Fresno State's Journalist of Color program awarded major grant

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- For astir 3 years, The Journalist of Color Program has been helping students get a unsocial acquisition learning astir the industry.

Jazmin Alvarado is 1 of 18 students successful the program. She says it has been life-changing.

" If determination is 1 happening the programme has done, it's reinforced that I privation to write. I privation to bash journalism,"

The Institute for Media and Public Trust astatine Fresno State established the programme successful 2021 to mentor and bid aspiring journalists.

The programme besides aims to foster diverseness and inclusion successful journalism.

"It's important for the full assemblage to beryllium reflected successful the journalism that we have," Institute for Media and Public Trust Executive Director Jim Boren said.

Alvarado was portion of the archetypal cohort arsenic a High School Senior and has stayed committed to the program.

She says her acquisition has been 1 of a kind.

"I've done enactment successful print, broadcast, and this twelvemonth we are focusing connected podcasts and radio," Alvardo said.

Her clip successful the programme is besides helping her excel astatine Fresno State.

She is presently a sophomore majoring successful Broadcast Journalism and a News Editor astatine the Collegian.

"This is my favourite portion astir College. I emotion the Collegian," Alvarado said.

As a arrogant Latina, she says that practice matters and appreciates the program's ngo of supporting divers journalists.

" It's not each time you spot a Latina connected TV, and with much generations successful Fresno, it's truthful important we get to amusement them that determination are radical similar them who tin marque it," Alvarado said.

Boren says it's encouraging to spot young, motivated journalists who privation to marque a difference.

The programme was precocious awarded a $201,000 California Endowment grant, helping it turn and enactment much students.

Students are paid $300 monthly during the world twelvemonth and tin enactment successful the programme for up to 5 years.

High School oregon College students funny successful the programme tin present use for the 4th cohort starting successful the Fall.

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