NJPF
Scholarships
For information
about scholarships offered by the
New Jersey Press Foundation,
go to the foundation's web site: www.njnf.org .
A separate list
of newspaper and news service
internships for college students
is available elsewhere on this
NJCPA web site. To go to that
list of internships, click here.
The New Jersey Press Foundation, the
charitable arm of the New Jersey
Press Association, awards several
scholarships every year to
college students who work as
interns for New Jersey
newspapers.
Eight interns were
selected
in December 2006 to receive
scholarships and internships that
pay a minimum of $300 a week
during the summer of 2007.
Application for the 2008
program was November 15.
Deadline for
the 2009 Internship / Scholarship
Program is November 15, 2008.
The New Jersey Press Foundation offers these
other college scholarship
programs:
- Richard Drukker
Memorial Scholarship; $2,000; for a
New Jersey resident
studying journalism at
Montclair State
University.
- Bernard Kilgore
Memorial Scholarship; $5,000; for a
New Jersey high school
student who plans to
major in journalism in
college. The scholarship
recipient will be named
the New Jersey High
School Journalist of the
Year by the Garden State
Scholastic Press
Association.
- Isaac Roth
Newspaper Carrier
Scholarships (2); $2,000; for
high school and college
students who deliver New
Jersey newspapers and
high school or college
students whose parents
deliver New Jersey
newspapers.
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Other
N.J. Scholarships
American
Legion Press Club of New
Jersey Father Anthony J.
O'Driscoll Memorial Scholarship,
$500; to a graduating high school
senior entering a four-year
college. For more information,
contact: Jack W. Kuepfer, 68
Merrill Road, Clifton, N.J. 07012
(include a SASE with your
request).
Bob Baxter
Scholarship Foundation
Scholarships (2), $1,000 each; to
N.J. residents intending to study
press photography. Applications
available from Jean-Rae Turner,
c/o New Jersey Newsphotos,
Hemisphere Center, Route 1,
Newark, N.J. 07114.
Greater
Philadelphia Chapter of the
Society of Professional
Journalists Scholarships (2),
$1,000 each; to college students
who are residents of the
metropolitan Philadelphia area
(including southern New Jersey
and Delaware). Applications
available from Gerald Etter, c/o
The Philadelphia Inquirer, 400 N.
Broad St., Philadelphia, PA
19130.
New Jersey
Sports Writers Association
scholarship, $500; to a New
Jersey resident who has
demonstrated an interest in
pursuing a career in sports
writing. Send your name, college,
year of graduation, current class
year, college address and phone
number, home address and phone
number, high school and college
newspaper experience (staff
positions held and honors), a
statement of interest in a sports
writing career, a bio sketch, a
letter of recommendation from
someone who has evaluated your
newspaper work, a transcript of
college course work (optional),
three samples of work (preferably
published) and a statement of
special financial or other family
circumstances (if applicable).
Mail all information to: NJSWA
Scholarship, P.O. Box 200,
Metuchen, N.J. 08840. Deadline
for applications to be postmarked
is Dec. 27.
New York
Association for Women in
Communications scholarships (4),
two at $2,000 each for
undergraduate students and two at
$2,000 each for graduate
students. Awarded in memory of
Jessica Savitch and open to male
and female college students
attending schools in New Jersey,
Connecticut and New York. For
information, write or call
NYWICI, 355 Lexington Ave., 17th
Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017-6603;
Phone: 212-661-4743.
Tim O'Brien
Scholarship is awarded
annually to a Seton Hall
University journalism freshman
who contributed articles to The
Setonian, the college
newspaper. For details, click here.
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Awards
NJPF
Better College Newspaper Contest
New Jersey's college
newspapers are strongly encouraged to enter the
2008 Better College Newspaper Contest sponsored
by the New Jersey Press Foundation.
The following
information is presented on this
web site to help college
newspapers prepare to enter the
2008 contest:
The contest,
which has separate divisions for
two-year and four-year colleges,
has seven categories for
individuals and two categories
for the overall newspaper to
enter.
Awards are
presented every spring at a
luncheon sponsored by NJPF.
To register for
the 2008 conference and the
presentation of the 2007 awards,
click here.
The nine
categories for the contest are:
Total-Newspaper
Categories
- General
Newspaper Excellence
- Page
Layout and Design
Individual
Categories
- News
Writing
- Feature
Writing
- Arts and
Entertainment / Critical
Writing
- Enterprise
/ Investigative Reporting
- Opinion
Writing
- Sports
Writing
- Photography
CIT &
Rutgers N.J. Business Journalism
Competition
Student
reporters for New Jersey college
and university publications are
invited to submit articles for
the 17th annual Journalism Award
for Distinguished Business and
Financial Reporting of New Jersey
Issues.
The contest is
sponsored by CIT Group, Inc., and
the Department of Journalism and
Media Studies at Rutgers
University.
The wining
student reporter will receive
$500. An honorable mention award
of $250 also may be presented.
The deadline
for entries is February 28.
Application
forms are available by calling
(732) 932-7500, ext. 8150 or
8126. For more information about
the contest, visit www.scils.rutgers.edu.
Student
Society of Newspaper Design
This national
contest has four judging
categories:
1. Daily
student newspapers
2. Non-daily student newspapers
3. Non-daily designer of the year
4. Daily designer of the year
For a list of
recent winners, check the SSND
web page:
www.missouri.edu/~jourdrm
For an entry
form, contact:
Daryl Moen
203 Neff Hall
School of Journalism
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
jourdrm@muccmail.missouri.edu
The Best of
Collegiate Design
The College
Media Advisers operates a
national awards competition for
college newspapers and publishes
the results in an informative and
attractive magazine.
For more
information and an entry form,
write Bob Adams, 121 Garrett
Center, 1 Big Red Way, Western
Kentucky University, Bowling
Green, KY 42101-3576.
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