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 White House Correspondents' Association Features Prime Movers Media

 Watch the video that was featured before Washington's best journalists -- and the President -- April 28, 2012.

And the Winners of the Jack Donaldson Scholarship Are...

Congratulations to our two Jack Donaldson Memorial Scholarship and Internship winners:
             Angel Brock of McKinley Technology High School won the $24,200 scholarship.
             Shante Nia Hayes of Chapelgate Christian Academy won the summer paid internship at Atlantic Media.
 
The Scholarship and Internship are given by the White House Correspondents’ Association. Angel and Shante were congratulated by President and Mrs. Obama April 29 at the WHCA’s Annual Dinner, which was attended by more than 2,500 people including journalists, Washington insiders and entertainment figures.
 

Students Take Center Stage at the End-of-School-Year Showcase

Approximately 100 D.C. students showed off their best class work at the 8th Annual Prime Movers Media Student Showcase and Awards celebration, on May 9, at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs.
The day started with a discussion of Presidential campaign ads with members of the White House Correspondents’ Association: Ed Henry of Fox News, Carol Lee of the Wall Street Journal, Bill Press of The Bill Press Show (syndicated talk radio) and Jared Rizzi, POTUS Channel on Sirius XM Radio
After lunch, our DCPS students showed off their student-produced media productions and received recognition for outstanding work during the 2011-2012 school year. Emcee for the Showcase was Maureen Bunyan of WJLA-TV. Student co-hosts were Gaia Lawrence of Ballou High School and Ky’lend Adams of Duke Ellington School of the Arts.    
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Washington Post and Duke Ellington HS Push 'Fast Forward'

Thanks to Jaye Linnen of the Washington Post’s Young Journalists Development Project for partnering with us to offer, Fast Forward, an eight-week journalism program, Jan. 24-March 15, tailored to media students from Duke Ellington School of the Arts. On Tuesdays from Jan. 24 to March 15, approximately 20 Ellington sophomores and juniors and their teacher, Koye Oyedeji, travelled to the Post to meet professional journalists and discuss news and feature writing, editing, interviewing and video journalism.

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GW Students: Change Lives -- Maybe Even Your Own -- Become a PMM Intern

Interning with Prime Movers Media program has been a great learning experience. I have always gone to private schools, so it was eye-opening to get an inside look at DCPS. Every day I came into class, I gained more respect for teachers and felt like I was a component in improving each student’s learning ability
                                                                                                                  Nicole Wilkins, Intern, Roosevelt High School
 
 [My professional journalist partner] has been such a wonderful source of wisdom and advice and I feel fortunate to have her as a mentor figure. Actually, because of her, I was able to make a connection at [a DC news bureau] and eventually landed an internship there. Even better news: that internship led to a job offer .
                                                                                                                                   Azhar Al Fadl, Intern, Ballou High School
 
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As 2011 Ends, a Time to Celebrate Our Success

             Prime Movers Media students had a brilliant 2011 thanks to our teachers, professional mentors, interns and staff. We worked with more than 350 students at 10 schools with our 11 interns and 10 professional journalists.  From student visits to the White House Press Briefings to newsroom visits in D.C., from new curriculum to college planning workshops our students have been challenged to report and write, videotape and photograph, record and upload the news of their schools and communities.
            Our gratitude to all our partners – including the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs – that give so much support and energy to our program.
            Our thanks for a full and flourishing 2011 – and our wish for happy holidays and a bright 2012.
                                                                                                 – Dorothy Gilliam
 

‘The New Ballou’ Gets One Hour Special on WJLA/News Channel 8

             Congratulations to our Prime Movers Media students at Ballou High School for their hour-long video magazine news show, The New Ballou, which will be broadcast this week and next on WJLA/News Channel 8.
            It’s an upbeat look at the students of Ballou with students shooting video, writing scripts, editing and anchoring eight short reports – from a school visit by First Lady Michelle Obama to the ins and outs of being part of the fabulous Ballou Marching Knights Band.
            WJLA Reporter Sam Ford and Videographer Pege Gilgannon have worked on and off for seven years with Ballou students through our program. This video report by Ballou media students, under the direction of then-adviser J.D. DiMattio, is a result of Sam and Pege’s most recent Prime Movers Media collaboration. 
            The New Ballou will be shown on WJLA-TV, Channel 8, on Friday Dec. 23, at 2:30 p.m. and on Saturday, Dec. 24, at 1:30 p.m. It will also air several times before Jan.1. Check the WJLA/News Channel 8 website for broadcast times. The New Ballou is also available online at http://www.wjla.com/articles/2011/12/ballou-high-school-special-70510.html.
            In a short segment about their work at the school, Sam says “Prime Movers has been a lot of work for us but also a lot of fun.” Pege says. “I’ve been so happy with the experience of Prime Movers. They’ve helped us teach kids, and the kids in turn have taught us. … We’ve become part of the Ballou family, and it’s been wonderful.”
 

  

Richard Wright Students See a Newsroom in Action

            We are so pleased that our newest partner, Thomson Reuters, has jumped right into our program and begun wDec 20 Visit to Thomson Reutersorking with our students. On Dec. 20, eighth and ninth graders from Richard Wright Public Charter School visited the Thomson Reuters Washington bureau to learn how a newsroom operates.
            During a lunch after the tour, students had Q&A sessions with Washington Bureau Chief Mary Milliken, Political Editor Alistair Bell and White House Correspondent Caren Bohan.
            “Prime Movers Media is doing very important work and we are very much looking forward to helping in that effort,” said Rob Doherty, Reuters’s general manager for the United States