The Journalism program in the summer of 2006 had more newsroom interns than ever.
Shown above outside the Western Courier's complex in the Heating Plant Annex in the south-central area of campus are, left to right, Sarah Cash (Central Illinois Business Publishers), Rob Arroyo (Macomb Eagle), Kyle Moss (central Illinois' Times newspaper group), Drew Thomason (Mahomet Citizen), Ryan Ferguson (Pekin Daily Times) and Ben Snowden (Canton Daily Ledger).