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AAJA DC scholarship opportunity for summer interns in Washington area

AAJA Asia — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:58:06 +0000

The AAJA District of Columbia chapter — with members from Baltimore to Richmond, Va., — is offering two US$1,000 scholarships to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students who have summer journalism internships in Washington, D.C.

Recipients must be AAJA members. They will be asked to write a summary of their internship for the AAJA-DC website and newsletter.

The deadline to apply is May 4. Application and more details here.

Enter Knight Foundation’s News Challenge

AAJA Asia — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:22:14 +0000

Got a great idea on how you can use existing platforms to drive
innovation in media and journalism? Enter Knight Foundation’s News
Challenge to win a grant to make it happen! The first contest of the
year, themed “Networks,” opens February 27!

Knight will launch a second contest later in the spring as an open
competition, looking for new ideas broadly. A third contest will be
devoted to a topic to be determined later.

The Knight Foundation is a nonprofit organization in the U.S. supporting and promoting journalism innovation and excellence.

Students, want to be a foreign correspondent?

AAJA Asia — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:33:23 +0000

The Overseas Press Club Foundation is offering 14 scholarships or internships to students who aspire to be foreign correspondents. Students must be studying at an American university; Americans studying abroad are also eligible.

The Foundation pays travel and living expenses for interns in foreign bureaus at such leading news organization as the Associated Press and Reuters, among others, and at foreign English-language media companies like the South China Morning Post and Cambodia Daily.

Deadline for applications is December 1. Find out how to apply here.

Swadesh DeRoy Scholarship from Japan’s FCC

AAJA Asia — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:58:10 +0000

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan is taking submissions for its Swadesh DeRoy Scholarship. The top prize is 300,000 yen (nearly US$4,000). Any current undergraduate or graduate student in Japan, or any Japanese student enrolled in an overseas journalism program, is eligible to apply. The deadline is February 15, 2012. More details on the FCCJ website.

ENTRY DETAILS

Students can apply by submitting an application form, resume, copy of their student photo ID, a brief statement explaining what you would use the prize money for, and ONE of the following：

PRINT ENTRY: A 800-1,200 word unpublished article in English on one of the topics listed below. Applicants must include photos with their text.

NOTE: Priority is given to print entries that express original ideas, and are clear, concise and well-researched. Winning entries are not restricted to grammatically perfect articles. Non-native English speakers are free to consult with native speakers prior to submitting their articles, but there should be minimal outside editing. Entries from non-native speakers suspected of having been heavily rewritten by native speakers of English will be subjected to investigation by the Scholarship Committee and possible disqualification.

PHOTO ENTRY: A 200-250 word written introduction about what the photos are meant to convey as a journalistic work and a selection of at least ten 8×10 photos (color or black and white) on one of the topics with captions. Students may also submit a contact sheet or a group of digital photo thumbnails in addition to the photos. Entries must be printed photographs. Digital images on CDs and DVDs will not be considered due to the nature of the judging process.

VIDEO ENTRY: 1.5 minute ? 3 minute visual package on one of the topics. Video contributions should be in spirit and in principle, the sole work of an individual although cited assistance from outside sources is permitted.

TOPICS (Choose one): Rebuilding after 311 Disaster / The future vision of Japan.

AWARDS
GRAND PRIZE: 300,000 yen
Second Prize: 200,000 yen
Third Prize: 100,000 yen