Hey Spring Scholars,
You rock! I’m loving reading your posts. Be sure to keep checking earlier posts now and then — we’re all busy and sometimes responses trickle in a little late.
Here’s our situation this week: Your editor assigns you to a story about which you know nothing. I mean absolutely [...]

Spring Chipster Lisa Song offers a blogger’s glimpse into the tiny Colorado town where she is living and covering environmental and science issues for High Country News magazine.

The Camel Invasion
Jan. 18, 2010
After two weeks at work, it’s obvious that I need a crash course in western politics. High Country News reports on issues [...]

Hi Scholars,
Great posts, everyone!
For this week’s post, let’s combine Diane’s and one of Kristy’s questions into the following: How do you come up with or get at original story ideas in a new city? How can the process of “settling in” to a new place work in your favor in [...]

By Paola Iuspa

The Chips Quinn Scholars reunion at John Quinn’s Florida beach house was bittersweet. The cold weather kept us inside, but there was nothing bitter about that. We enjoyed sitting around Quinn’s semi-circular editor’s desk in his living room at “The Folly.”

Rather, the bitterness had to do with the frustration aired by some [...]

By Christopher Ramirez

Ernst Lamothe Jr. was a Chips Quinn Scholar during the summer of 2000, working for the Star-Gazette in Elmira, N.Y. A Chicago native, he graduated from the University of Illinois in 2001. He went on to The News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill., where he reported first on business and then on [...]

This feature is meant for alums of the Chips Quinn Scholars program to periodically post updates, especially as our alum base grows and our Scholars scatter across the globe.
Vallejo, Calif. (03/5/10)

From left: Chipsters Shauntel Lowe (Summer 2008), Lanz Christian Bańes (Spring 2009) and Jose San Mateo (Summer 2008) stand near the waterfront in Vallejo, Calif. The [...]

Hello Scholars!
I hope you made it safely to your internship sites/papers.
For our first blog: Two questions from each of you, please, that have occurred to you since Nashville. Now that you’ve returned to or are starting your jobs, what are two things about doing the work of a journalist that [...]

Go Western

The Contributor

Vandy Ball

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Organizing Stories (due March 14)
Juggling (due March 7)
Panic on deadline! (due Feb. 28)
Getting into the Idea Groove (due Feb. 21)
What’s on Your Mind (due Feb. 14)

By Adolfo Flores

During my internship at The Dispatch in Lexington, N.C., I worked on a piece about a student whose residency in the United States was undocumented.

North Carolina doesn’t allow students who are children of undocumented workers to enroll in institutions of higher education in the state so the young woman I wrote about was [...]