From Our Archive
June
16, 2003
Scripps Howard Foundation
names "Top Ten" scholarship winners
CINCINNATI -- The Scripps Howard
Foundation today, through its Top Ten Scholarship Program,
awarded $100,000 in scholarships to 10 college journalism
students from across the United States
. The Top Ten scholarship winners were
nominated by the colleges and universities they
attend.
Each of the students will
receive a $10,000 scholarship. The scholarship is a one-time
award covering a full academic year.
“Journalism education is central to our mission at
the Scripps Howard Foundation, which makes the Top Ten
Scholarships one of our most important and high profile
programs,” said Judith G. Clabes, president and CEO of the
Foundation. “Each year we seek out the most talented and
promising college journalism students in the nation to help
them achieve their goal of becoming career
journalists.”
Top Ten
scholarship winners are selected based on academic achievement
and a demonstrated interest in a career in journalism. They
also were required to submit personal essays emphasizing their
long-term goals. A special scholarship committee of industry
professionals selected the winners.
The “Top Ten” scholarships are offered annually to
full-time students entering their junior or senior year. To
qualify, students must be enrolled for the full academic year
in any journalism discipline.
This year’s “Top Ten” scholarship winners
are:
Kimberly
Monet Adams, University of Missouri –
Columbia.
Adams is a junior from
St. Louis majoring
in broadcast journalism and political science. She has been
accepted into the McNair Scholars Program, an honors program
for gifted minority students, concentrating on academic
research. Adams has worked as a news department intern for
KDNL-TV in St.
Louis.
Jamie
Gumbrecht, Michigan State University.
Gumbrecht, a senior from
Davisburg,
Mich., is an editorial
assistant for the Detroit Free Press
bureau in Lansing,
Mich. She also works as a
freelance reporter for the Jackson
(Mich.) Citizen-Patriot. She
is working this summer as a features department intern at The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
She also served a news internship at the Lansing
(Mich.) State Journal during
summer, 2002.
Melody
Gutierrez, California State University,
Chico. Gutierrez, a senior
from Chico,
Calif., is a staff member
of the university’s student newspaper, The Orion, serving
most recently as opinion editor. She is working this summer as
a sports intern at The
Sacramento
(Calif.) Bee. She worked as a
sports intern for The
Houston Chronicle during summer, 2002.
Deborah
Hirsch, Northwestern University. Hirsch, a senior from
Middleton,
Wis., is on the staff of
the university’s student newspaper, The Daily
Northwestern, serving most recently as assistant editor on
the development desk. She also is a member of Northwestern’s
Medill Faculty Curriculum Committee. She will be working this
summer as an intern at the Orlando
(Fla.)
Sentinel.
Arash
Markazi, University of Southern
California. Markazi, a senior
from Woodland Hills,
Calif., is a sports
stringer for the Associated Press and a contributing writer to
SLAM and KING magazines. He
worked during 2002 as a sports intern for the Los Angeles Daily News
and is currently serving an internship at Tongue magazine in
Los
Angeles.
Andra
Parrish, University of Florida. Parrish, a senior
from Weston,
Fla., is a student editor,
writer and staff photographer working on department
publications for the university’s
College of
Dentistry. She
recently completed a photography practicum at The
Gainesville
(Fla.) Sun and was an
editorial intern at the South Florida
Sun-Sentinel in Fort
Lauderdale during summer,
2002.
Alaina
Potrikus, Syracuse University. Potrikus, a senior
from North Syracuse,
N.Y., is an editorial
intern for Syracuse.com, Advance Media, and a contributing
reporter and stringer for Eagle Newspapers in
Syracuse. She
worked as a city desk editorial intern at The
(Syracuse) Post-Standard during
fall, 2002.
Eric P.
Schmidt, University of Colorado,
Boulder. Schmidt, a senior
from Lakewood,
Colo., has served as a
reporter, entertainment editor and managing editor for the
university’s student newspaper, the Campus Press. He also
has worked as an intern for The Denver Post
(spring, 2003) and the Daily Camera in
Boulder (summer,
2002). Schmidt is studying in
Copenhagen,
Denmark ,
this summer.
Grant
Schulte, University of Iowa. Schulte, a junior
from Iowa City, Iowa, is a staff writer for the university’s
student newspaper, The
Daily Iowan and editor of The Daily Iowan University
Edition, an annual newspaper distributed to incoming
University of Iowa students. Schulte also has served as
interim metro editor for The Daily
Iowan.
Natalie
Storey, University of Montana. Storey, a junior
from Livingston,
Mont., is a reporter for
the university’s student newspaper, the
Montana Kaimin. She is
working this summer as an intern at the
Bozeman
(Mont.) Chronicle. She also
has worked two summers as an intern at The Livingston
(Mont.)
Enterprise.
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
