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Are you curious about the world around you?

Do you like to ask questions of strangers?

Do you want to learn more about your faith?

Do you like to write?

If you answered yes to these questions than The Catholic Register wants you.

Here at The Catholic Register we are assembling our new team of young writers from across Canada for the 2010-11 season.

Currently in its tenth year, Youth Speak News continues to help young people with an interest in media to develop their skills in a faith context. YSN offers its team members regular online workshops in different aspects of journalism and a weekly forum to display their work in the pages of The Catholic Register and this web site. This team has become an important outreach for The Catholic Register and has helped create a greater awareness of youth issues within the church in Canada.

Through the YSN program, youth will:

• receive hands-on training in Catholic news media

Monthly newsletters, online discussion groups and internet-based activities will provide information on news, feature and opinion writing, photography and newspaper design, as well as the issues of Catholic journalism;

• gain an understanding of news production for newspapers, television and the web

YSN stories will be published both in paper and online. And in collaboration with Salt + Light Television, Canada’s only Catholic television station, YSN members may even have the opportunity to assist in the broadcast and editing process;

• produce high quality articles and opinion pieces suitable for portfolios

With the help of professional coaching, YSN members provide stories (one per month) and columns (on a rotational basis) based on events, issues, people and places that affect and influence their faith;

• meet in Toronto for fellowship and fun

A weekend retreat in Toronto offers YSN members a chance to meet fellow journalists, participate in seminars, pray together and visit the offices of both The Catholic Register and Salt + Light Television;

• help people in youth ministry by sharing their own stories or ministry practices, either through the pages of The Register or online discussion groups.

If you are in senior high school or university we invite you to apply for our program.

How to apply:

Nomination letter

We ask each applicant to submit a nomination letter by a youth minister, pastor, or teacher who can vouch that the applicant has a demonstrated interest in media and communications and is a committed Catholic.

Resume

Submit a resume indicating journalism experience e.g. school or campus newspaper, yearbook, photography, relevant courses.

Application form

Click here for application form. Fax or mail the completed form along with your resume and nomination letter by Wednesday, June 30, 2010 to:

Carolyn Girard, Youth Editor:
1155 Yonge St. Suite 401
Toronto, Ont. M4T 1W2
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tel: (416) 934-3410 ext. 403
fax: (416) 934-3409

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