RTNDF awarded a $1,000 Mentor Grant for the 2008 San Diego Multicultural Journalism Workshop. This is a free, two-week summer journalism workshop for high school students. It is organized by San Diego’s news media professionals and held at Point Loma Nazarene University.  The Grant was given to the CCNMA Latino Journalists of California (formerly the California Chicano News Media Association).

Workshop sponsors are the San Diego Union-Tribune, KNSD-TV (NBC 7/39), KPBS News Radio based at San Diego State University, the Riverside Press-Enterprise and the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Lead instructors are Janye McClinton, executive producer at NBC7/39 and Dwane Brown, morning new anchor/editor at KPBS News Radio. Leonel Sanchez of the San Diego Union-Tribune is the workshop director.

RTNDF’s Grant Application Period for the 2008-09 school year will open in late November 2008. Grants will be awarded in March 2009.

The high school students' newscasts will be broadcast starting July 1.

Read and see video from the student newscast.