Manhattan—A Kansas State University senior from Salina is among a group of eight collegiate journalists selected to participate in the 2014 class of the National Newspaper Association Foundation News Fellows program in Washington, D.C.

Jena Sauber, senior in journalism and mass communications with a print focus, was one of the students chosen for the program, according to Elizabeth K. Parker, foundation president and co-publisher of the New Jersey Hills Media Group, Bernardsville, N.J.

Sauber currently serves as the managing editor of the Collegian, the daily newspaper at Kansas State University, and she completed a summer 2013 internship at the Salina Journal. The Kansas Press Association is sponsoring Sauber’s participation in the program.

The fellows will convene in Washington on March 12 for a briefing from the National Security Agency, or NSA, and will work throughout the week to gather news from other sources for their stories, which will tackle one of many angles on NSA surveillance.

The News Fellows program was established by National Newspaper Association Foundation in 2013 to advance the cause of news literacy. Senior journalism students are invited to Washington, D.C., for a 2 1/2-day program of intensive briefings and enterprise reporting on a topic of keen national interest.

The fellows this year will be briefed by the National Security Agency; the National Security Archive, a journalism program dedicated to reporting on national security; and the pollsters at Gallup International. They will also attend a luncheon at the Newseum in downtown Washington.