- Programs for Professionals
- Programs for High School, College Students and Advisers
- College Programs
- Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships
- Internships /Professional Programs and Fellowships for Journalists of Color
- Conferences & Workshops
- Diversity Tools
- Job Fairs
- Organizations with Diversity Programs
- Other Resources
Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships
Asian American Journalists Association
1182 Market St., Suite 320
San Francisco, CA 94102
Contact: Albert Lee, professional programs coordinator
Phone: (415) 346-2051
Fax: (415) 346-6343
E-mail: albertl@aaja.org
AAJA supports and encourages the advancement of mid-career journalists in the newsroom. It offers several fellowships to provide members the opportunity to attend career-building programs.
AAJA Fellowships help members attend short-term professional training and development programs. Grants of up to $1,000 are offered to provide assistance with tuition, travel, food, lodging and other program-related expenses. Applicants must be full or associate members wth at least three years of professional experience. Applications are accepted throughout the year.
AAJA/Poynter Institute Fellowships help two midcareer fellowships attend selected management training courses at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. Applicants should be full-time employees of a print, broadcast or online news organization or journalism educators. Tuition and hotel costs are covered by Poynter, while transportation costs are covered by AAJA.
AAJA/Newspaper Association of America Fellowship helps newspaper journalists attend the annual Executive Leadership Program. Applicants should be full-time employees of a newspaper organization. The fellowship covers seminar registration fees, travel, meals and hotel expenses.
AAJA Business Fellowship offers members a chance to develop a better understanding of the challenges of running a newspaper or media company. Participants can expect to observe and learn about the operations in production, marketing, advertising, circulation and distribution. Previous fellowships took place at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and The New York Times.
American Society of Newspaper Editors
11690B Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191-1409
Phone: (703) 453-1122
http://www.asne.org
Robert G. McGruder Awards For Diversity Leadership: ASNE, in partnership with the Associated Press Managing Editors and the Freedom Forum, accepts nominations for the Robert G. McGruder Awards for Diversity Leadership. Two awards are given annually — one for newspapers with a circulation of up to 75,000 and one for newspapers with more than 75,000 circulation. Each award is $2,500. The awards go to individuals, newsrooms or teams of journalists who embody the spirit of McGruder, a former executive editor of the Detroit Free Press and a relentless champion of diversity. McGruder died of cancer in April 2002.
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa/index.html
Services provided by the CSPA include written evaluations of student publications (annual critiques) as well as the planning and conducting of four conferences and workshops. In addition, the CSPA publishes a quarterly magazine called SPR, Student Press Review. The highest awards given to publications by the CSPA each year are its Crown Awards. The association also judges more than 10,000 individual entries in its annual Gold Circle Awards for student journalists. More than 500 college students and 500 high school students receive awards in the 75 categories of this competition.
Detroit Free Press Scholarships for High School Seniors
Joe Grimm
600 W. Fort St.
Detroit, MI, 48226
Phone: (313) 222-6490, ext.600
E-mail: grimm@freep.com
http://www.freep.com
The Detroit Free Press High School Journalism Program was conceived by former Free Press executive Jerry Tilis in 1985 after budget woes forced the school district to eliminate the journalism program from most schools. Once a month, from October through May, each of 22 participating public schools produces one full-size newspaper page.
Knight Ridder Scholarship for High School Seniors
http://www.knightridderscholars.com/index.html
$40,000 Minority Scholarship Program: Each year, Knight Ridder offers four college scholarships to outstanding high school graduates of color. Two scholars are chosen for their interest in journalism; two are chosen for their interest in business-side departments such as marketing, technology and advertising. The scholarships are for $5,000 a year for four years. In addition, KR Scholars will work at a KR company each summer beginning after high school, and continuing through their college years. After graduation, the scholars will work at a Knight Ridder company for at least one year. The scholarships are intended for students in communities served by Knight Ridder papers, and applicants must win at the local level to go on to national judging. As local winners are chosen in January, local deadlines tend to be in December and January.
National Association of Black Journalists
Scholarships for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
University of Maryland
8701-A Adelphi Road
Adelphi, MD 20783-1716
Phone: (301) 445-7100
Fax: (301) 445-7101
E-mail: nabj@nabj.org
http://www.nabj.org/media_institute/fellowships/index.html
Ethel Payne Fellowships: NABJ annually seeks to award $5,000 fellowships to journalists wanting international reporting experience through self-conceived assignments in Africa. The fellowships bear the name of the woman known as the “first lady of the Black Press.” Ethel Payne (1911 – 1991) covered seven U.S. presidents as a journalist and was a war correspondent for The Chicago Defender and Sengstacke Newspapers. In 2002, the U.S. Postal Service honored Payne -- who reported on the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s and in 1972 became the nation's first black female network commentator -- with a commemorative 37-cent stamp. It was Payne's work in Africa as a foreign correspondent that prompted NABJ to create the fellowships.
Ida B. Wells Award: Given annually by NABJ and the National Conference of Editorial Writers (http://www.ncew.org/) to a media executive or manager who has made outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they serve. The award is named for the 19 th century journalist who crusaded against lynching. It is administered by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Contacts: Lisa Goodnight, NABJ communications manager, (301) 445-7100, or lisa@nabj.org; and Wendy Leopold, Medill School of Journalism, w-leopold@northwestern.edu
NABJ Scholarships: Annually, NABJ awards deserving students interested in pursuing a career in journalism awards of more than $30,000 in scholarships. Each scholarship is worth up to $5,000. Scholarships are open to any foreign- or American-born students, currently attending an accredited four-year college or university in the U.S. or those who are candidates for graduate school.
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
1000 National Press Building
529 14th St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20045-2001
Phone: (202) 662-7145 / (888) 346-NAHJ
Fax: (202) 662-7144
E-mail: nahj@nahj.org
The Rubén Salazar Scholarship Fund program offers scholarships designed to encourage and assist Latino students to pursue journalism careers. NAHJ offers scholarships to college undergraduates and graduate students pursuing careers as print, photo, broadcast or online journalists. Applicants must plan to attend a college or a university in the United States or Puerto Rico as a full-time student for the entire academic year to be eligible.
ñ Awards: Awards are presented in these categories — Leadership, Emerging Journalist, Frank del Olmo Print Journalist of the Year, Broadcast Journalist of the Year, Photographer of the Year. The leadership award is open, through nomination, to any individual, organization or institution that has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to Latino concerns and is actively working toward promoting a better understanding of Latino issues or culture. The other awards are open through a nomination process to Hispanic journalists who have made a significant contribution to the Latino community and brought awareness to issues affecting Latinos, or a Hispanic journalist who has achieved excellence through their chosen media.
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
RTNDA / RTNDF
1600 K St. N.W., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20006-2838
Phone: (202) 659-6510
Fax: (202) 223-4007
E-mail: rtnda@rtnda.org
N.S. Bienstock Fellowship: A $2,500 award established in early 1999 by N.S. Bienstock Inc. owners, Richard Leibner and Carole Cooper. Bienstock is a longtime member of RTNDA. This award recognizes a promising journalist of color in radio or television news management.
Michele Clark Fellowship: RTNDF's first fellowship is named for a CBS News correspondent who was killed in a plane crash while on assignment in 1972. Her family and colleagues at CBS created a fund in her name, endowing a permanent $1,000 award for young, promising professionals of color in television or radio news.
Society of Professional Journalists
Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Center
3909 N. Meridian St.
Indianapolis, IN 46208
Phone: (317) 927-8000
Fax: (317) 920-4789
New America Award: To encourage and honor collaborations between ethnic and mainstream media.
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity
SEO Scholars Program
126 E. 31st Street
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 532-2454
http://www.seo-usa.org
The SEO Scholars Program (formerly the College Preparation or Traditional Program) is an out-of-school academic enrichment program for promising students of color in New York City public schools. It works with motivated students from under-resourced communities and has provided consistent, targeted services over several years. The Scholars Program offers a rigorous four-year plan of academic enrichment and standardized test preparation, college counseling, mentoring and summer learning experiences.
Thomson Fellowships
Jim Jennings, Vice President and Editorial Director
Thomson Newspapers
Metro Center
1 Station Place
Stamford, CT 06909
(203) 435-2515
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/jobs/details.php?cat=newswire&ID=1997
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