Baltimore Association of Black Journalists congratulates our local budding journalists joining the 2014 NABJ Student Multimedia Projects. These standout students will represent Maryland proudly at the 39th Annual NABJ Convention and Career Fair in Boston, Mass.
NABJ offers this expenses-paid fellowship to outstanding journalism students to cover its annual convention and career fair along with local stories in the convention’s host city. For one week, students work with professional journalists and educators to produce daily television newscasts and newspapers as well as create and manage a full convention website, nabjconvention.org.
We can’t wait to see some Charm City cameos at #NABJ2014.
Lauren Elliott joins the Graphics Design team
After graduating from Cornell University in 2011 with a B.S. in Apparel Design, Lauren Patrice Elliott pursued jobs in the fashion industry in Baltimore and New York City. Her experiences include studying textiles in India, interning at Under Armour, working at fashion week with Harlem’s Fashion Row and The Ground Crew, interning with acclaimed designer Tracy Reese, and working as a head machine sewing counselor for The Handwork Studio, a children’s needle arts camp. Through her experiences in fashion, Elliott discovered her love for styling and fashion journalism. Elliott has authored a blog, Loelle’s LookBook, but most recently, she has begun developing a fashion brand and YouTube channel, Lo & Behold, which will promote her styling and fashion capabilities. Lauren is currently getting her masters degree in magazine design at the Missouri School of Journalism and one day hopes to become an art director and stylist.
Alexandria Benford joins the Broadcast/TV Production team
Baltimore’s Alexandria Benford is a senior broadcast journalism and Italian language & culture student at the University of Maryland, College Park, according to her Vimeo page. Her interests include photography, theater, Italian and tutoring elementary students. Benford is a WMAR-TV ABC 2 News Teen Media Project and Carver Center for Arts & Tech alumna, according to BABJ member Christopher Nelson.