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Your connection to industry & member news | Oct. 24, 2024
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 | Madison Sharrock of Costal Carolina University interned at the Coastal Observer last summer through the SCPA Foundation's internship program.
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| Deadline to apply for SCPA Foundation internships & scholarship is Dec. 2 The deadline to apply for an internship or scholarship from the S.C. Press Association Foundation is Dec. 2.
The internship program provides a meaningful, hands-on training experience for students interested in news reporting, copy editing, photojournalism, advertising or visual communications.
Two or more interns are placed each summer at SCPA member newspapers. Each internship is eight weeks long and pays $4,480.
Internships are open to student journalists who attend a four-year college in South Carolina or who reside in South Carolina and attend a four-year college elsewhere. Rising juniors and seniors are eligible to apply.
The Foundation also awards one scholarship each year to an S.C. college student interested in pursuing a newspaper career. The Mundy Scholarship, worth $1,000 per academic year, is named for the Foundation's first president, the late Frank R. Mundy of the Greenwood Index-Journal. If your newspaper offers internships or other opportunities that you'd like SCPA to promote to our state's collegiate journalists and advertising students, please let us know.
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 SCPA has seen many great election guides, candidate Q&As, forums and stories, including this special edition from The Daniel Island News. Thanks for all you're doing to educate voters!
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Resources to help journalists cover the 2024 US election
The Knight Election Hub is another great resource containing more than 100 free and discounted resources for reporters and editors covering elections. There are voter guides, data sets, source lists and other helpful tools to answer questions about candidates’ backgrounds, policies, election trends and more.
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SCPA hosted retired faculty from the USC J-School last Friday.
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Freedom Forum launches multichannel advertising campaign: 'Brought to you by the first amendment'
Freedom Forum, the nation’s foremost advocate for First Amendment freedoms, recently launched “Brought to You by the First Amendment,” a $2 million dollar advertising campaign raising awareness for the everyday freedoms made possible by the First Amendment.
The campaign, which launched during Free Speech Week, kicked off on Oct. 21 with a “Life Without 1A” news takeover on USA TODAY’s homepage, among other platforms. Readers who visited the newspaper’s website encountered the news disappearing, leaving the reader with a blank page and the words “life without 1A” – a disruptive stunt to kick off the campaign. The news then reappeared with a banner ad that read, “Freedom of the press. Brought to you by the First Amendment.”
The campaign also debuted a powerful video celebrating free expression set to Jon Batiste’s “Freedom” and a voiceover from the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.
“The goal of the ‘Brought to You by the First Amendment’ campaign is to ignite a growing appreciation for the First Amendment by creatively illustrating how it applies to Americans’ everyday lives,” said Doug Neil, chief digital officer at Freedom Forum.
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South Carolina’s election officials are ready and resilient
By Isaac Cramer, executive director of the Charleston County Board of Elections, and Kim Wyman, senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, for SC Daily Gazette
When it comes to elections, disruptions tend to get the most attention. Whether it’s the risk of artificial intelligence, natural disasters, political violence, election subversion, or foreign interference, it can feel like the threats are never-ending.
Yet while early voting begins in South Carolina on Oct. 21, election officials across South Carolina have been diligently preparing for months — and, in many cases, years — to administer a safe, secure, and accurate election, no matter what threats may arise.
Across South Carolina’s 46 counties, election officials, workers, and volunteers work tirelessly to administer elections for the state’s 3.5 million registered voters. Once a quiet, behind-the-scenes position, the responsibilities of election officials today go far beyond the clerical or ministerial. Officials manage everything from complex voting and registration logistics to cybersecurity, crisis management, and public communication.
Some feared that the scrutiny placed on election administration after the 2020 election would result in a deluge of turnover, threatening institutional knowledge and operational stability. Instead, election officials have risen to meet new challenges by doubling down on professionalization, preparedness, and security. Read more
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