Mission
Mission
We train and equip journalists to cover issues important to you – that no one else covers. We also bring the news and newsmakers to your hometown and to students and schools around the nation.
While we are active in many areas, we focus on the following key goals:
News to You
We bring newsmakers and the journalists who cover them to local communities so can hear cutting edge issues in person. We give you the opportunity to hear directly from the source what is happening in Washington and around the county, and what is about to happen. You and citizens around the country can ask questions and interact with newsmakers. As we serve you, let us know who you want to see in your community and what issues are most important to you.
Patriotism in High Schools
The Washington Policy Institute helps aspiring writers and journalists consider and express the importance of the exceptional country that America is, while learning to read, report and recognize news fairly and without taking a side. As part of our effort, we host essay contests that encourage high school-age students (including home school students) the opportunity to work with their teachers to create essays and other media addressing current and always-relevant topics.
This fall the Washington Policy Institute inaugurates its essay contest mission by celebrating America’s 250th birthday. Students will have the opportunity to write about the nation and what America and its birthday means to them. The Washington Policy Institute will offer winning writers a trip to Washington with their parents and their teachers and have their works published in national media. See our Students page for more information.
Ralph Hallow Scholarship
Honoring the late Washington iconic editor, Ralph Hallow, the Washington Policy Institute is accepting donations to fund this important scholarship. It will provide internship opportunities for college journalism students to work in a real newsroom for ten weeks. As an antidote to Advocacy Journalism so prevalent in today’s media, The Ralph Hallow Scholarship provides students with a cash award scholarship as well as a paid internship in a news organization providing unbiased, national news coverage. Interns will not fetch coffee. They will find themselves covering real news in real situations under the guidance of experienced editors. We currently offer an internship with The Washington Times, and we are forming relationships with more news organizations to offer qualifying student interns the opportunity to work with (as much as possible) the medium he or she chooses (print, video, radio or other electronic media). Join us in helping more deserving students receive the training and experience they, and America, needs.
Join us by donating to The Washington Policy Institute so we can offer more essay contests to more students with more opportunities as well as giving us the ability to host more and greater events, and finally to offer the Hallow Scholarship to more deserving students.