Howard University Student Journalists to Cover Historic DNC in Chicago

WASHINGTON – Howard University student journalists have been selected to report on this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Vice President and Howard alumna Kamala Harris (B.A.’86) is set to make history as the first Black woman to receive a major party presidential nomination.Journalists from The Hilltop, the nation’s oldest collegiate Black newspaper, and from the Howard University News Service (HUNS) will interview delegates, alumni and local Chicago residents. They will document events alongside thousands of fellow credentialed media professionals from across the country and around the world.Associate professor Jennifer Thomas and assistant professor Christine McWhorter, Ph.D., from the Department of Media, Journalism and Film at the Cathy Hughes School of Communications will supervise the coverage. Student journalists said they planned to use the opportunity to learn more about how the Democratic Party plans to confront and resolve its internal division, learn more about the party’s position on the situation in the Middle East and document the groundbreaking nature of the occasion.ProvidedThe student journalists are:· Skyler Winston, a journalism senior from Brentwood, California, is completing a summer internship with KTVU Fox 2 in the BayArea and serves as the News & Politics editor at The Hilltop.· Trinity Webster-Bass, a senior...