Editor’s note: The following blog entry by Marco Santana is being republished here with his permission.

By Marco Santana
To meet John Seigenthaler is to be inspired. The 82-year-old founder of the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tenn., has lived a life that you usually only read about. Starting in 1961, he served as an administrative assistant [...]

Moving on:
Sean Jensen (Summer 1996) has accepted a new position at the Chicago Sun-Times as the Chicago Bears/NFL writer and columnist. He says, “I’m very excited about the new opportunity.” Jensen was the Vikings writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press for 10 years.
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Brenda Duran (Summer 2002) is the editor in chief of Long Beach Magazine [...]

Hello Scholars!
Who among us has to deal with assignments from more than one editor? And has anyone noticed that sometimes these editors aren’t aware of all the assignments on your plate at a given time? How do you handle the juggling game?
And/or…..If you’re fortunate to have only one editor, how [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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)