July 26 - Sunday
3:00 p.m. Welcome Ceremony at Langmuir College (H-Quad)
Students check in
Listen to RHD outline Ground Rules for stay in dorms
Food and mingling
Short tour of the campus buildings where program is operating
6:00 p.m. Send parents off
7:00 p.m. Movie: “For My Father” @ Staller Center
9:30 p.m. Return to dorm
July 27 – Monday
7:00 a.m. News over breakfast @ Student Activities Center
9:00 a.m. Lesson by Charlie @ The Newsroom
What’s a news story? Discuss elements of news story structure
such as inverted pyramid. How events and ideas become news stories.
Analyze stories in today’s newspapers and websites. Discuss how
broadcast writing differs from newspaper and online writing
12:00 p.m. LUNCH @ SAC
2:00 p.m. Pulitzer Prize-winning Editorial Cartoonist Walt Handelsman @ Newsroom
How do news events become editorial cartoons?
3:30 p.m. Newsday Film Critic Rafer Guzman @ Newsroom
Covering the arts vs. covering news
5:00 p.m. DINNER @ SAC
7:00 p.m. Video Workshop w/ Rick Ricioppo @ Newsroom
Basic instructions on using video camera
9: 30 p.m. Return to dorm
Games and greatest journalism movies
July 28 – Tuesday
7:00a.m. News over breakfast @ Student Activities Center
9:00 a.m. Lesson by Charlie @ The Newsroom
Interviewing techniques. Creating story ideas and how to
approach and prepare for stories (list of questions, background
research, logistics)
11:00 a.m. Photo Workshop with Newsday Photo Editor John Williams @ Newsroom
What makes a photo good? How do you take a photograph for
news?
1:00 p.m LUNCH @SAC
2:00 p.m. News conference with SB Film Festival Director Alan Inkles @ Staller Center
3:00 pm. On-campus reporting assignments @ Academic Mall outside Library
Interview summer students on what it’s like to take summer classes
Shoot video and still photos of student life on campus
4:00p.m. Discussion of day’s reporting assignments w/ Charlie and staff
5:00 p.m. DINNER @ Student Activities Center
7:00 p.m. The Life of a News Story by Cathrine Duffy w/ “Jenny Deadline”
Follow news story from inception to editing to publication, through
all desks of the newsroom
8:30 p.m. Return to dorm
Games and movies
July 29 – Wednesday
7:00 a.m. News over breakfast @ Student Activities Center
9:00 a.m. Discussion with Charlie @ Newsroom
10:15 a.m. Bus leaves for News12
11:00 a.m. Tour of News12 @ Woodbury location
Speak with reporters, editors, producers about broadcast news
12:00 p.m. Leave News12 for Lunch @ Bertucci’s (Melville)
12:45 p.m. LUNCH @ Bertucci’s
2:00 p.m. Leave for Newsday
2:15 p.m. Arrive at Newsday (Melville)
Attend 2:30 p.m. budget meeting by Editor John Mancini
Tour building
Meet reporters and editors: Investigations Editor Steve Wick on legacy
of Robert W. Greene and Newsday; Business reporter Ellen Yan,
Investigations reporter Sandra Peddie
5:00 p.m. Leave Newsday for Stony Brook
7:00 p.m. Movie: “Adam’s Wall” @ Staller Center
9:30 p.m. Return to dorm
July 30 – Thursday
7:00 a.m. News over breakfast @ Student Activities Center
8:30 a.m. Discussion w/ Charlie @ Newsroom
9:30 a.m. Bus leaves for Cohalan Court Complex
10: 30 a.m. Arrive at U.S. District Court @ Central Islip
Tour building with Chief Clerk Peter Ausili
Watch trials and hearings of federal judges
Speak with Newsday federal courts reporter Bob Kessler
Speak with federal judge
12:00 p.m. LUNCH @ Food Court (Central Islip)
2:00 p.m. Arrive at Touro Law Center (Central Islip)
Tour law school facilities and Public Advocacy Center
2:30 p.m. Press conference with Dean Lawrence Raful
3:00 p.m. Lecture by First Amendment Professor Ton Schweitzer
Discusses unique power of the First Amendment for journalists in the
United States
4:00 p.m. Leave Touro
5:30 p.m. Arrive at Long Island Ducks baseball stadium, CitiBank Park (Central Islip)
Tour ballpark, meet Ducks staff
DINNER @ CitiBank Park
7:05 p.m. Watch Ducks v. South Maryland Blue Crabs
9:30 p.m. Leave for Stony Brook
10:00 p.m. Return to dorm
July 31 – Friday
7:00 a.m. News over breakfast @ Student Activities Center
9:00 a.m. Lesson by Charlie Haddad @ The Newsroom
Writing the story: transforming notes and research into comprehensive
news stories for publication. Critiques of work that has been completed.
Students work on drafts of stories on Ducks, Touro visit, court visit,
Inkles press conference, etc. Charlie and staff editing and coaching.
12:30 p.m. LUNCH @ SAC
2:00 p.m. Video Workshop with Rick Ricioppo @ Newsroom
4:30 p.m. Reporting and writing @ Newsroom
6:00 p.m. DINNER @ SAC
7:30 p.m. Return to dorm
Aug. 1 – Saturday
7:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Parents visit/Trip to Museums at Stony Brook/
12:00 p.m. LUNCH in Stony Brook Village
1:30 p.m. Return to dorm
Aug. 2 – Sunday
7:00 a.m. News over breakfast @ Student Activities Center
9:00 a.m. Watch and critique Sunday news programs
9:00 a.m. “Meet the Press” on NBC
10 a.m. “Reliable Sources” on CNN
10:30 a.m. “Face the Nation” on CBS
12 p.m. News Quiz
12:30 p.m. LUNCH @ SAC
2:00 p.m. Writing and editing workshop w. Charlie and staff
5:00p.m. Return to dorm
Aug. 3 – Monday
7:00 a.m. News over breakfast @ Student Activities Center
9:00 a.m. Broadcast Workshop w/ Assoc. Dean Marcy McGinnis @ Newsroom
“Winners and Sinners” in Broadcast News
11:00 a.m. So you want to be a TV News Anchor?
Students use teleprompter and read script for broadcast at news anchor
desk
12:30 p.m. LUNCH w/ Dean Schneider/Faculty/Visitors @ Jasmine
2:00 p.m. The College Admissions process with Admissions Director Rob Pertusati
3:00 p.m. Online writing and reporting w/ Adam Abramson
What skills will you need to succeed in the converged newsroom?
5:00 p.m. DINNER @ SAC
6:30 p.m. Critiques of work by Charlie and staff
8:00 p.m. Return to dorm
Aug. 4 – Tuesday
7:00 a.m. News over breakfast @ Student Activities Center
9:00 a.m. Final edits and posting @ Newsroom
2:30 p.m. LUNCH @ Student Activities Center
2:00 p.m. Final video edits w/ Rick Ricioppo @ Newsroom
4:30 p.m. Return to dorm
Aug. 5 – Wednesday
7:00 a.m. Breakfast @ SAC
9:00 a.m. Pack to leave dorm
11:00 a.m. Presentation of work and awards @ Newsroom
3:00 p.m. Send off students and parents
