What applicants should submit

All materials should be attached to your online applications. The documents that the applicants do not have electronic copies of should be scanned and attached to the application. For more specific instructions on uploading some of the video, audio or photographic work samples, see below.

W-2 Form: A copy of your W-2 form and the W-2 of anyone who claims you as a dependent (typically your parents). This documentation will help the NAHJ Scholarship Selection Committee assess the scholarship applicant's financial need.

Resume: One page resume listing your educational background, work history, awards, journalism-related internships, other scholarships, language proficiency and any work done for your school or community newspaper, radio and/or television.

Letters of Recommendation: Two references from people who are familiar with your academic and/or journalism work. (Examples: professors, counselors, employers, faculty advisors, etc.) Letters from relatives will not be accepted.

Unofficial School Transcript: If you have attended more than one school, a transcript is required from each institution unless grades from the previous school (s) appear on the present transcript.

Essay In Spanish: Only for Maria Elena Salinas Scholarship applicants: Applicants must submit an essay in Spanish (written in the 3rd person as a news story) that explains why you seek a career as a Spanish-language broadcast journalist.

Autobiographical Essay: Essay is to be written in the third person as a news story. Essay should be typed, double-spaced and not exceeding 1000-words. Essay should address the following:

1. Why are you interested in a career in the field of journalism?
   
   
2. What event, story, person, experience, etc., inspired you to want to pursue a career in this field?
   
   
3. What hardships or obstacles have you experienced while trying to realize your goal of becoming a journalist?
   
   
4. What role, if any, do Latino journalists play in the news industry?

Work Samples: Print, television, radio, online or photo work samples. Please limit to three. (Explanation of work samples.)

1. Work samples may be in English or Spanish. Judges will be viewing all applications in a web browser, so make sure your work is formatted for the web.
   
   
2. Print samples can be stories written by the applicant that have been published in a high school, college campus or community newspaper or magazine or online. Applicants should include no more than three clips of published work. These are usually articles written by the scholarship applicant. If not already on your computer, scan your work samples so that you can upload them.
   
   
3. Television samples should be no longer than 3 minutes. After you edit your work sample, export your clip to your computer using the web settings. Make sure you save your video as a Quicktime .MOV, or .MPG file. Once on your hard drive, upload like a regular file.
   
   
4. Radio samples should be saved as a Quicktime .MOV, or .MPG files. Again, the total time should not exceed 3 minutes.
   
   
5. Photojournalism samples should be saved as JPEG, or GIFF files. Make sure the photo's resolution is at 72 dpi and no larger than 600K file size. If you need to resize your image, you can use a resizing tool at resize2mail.com.