By Jamie Hughes

In June 2008, I sat at a luncheon with a panel of media executives from the Sioux Falls, S.D. area. I was a student at the American Indian Journalism Institute.

Another student asked Randell Beck, then executive editor of the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls and now the newspaper’s publisher, what he looked for [...]

By Derek Sijder
LEARN HOW TO USE FILL FLASH

I hardly used flash for my photographs, but by the end of my internship I never left home without it. Natural light is the first thing a photographer should look for, but we often face unfavorable lighting conditions. I found my flash particularly helpful when shooting indoors and [...]

Editor’s note: Leezel Tanglao (CQS ’03), in an essay posted to the CQS Web site in September, wrote that amid all the upheavals in daily journalism, some joys endure. One is the network of professional and personal friends made through the Chips Quinn Scholars program. She seeks out and builds on this network wherever she [...]

Moving on:
Markeshia Ricks (Summer 2002) is a state government reporter for the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. Previously she was a state capitol correspondent for The Anniston (Ala.) Star.

Serena Maria Daniels (Summer 2004) accepted a two-year residency at the Chicago Tribune, working as a reporter on the metro desk. She says, “Chicago’s a big change from [...]

By Andrea Vasquez

I had never been to the South, nor had I given the region much thought outside history class, Hurricane Katrina and Lynyrd Skynyrd songs. I first heard of Vicksburg , Miss., about a month before I moved to the port city, population 26,000, at the bottom of the Mississippi Delta.

Despite [...]