The Summer Journalism Academy at Boston University provides high school students the opportunity to expand their skills and prepare for college through a residential experience on campus in the heart of Boston. (A shorter, learn-from-home option is also available.)

Each academy instructor is also a working journalist, so what’s taught is grounded in real-life experience. Each lesson is tied to its practical application, by giving students actual reporting assignments. Each day is a sample of life as a news reporter.

Over three weeks, students learn in morning Classroom sessions working from a university-level textbook and assignments, before applying those lesson in our midday Newsroom, covering real stories on campus and in the city. Guest speakers from the Boston Globe, WBUR and other news outlets augment the experience, and students get a chance to explore Boston through visits to Fenway Park, museums, parks and shopping areas.