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Student Resources
Many of the groups listed below offer scholarships, can be resources for stories or can help those who are pursuing careers in the journalism field who are looking for jobs. Check out each Web site to find out more about their scholarship programs. Again, not all of the below groups offer scholarships, though most of them do:
JOURNALISM ORGANIZATIONS
JOURNALISM PUBLICATIONS
CAREER RESOURCES
FELLOWSHIPS
American Fellowships
NABEF Fellowship Program
Pew Fellowships
RTNDF Cash Fellowships
INTERNSHIP INFORMATION
NAHJ Internship List
NAHJ Internship Tips
Pennsylvania Newspapers Assoc. Foundation Internship Guide
ONLINE NEWSPAPERS/PUBLICATIONS
American Latino
Diario Las Américas
El Andar magazine
El Nuevo Herald
Grupo de Diarios America
Hispanic magazine
Hispanic Business magazine
Latina Magazine
Newspaperlinks
LATINO RESOURCES
NAHJ Resource Guide
GENERAL INTEREST JOURNALISM LINKS
Copy Editor
Independent Media Institute
Inter-American Development Bank's press page
Media Resources
reporter.org
Reuters news feed at Yahoo!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
The ERaM (Ethnicity, Racism and the Media) Programme
The Reporters Network
The Yearbook of Experts, Authorities & Spokespersons
SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION
Absolutely Scholarships
Aspira Association, Inc
College Board
College Connection Scholarship
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Fastweb.com
FreSch!
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Hispanic Scholarship.com
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
MALDEF: Financial Aid for Non-citizens
MSN.com
Petersons.com
Scholarships.com
Scholarships for Hispanics
Scholarship Resource Network
Scholarships and Journalism Workshops Offered by Other Latino Journalism Organizations
The California Chicano News Media Association (CCNMA) is the first organization dedicated to journalists of color to be established in the United States. CCNMA was found in 1972, two years after the death of NAHJ Hall
of Famer and former Los Angeles Times columnist Rubén Salazar, who
was killed during a Chicano Anti-Vietnam War Moratorium in East
Los Angeles. CCNMA holds its annual Joel Garcia Memorial Scholarship
competition ever year beginning in January. The annual postmark
scholarship application deadline is the first Friday in April of
each year. High school seniors and college students are eligible,
but they must either: 1) be residents of California (residents of
that state who attend a college or university in another state are
still eligible) or 2) attend or plan to attend a college or university
that is within the state of California.
CCNMA Sacramento Chapter Summer Multicultural High School Journalism
Workshop is offered for Sacramento, CA-area high school students
who are pursuing careers in print or broadcast journalism. The Sacramento
Bee plays a role in this workshop. The CCNMA Sacramento chapter
also offers scholarships to Latino student journalists who are pursuing
careers in English print or broadcast journalism. For more information,
contact CCNMA Sacramento chapter president Pablo Espinoza of Univision
TV affiliate KUVS at: (916) 614-1971 or by e-mail at pespinoza@univision.net.
CCNMA San Diego
(California) Chapter Summer Multicultural High School Journalism
Workshop is open to high school juniors and seniors who
attend school in San Diego, Imperial, Riverside and San Bernardino
counties who are pursuing careers in journalism. Students spend
two weeks each summer at a journalism boot camp, guided by professional
journalists in the classroom, but most importantly, out in the field.
That field experience in a student's journalism career is commonly
reserved for juniors and seniors at the university level. The students
produce a newspaper, a television newscast and a radio newscast.
But they also attend classes on writing and grammar and participate
in panel discussions on ethics in journalism and interviewing techniques.
The students stay in dorms at a San Diego-area university during
their participation in this workshop and are supervised by professional
journalists. The San Diego and Inland Empire chapters of the California
Chicano News Media Association organize the workshop. Their principal
partners are The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, The San Diego Union-Tribune,
The Riverside Press-Enterprise, NBC 7/39 and KPBS radio. The instructors
are reporters, editors and photographers from those media organizations.
Since 1982, the San Diego workshop has trained over 400 high school
students. It is one of the oldest such programs in the nation. Approximately
two-thirds of the students have subsequently attended college and
have graduated. In some cases, the former workshop students working
in journalism are returning to help the newest workshop participants.
CCNMA
San José (California) Chapter Summer Multicultural MOSAIC High School
Urban Journalism Workshop is open to high school juniors
and seniors who attend schools in Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa
Cruz, southern Alameda or southern San Mateo counties. Latino, African
American, Native American and Asian American students are strongly
encouraged to apply. Experience is not required, but you should
have good writing skills, a willingness to learn and the desire
to explore a career in journalism. The two-week program is held
on the San José State campus, where students will work in the university's
newsroom and live in the campus dormitories. At the end of the two
weeks, students will have learned the basics of reporting and writing
under the guidance of professional Bay Area journalists. They will
have spent hours tracking down real-life sources such as politicians,
celebrities, lawyers and police officers. They will see their bylines
or photo credit line published in their own newspaper.
CCNMA Tri-County Chapter (San Luis Obispo, Santa
Barbara, Ventura, CA counties) offers scholarships to Latino
high school and college students who live or attend school in one
of those three counties. For more information, contact CCNMA Tri-County
chapter president Frank Moraga of The Ventura County Star at: (805)
645-1052 or by e-mail at moraga@insidevc.com
Chicago Association
of Hispanic Journalists (CAHJ) has held its six-week MULTICUTURAL
PRESENTE high school journalism workshop since 1993. High school
sophomores, juniors and seniors (grades 10 - 12) who attend schools
in the greater Chicago area have a chance to work with professional
English and Spanish-language journalists. The students meet with
the professional journalists every Saturday for a little more than
a month during the spring. Students work on a broadcast or print,
production while covering stories in and around Chicago.
Dallas-Fort Worth (Texas) Network of Hispanic Communicators offers scholarships to high school seniors and college students who have a permanent residence or attend school in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area. Students must be pursuing a career in the communications field. The DFW Network of Hispanic Communicators is made up primarily of English and Spanish-language print, photo, broadcast and online journalists who work in that area of the Lone Star state. This organization's scholarship application is usually available on its Web site in December, with the deadline coming up in early March. DFW Network of Hispanic Communicators also holds an annual one-day journalism workshop for high school and college students that is co-sponsored by the University of Texas at Arlington Department of Communication.
Georgia Association
of Latin American Journalists (GALAJ) was founded in 2003.
GALAJ plans to offer scholarships to students in the Peachtree state
who are pursuing careers in English and Spanish-language journalism.
Houston Association
of Hispanic Media Professionals offers the Sylvan Rodriguez
Scholarship to students who either attend a college or university
in the Houston, TX area or whose permanent residence is in that
area. This award is named after the late KHOU-TV anchor Sylvan Rodriguez,
who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2000. That same year,
he was inducted into the NAHJ Hall of Fame.
San Antonio (Texas)
Association of Hispanic Journalists (SAAHJ) offers scholarships
to high school seniors and college students who have a permanent
residence in San Antonio or Bexar counties. Application deadline
is usually in early to mid April of each year.
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