work with students on page design at the Times Student Journalism Institute.

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