by Jamie Klein
His signature is what got me. On every dotted line of every form, his signature was perfectly written—as if he had stamped it down. Compared to the lazy scribble that is my John Hancock, I could only imagine this young man taking time to pen his name again and again. I wondered if he was [...]

by Stacy Thacker
I’ve spent all 22 years of my life on the Navajo Nation, in the rural town of Navajo, N.M. Moving to Montgomery, Ala., to work as an intern at the Montgomery Advertiser was life-changing for me in many ways. My first few weeks were hard, but slowly I began to get used to [...]

Q: Describe the young woman who showed up that first night to CQS orientation.
A: That young woman was naive about the newspaper industry but fairly certain that she wanted to be a part of it. That me loved to write, as I do now, but thought that traditional newspaper journalism was the most suitable platform [...]

by Elizabeth Gamez
During my internship, the deputy editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sent me a message through NewsEdit Pro, the software we use to write and edit stories. He asked to see me in his office.
I grabbed a pen and notebook, made sure my shirt was tucked and zipper zipped and walked into his office [...]

by Jorge Barrientos
Work hard.
I told myself to remember those two words as I entered the Chips Quinn Scholars orientation, and in anticipation of my internship with The Orange County (Calif.) Register.
While in Washington, D.C., I took it all in: the speakers’ experiences, the advice and, of course, the food. I remember writing for our [...]

by Devo’n Williams
I did not just diversify the newsroom when I became a Chips Quinn Scholar at The Bulletin in Bend, Ore., last spring; I brought a little color to the entire region of Central Oregon.

When I arrived at the paper in February after a three-day road trip from Alabama, a snowstorm and some of [...]

by Mariecar Mendoza
As my plane landed in Nashville, Tenn., during the spring of 2007, I remember staring out the window wondering whether the other Chips Quinn Scholars in the city below were as excited as I was to learn what the program could offer a young journalist.
At the time, I was already working at The [...]

by Jennifer Golson
Louisville. I’d heard of the city, but never thought I would live there as a working journalist, until the summer of 1992 when I was named a Chips Quinn Scholar.

I grew up in the Washington, D.C., area and went to Howard University, but I had dreams of life beyond the Beltway, and this [...]

by Ryan Hiraki
One of my favorite things about the Chips Quinn Scholars program is how we embrace diversity. Even so, I didn’t know how I would explain my decision to move to Medellín, Colombia.
In February, about 2 ½ months before my commencement at The George Washington University, I decided to buy myself a present for [...]