About the NAHJ Rubén Salazar Scholarship Fund

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) offers several scholarships through our Rubén Salazar Scholarship Fund program. These scholarships are designed to encourage and assist Latino students pursue careers in journalism. Hispanics remain woefully underrepresented in mainstream U.S. newsrooms. One of NAHJ’s goals is to help more qualified Hispanic students to move from the classroom to the newsroom. NAHJ offers scholarships to college undergraduates and graduate students pursuing careers as print, photo, broadcast or online journalism.

You must plan to attend a college or a university as a full-time student for the entire academic year in order to be eligible for an NAHJ scholarship. Only students who attend or plan to attend schools within the United States or Puerto Rico are eligible for NAHJ’s scholarships.


About Rubén Salazar

Established in 1986, NAHJ’s scholarship fund is named in memory of Rubén Salazar. A columnist for the Los Angeles Times and news director of Spanish-language television station KMEX, Salazar was covering the Chicano Anti-Vietnam War Moratorium in East Los Angeles when he was killed by a tear-gas projectile fired by a deputy sheriff in 1970. For journalists of color, his legacy symbolizes the continuous fight to integrate mainstream media and ensure accurate and fair coverage of Latino issues. Rubén Salazar was posthumously inducted into the NAHJ Hall of Fame in 2000.