CABJ membes Dioni Wise and Nacarla Webb were selected to work on student projects.

CABJ shared the honors with the University of Georgia NABJ student chapter.

About 25 Carolina alumni attended the alumni reception at the convention. Alumnus Corey Brown, who works for the Louisville  Courier-Journal, organized the reception. For more coverage click here.

THE POWER OF NETWORKS

A new school year is here, and CABJ is very excited about the many opportunities and events planned for the coming months. Last year was the successful rebuilding of CABJ into an involved and active student chapter, but we are already looking ahead to bigger things. Along with more social events, industry-leading speakers and career planning workshops, CABJ will once again host the Minority Journalism Seminar in the spring. Ambitious high-school students from all over North Carolina will come to Carolina for a weekend of intensive training and experience in the work of news-editorial journalism. Working with CABJ members and local professionals, the students will produce their own newspaper from start to finish. Finally, CABJ will be working hard this semester to provide its members with opportunities to network and search for scholarships, summer internships and jobs that we all know are so important. It's never too late to join! Click the blue image on the left to find out how to join. Membership dues are only $12, and the experience and information you will gain is priceless.

If you have any more questions, please contact Amanda Rodrigues Smith or Monique Newton.

INFORMATIONAL: 2008 Minority Journalism Seminar – February 22-24!
Applications for the 2008 Minority High School Journalism Seminar are now available. The seminar will take place at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication on February 22-24, 2008. Contact the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association for additional information.

MEETING: Professional Development Workshop - October 3
Professional development. Triangle-area journalists discussed the value of internships, how students should conduct themselves in the search process and what employers expect from their interns. The panel included Anthony Wilson of WTVD-TV Raleigh/Durham, Kavita Pillai of the (Greensboro) News & Record, and Stan Chambers of The (Raleigh) News & Observer.

DISCUSSION: "Justice For All? Discrimination, Justice and the Jena Six"- September 24
On Monday, September 24 CABJ co-sponsored "Justice For All? Discrimination, Justice and the Jena Six" with the Carolina Young Decomocrats. More than a year since the events that began the story of the Jena 6. While the Louisiana Court of Appeals overturned Mychal Bell's conviction on September 16, the District Attorney has promised to appeal, and the other five students are still awaiting sentencing.The activism of students, civil rights groups, and others across the nation has captured the attention of the national press and of politicians, and has brought much-needed focus to the issue of discrimination in our justice system.

FILM SCREENING: SNEAK PREVIEW OF FILM “BANISHED” AT UNC LAW SCHOOL- September 17
In honor of Constitution Day, CABJ offered a sneak preview of "Banished," a documentary about race relations in the South. "Banished is about the racial cleansing of American Americans from Southern towns in the 19th and 20th centuries, and discusses the issue of reparations fir those events, The film will air on PBS later this year. Following the sneak preview, UNC School of Law Professor Adrienne Davis and Anita Earls, an attorney with the UNC Center for Civil Rights facilitated an audience discussion. Click here for more information on the documentary.