From Our Archive
Aug. 28, 2000
Foundation
sponsoring college
newspaper competititon
for Most Valuable Staffer
CINCINNATI -- The Scripps Howard
Foundation, in partnership with College Media Advisers Inc.,
is accepting nominations for the second annual national
competition to identify five outstanding college newspaper
staff members.
The winners of the “Most Valuable
Staffer” competition each will receive a $5,000 scholarship
and an all-expenses paid trip to New York for the College
Media Adviser’s Spring National College Media convention in
February 2001. Matching $5,000 grants also will be awarded to
the students’ newspapers.
Scholarships and matching
grant winners will be announced Feb. 1, 2001. The Foundation
and College Media Advisers will be accepting nominations
through Dec. 1.
Any college newspaper in the U.S. that
publishes at least weekly during the regular school year may
nominate one staff member. The letter of nomination must be
written by the newspaper adviser, student publications
director, a department chair or dean, or other appropriate
nominator and should explain how the student has been “most
valuable” to the newspaper. The staff member must be enrolled
as a full-time student in the college or university but is not
required to be a journalism or communications major and may
work in any department of the newspaper.
The
nomination package should include a resume; three clips
(photocopies accepted) of published work from the college
newspaper (story, photographs, ads, editing samples, etc.); a
letter from the applicant explaining his/her philosophy of
what a newspaper should be and how his/her contributions have
helped the newspaper; a 500-word essay discussing a current
industry issue of the student’s choice; a transcript of
college course work; and a copy of the newspaper itself.
The competition will be judged by a panel of academic
and newspaper professionals. The decision of the judges will
be final.
Mail complete nomination packet to:
Jack Willis
Most
Valuable Staffer Competition
The
University of Oklahoma
860 Van Vleet Oval
Norman, Okla. 73019
College Media
Advisers, with more than 700 members coast to coast,
represents the people who advise the nation’s collegiate
newspapers, yearbooks, magazines and electronic media.
Dedicated to excellence in journalism, the Scripps
Howard Foundation is a leader in industry efforts in
journalism education, scholarships, internships, literacy,
minority recruitment/development and First Amendment
causes.
Contact: Vickie Martin, Scripps Howard Foundation, 513-977-3034, vlmartin@scripps.com