They traveled from as far as Japan and as near as Sarasota, Fla., to spend six weeks at The Poynter Institute for what past participants have referred to as "journalism boot camp." Read up about what they've done now, and stick around to see what they've done after they've spent some time learning, developing and collaborating at the Institute.

Keep checking back at PoynterSummerFellows.org. The deadline for applications to the 2007 program is Nov. 15, 2006. Sign up to get the work of next year's fellows e-mailed to you. You can even subscribe to an RSS feed of their work by clicking here.

Writers	Visual Journalists
Dugan Arnett University of Missouri	Erika Alexander Ohio University
Lisa Boone Winston-Salem	Rich Cornish University of Illinois
Liam Dillon Georgetown University	Alex Fong City College of San Francisco
Leann Frola Penn State University	Matt Frye Northwest Missouri State
Toru Fujioka University of Nebraska	Elie Gardner University of Missouri
Monique Garcia Southern Illinois University	Bart Glasser University of Colorado
Ivy Guiler West Virginia University	Michelle Gonzalez University of Illinois
Karen Johnson University of Washington	Mike Greener University of Montana
JD Malone Miami University of Ohio	Lingbing Hang West Virginia University
Carolyn Quinn Loyola Marymount University	Jon Kleinow Webster University
Sara Satullo University of Delaware	Ben Koski Haverford College
Annie Shuppy University of Iowa	Julie Kubal International Center for Photography
Creighton Welch Trinity University	Michelle Le San Francisco State University
Andrew Tran University of Texas	Donna Rhodes University of South Florida
Daniel Wallace Wayne State University	Libby Roerig University of Missouri
Pat Walters University of Delaware	Cara Herman Ohio University