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2002 Headlines:
• Tensions Between India and Pakistan Remain High; Military Buildup Along Border Follows Attack on Indian Parliament (January 2002)
• Winter Olympics Held in Salt Lake City, Utah (February 8-24, 2002)
Reflections:
The CQS program is about two things for this 2002 alum: the First Amendment and being a member of the “newspaper industry super [...]

by Julie Hubbard
My experience in three newsrooms in my career as a Chips Quinn Scholar has had two common threads: I’ve been surrounded by other CQS alums and I’ve covered First Amendment issues.
A Chips Quinn summer internship in 2002 at the Muskogee (Okla.) Daily Phoenix & Times-Democrat took me back home to Oklahoma and landed [...]

by Lindsay Machak
Chris Silva was as a summer intern at Florida Today in Melbourne, Fla., in 2003 as part of the Chips Quinn Scholars program.
He went on to cover sports for the Detroit Free Press, then went to the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder. He now is a content producer for Playboy.com in Chicago, where [...]

by Alejandra Matos
Charles (Charlie) Ericksen is not your typical Hispanic. In fact, by blood, he isn’t Hispanic at all. Yet his love and dedication for the Hispanic community run deep within him. While in his 20s, he married a Mexican woman, Sebastiana Mendoza, after meeting her in Oaxaca. They moved to East Los Angeles with [...]

2009 Headlines:
• 111th Congress Opens; Senate Democrats to Accept Illinois Appointee (January 6, 2009)
• Obama Takes Oath of Office as 44th President…First Black President Succeeds Bush (January 20, 2009)
• Iraqi Provincial Elections Bring Wins for Maliki Allies; Voting Largely Free of Violence (January 31, 2009)
Reflections:
An alum credits his CQS multimedia training in 2009 [...]

by Lanz Christian Bañes
I bought my first smartphone one week before I started my Chips Quinn Scholar experience in 2009 — and I’ve never regretted either.
I was naive back then, using my new phone to mess around with Facebook and play online chess, never realizing the potential journalism tool I had in my hand. But [...]

by Vickie Jones
I was honored to be in the third class of Chips Quinn Scholars in the summer of 1993. I remember arriving in Arlington, Va., for the orientation at the Freedom Forum. We were a small group back then, numbering only 16, I think. We learned from the best in the field [...]

1998 Headlines:
• Democrats Gain in U.S. Midterm Elections, Voters Ignore White House Scandal (November 3, 1998)
• U.S. President Clinton Impeached in Sex-and-Perjury Scandal (December 19, 1998)
• U.S. and Britain Launch Air Attack on Iraq (December 30, 1998)
Reflections:
For one 1998 Chips Quinn alum, the messages heard at CQS orientation still resonate in her life [...]

by Leslie Fulbright
From my first job as a beat reporter to my work as an enterprise reporter at a major metropolitan newspaper to my current graduate studies in nonfiction writing, the Chips Quinn philosophy has guided me.
When I showed up for orientation 13 years ago, in the fall of 1998, I had just graduated [...]