What do participants do?

• Personalized Mentorship with HPR Masthead: Each fellow will be placed into a Lab of at most ten students, allowing for personalized instruction from some of the best young journalists in the country. 
  
  After registering, we will ask all fellows to complete a brief survey with their grade level, prior journalism experience, and specific interest areas. Labs will be thoughtfully curated for students with similar experience levels to learn together, and we will pair labs with an HPR Masthead member who is best equipped to guide them.
  
  In Labs, sessions will cover every aspect of the journalism process from ethical interviewing and researching to crafting the most compelling and intriguing hook. Labs will be both informational and interactive, combining direct pedagogy with experiential opportunities.

• Learn from a wide range of voices and experiences: Throughout the camp, fellows will have the opportunity to hear from different members of masthead, HPR alumni, and keynote speakers. These talks will range from discussing specific journalism topics to the experience of writing for a publication. Open to the entire fellowship, these lectures will allow fellows to hear and learn from a wide range of voices and experiences rather than just their individual lab leader. All lectures will conclude with a live Q&A component.
  
  
• 1-on-1 instruction: We believe that every student deserves 1-on-1 instruction, we will be offering office hours where students can meet 1-on-1 with Harvard student-journalists to discuss any questions they have about their journalist pursuits and beyond. Fellows will have the option to go to any instructor’s office hours, not merely their lab leader’s. For example, if a fellow was particularly inspired by a lecture they attended, they could speak directly with that instructor in greater detail during office hours. Although they are not mandatory, we highly encourage our fellows to take advantage of this unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with and receive personalized guidance from Harvard journalists.

Fellows will start with the Journalism Bootcamp in week 1 and move onto developing a single article for publication in week 2.

What do participants do?

• Develop a single article through one-on-one mentorship: Publication Track fellows will devote an additional week following the bootcamp into further developing a single article of their choosing. They may also select to publish a podcast, data journalism analysis, or photojournalism piece. Every fellow who is interested in pursuing the publication track will be paired with a dedicated mentor distinct from their lab leader. 
  
  Rather than have instruction be lab-based, fellows will work one-on-one
  with their mentors throughout the second week. This mentor will guide them through article ideation, and answer any questions that they have about the editing process, including explaining the expectations and flow of the Harvard Political Review editing pipeline. 

• Publication on Harvard Political Review website: Every article written by a Publication Track fellow will enter and go through the Harvard Political Review’s pipeline just as any Harvard student’s article would. This program will culminate in the publication of fellows’ articles in a special fellowship edition on the Harvard Political Review website, which reaches over 900,000 viewers annually.