As the Unity Outreach workers yell “Anybody Home?” I’m wondering, “What did I get myself into?”

Leon Hendrix III learns the value of humility when his editors axe his story.

I can say that having one-on-one time with Jill Abramson is like an aspiring basketball player playing one-on-one with Michael Jordan.

Call me clichéd, but whenever I hear a reference to New Orleans I immediately think of lacy cast-iron balconies, the sound of a raspy brass band, crimson crawfish and “STELLAAAA!”

If you heard someone coughing at the beginning of the Institute, it was probably me.

Follow a young journalist as he eats food on the run.

It was past midnight and we had just finished in the newsroom when my housemate Justin Phillips came in the townhouse with a screwdriver and a very concerned look on his face.

This was lunch on the first day of the New York Times Student Journalism Institute, and already we were stuffed and nodding off.

The program is primarily a two-week journalism boot camp for current students and recent graduates from universities from all over the country. And each one of us seemed anxious, excited, and a little nervous to get things started.

Thanks to the New York Times Student Journalism Institute, 22 students are getting the chance to learn about multiple mediums of journalism.
Staff members from the New York Times Co. presented five specialties offered at this year’s newsroom: video journalism, Web production, copy editing, page design and wire editing.
While several presenters spoke about the different opportunities [...]

It’s a bit overly dramatic, but today feels like the first day of the rest of our lives. There’s a kind of energy here that I haven’t seen very much, if ever before.

Of Monday’s five sessions, Interviewing Techniques and Finding stories on a new beat was the most informative. LaSharah Bunting, Trymaine Lee and Kortney Stringer took turns touching on subjects ranging from how to break the ice on an interview to how to be more like a sponge and absorb helpful information. Left, students tune in during one of the opening workshops.

Meaghan Looram, Sarah Kramer, and Alexis “Lexi” Mainland are part of the web team for The NY Times. They are picture editors, web content producers and journalists, but today they were teachers too.