What Is The Project?

Underwritten and announced by Texas Newspaper Foundation in January 1999, The Texas Community Journalism Project provides mid-career development and continuing education for people who are working at newspapers across Texas.

Those who enroll in Project courses will be better prepared as editors and publishers and more capable of leading the Texas Press Association in the years to come.

Limited-enrollment Project classes are conducted primarily in a classroom setting in a new teaching facility on Texas Christian University campus in Fort Worth.

Classes on editorial/reporting, photojournalism, circulation, sports writing, management, page deisng and advertising are offered. Recognized experts in their fields are brought in as instructors. Classes, featuring room, board and tuition are provided for those who are selected to attend.

Newspaper readers across Texas will reap the benefitof better-trained community journalists from now on, thanks to a new joint project linking Texas community newspapers and higher education.

Institute Coordinator

Dr. Tommy Thomason, director the Schieffer School of Journalism at Texas Christian University, is coordinator of the Project.

TCU offers one of only 15 accredited journalism programs at private universities in the nation and the only fully accredited journalism program at a private university in the Southwest.