The Verse City Workshop: A Career in Journalism?
This summer, in partnership with the East Metro Youth Services, the Verse City Workshop at Ryerson University’s School of Journalism will present a five-day intensive multimedia journalism camp. The Verse City Journalism Project at Ryerson University is designed to encourage youth from Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods to consider a career in journalism.
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Hey everyone!
For the past few weeks we’ve been focusing heavily on the Aviva grant and gathering new supporters to vote for our cause. It was a great experience and we actually got a lot of great publicity on and off Ryerson’s campus. Thanks to everyone who voted and helped out!
But here at Verse City we love to multi-task. So while we’ve been working frantically on the Aviva project, we’ve been organizing fundraisers, workshops and brainstorming other innovative ways to make Verse City bigger and better.
Fundraisers
We’ve held two successful fundraisers so far, selling a grand total of 900 samosas over the course of just five hours! We’re planning on holding another fundraiser soon, and we promise it’ll be just as mouth-watering as the first two.
Mingle
We’re also planning to hold a mixer for the students at our journalism school. We want our students to be more involved in this community project and since a lot of you don’t know too much about what we do, we’d love for you to join us for a little party so you can involve yourselves in this fantastic project. Updates on that soon!
Workshops
Verse City, in addition to the five-day summer camp, holds a series of workshops throughout the year. Saturday Nov. 21 is our next one, which will focus on fashion journalism. We have Rea McNamara, a style columnist for Eye Weekly magazine and Dwayne Evans, a very innovative fashion photographer coming in to guest host the seminars.
We also have a series of workshops coming up in the new year so stay tuned for those.
Future
If you’ve been following our Aviva grant you’ll know we want to bring our journalism workshops to on-reserve aboriginal youth. We’re actively looking for funding and grants and are really serious about making this happen. Take a look at the Aviva page if you haven’t already.
We’ve even started planning our summer workshop!
That’s we’re up to. Thanks for reading and keep supporting Verse City!
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As Arti frantically prepares for Verse City and contemplates the note on which it will end, I can’t help but wonder how it will begin.
I hope you all are as enthusiastic as we are. As eager as we are. As anxious as we are.
As a student it’s a little weird to think I’ll be mentoring other students. I mean, just a few years ago, I was in your place! But I think that’s what makes this experience so unique. Student journalists teaching students what it’s like, what it entails, how competitive the industry is and how much you have to accomplish to make it big.
And while it is a lot of hard work and dedication, it’s so, so much fun. It’s exhilarating. There are times that I can’t believe in just a few short years I’ll be getting salary for this work. Meeting interesting people and traversing the globe is usually a job perk, not an actual job.
I really, really can’t wait to meet you all. It’s going to be a lot of fun!
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Hey everyone! I’m Sachin Seth and I’ll be one of the student mentors at the Verse City workshop next weekend.
Some background about me: I’m a third-year Ryerson journalism student training for a career in broadcast journalism. Right now I intern at rabbletv on rabble.ca here in Toronto, but I’m planning on fine tuning my training in the UK after I graduate from Rye in 2011. I’m hoping my studies and experience propel me into a career in international reporting.
Through Verse City we’re hoping to get some of you excited about the prospect of a career in journalism. To me, it’s one of the most exciting jobs out there. Depending on the field you choose you can do anything from meet influential artists and political figures to travel all over the world.
The field is constantly evolving and changing, and the way we report on local and global issues are changing as well. But no matter how much it changes, it will always be relevant. The world will always need the news, and the news will always need the world. You’ll be providing a necessary service to millions of people. You’ll be the medium between society and societal issues.
One of the things I like most about being a journalist is the lack of routine. Stories change, reporting methods change and no two days are ever the same. It’s a great alternative to the regular nine-to-five office grind.
I can talk for hours about the pros of being a journalist, but we want you to experience it first-hand. We’re hoping the work you do with Verse City next week speaks for itself.
I look forward to meeting you all, and I hope you have a great time with us next week!
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