{"id":24317,"date":"2021-02-01T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=24317"},"modified":"2021-04-29T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T18:25:09","slug":"reporter-alumnus-selected-for-sports-journalism-institute-and-usa-today-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/reporter-alumnus-selected-for-sports-journalism-institute-and-usa-today-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Alumnus Selected For Sports Journalism Institute And USA Today Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christian Ortega, who served as editor-in-chief of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Reporter <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">during the 2018-19 academic year, has been selected to the <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsjournalisminstitute.org\/latest-news\/meet-the-class-of-2021\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Sports Journalism Institute<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> class of 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SJI is an organization dedicated to training women and minorities to diversify the sports media landscape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ortega, 24, will attend a journalism boot camp focused on in-depth sports coverage with 15 other students in late May. He will then be partnered with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USA Today<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to start his internship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity. I like that the amount of people involved in the boot camp is small,\u201d Ortega said. \u201cIt will allow for it to be very one-on-one work when you get partnered with a newspaper.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ortega started his journalism career covering sports and news at <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/author\/christian-ortega\/\"><i><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Reporter<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span> In 2019, he was a finalist for the Associated Collegiate Press Reporter of the Year award in the two-year colleges\u2019 category. That November, he earned four first-place awards from the Florida College System Publications Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the past year, he has served in several roles at <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alligator.org\/\"><i><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Independent Florida Alligator<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the student newspaper at the University of Florida. He is currently the sports editor and served as the paper\u2019s editor-chief this summer, leading the newsroom through its coronavirus coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, he has interned at the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Florida Times Union<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and covered basketball and recruiting for the online newspaper <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside The Gators<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that covers UF sports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ortega, who earned an associate\u2019s degree in journalism from Kendall Campus in 2019, is expected to graduate from UF this August with a bachelor&#8217;s degree in journalism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Ortega, who served as editor-in-chief of The Reporter during the 2018-19 academic year, has been selected to the Sports Journalism Institute class of 2021. 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