by Colleen Fitzpatrick, CQS career coach

As digital publication and social media continue to create opportunities and challenges for newsrooms, some things never change: the principles of news-gathering and storytelling that are grounded in fairness, accuracy and credibility.

That was one message from last week’s Associated Press Managing Editors’ (APME’s) NewsTrain/Nashville conference in Tennessee. About 100 journalists [...]

By Chhun Sun, CQS ‘05

LAS VEGAS—Nine members of the Chips Quinn Scholars class of 2005 held a five-year reunion in Las Vegas in August, proving that even though some of us are no longer in journalism, we can get along just fine.

The reunion allowed us to share updates of our lives face to face [...]

Moving on:
Erik Ortiz (Spring 2002) is a reporter for Newsday in Melville, N.Y. Previously he was a reporter for The Press of Atlantic City in New Jersey.

Hatzel Vela (Summer 2003) is a reporter for KNXV, the ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Ariz. Previously he was a reporter for the CBS affiliate in Charleston, S.C., for [...]

The Associated Press Managing Editors, in partnership with the American Society of News Editors, is accepting nominations for the ninth annual Robert G. McGruder Awards for Diversity Leadership.

by Nicole Norfleet, CQS ‘10

When Skip Foreman, 55, joined The Associated Press on May 12, 1979, half the staff was twice his age. Now, after more than three decades with AP, the North Carolina native is one of the most experienced and respected journalists in the Raleigh, N.C., bureau. As the breaking news staffer, [...]