Moving on:
Rodd Cayton (Summers 1997 and 1998) is a reporter for the Mohave Valley Daily News in Bullhead City, Ariz. Previously he was a reporter for The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif.
Raven Hill (Summer 1997) is a reporter in Baltimore for The Sun, covering county government. Previously she was seminars coordinator for the Education Writers Association [...]

By Meena Thiruvengadam, CQS ‘03
We came by train, bus and car, and a Chips Quinn tote bag hanging from a mailbox in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., told us we were home.
More than a dozen Chipsters spanning the years gathered at Chips Quinn Scholars Program Director Karen Catone’s home in Reston, Va., last Saturday to [...]

by Ashley Marchand (CQS ‘10)

One day in late January 2010, I sat talking with John C. Quinn in his office at the Freedom Forum’s Diversity Institute at the John Seigenthaler Center in Nashville. It was cold outside, but inside, the atmosphere was made warm by the measured voice of the man who, with his late [...]

Chips Quinn would have celebrated his 55th birthday on July 20, 2010.
John C. Quinn thought his birthday would be an appropriate occasion to reprint a copy of the last memo Chips wrote to his staff while editor of the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal — and to remind Chips Quinn Scholars everywhere that his spirit lives [...]

By Diane Lee, CQS ‘10

I rented an apartment in this building within walking distance of downtown Bend, Ore. It had a living room, kitchen area, two bathrooms and a king-size bed with more pillows than I needed. I felt at home.

I met a lot of transplants from Hawaii in Bend and even found two Hawaiian [...]

Moving on:
Jason McKibben (Spring 2005) is a photographer for The Post-Star in Glens Falls, N.Y. Previously he did freelance work in Maine.

Ana Cubías (Spring 2008) is a reporter for El Tiempo Latino in Washington, D.C., where she previously was an intern. She says, “I cover issues including immigration, foreign affairs dealing with Latin America [...]

By Kiah Haslett, CQS ‘10
My desk at the Chicago Tribune is littered with yellow Post-it notes and pieces of paper pinned to the sides of my cubicle.
There are directions for setting up voice mail, a list of “helpful websites” and instructions on how to file for www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com and get into the news computer system.
I have [...]

Hey Folks,
Sorry to keep harping on story ideas, but the ability to come up with, refine and pitch story ideas is one of the most important skills we have as journalists.
So let’s talk about pitching an idea to your editor:
– How do you decide what to say in your pitch (What you’re going to tell [...]

Leezel Tanglao (Summer 2003) wrote in an essay posted to the CQS website in September that despite all the upheavals in daily journalism, some joys endure. One is the network of professional and personal friends made through the CQS program, a network she seeks to nurture and build on wherever she goes.

So it’s no surprise [...]

Hello Dear Scholars!
So now your eyes and ears and taste buds and mind are on full alert in your new communities as you try to rustle up story ideas. And you’re noticing/hearing new and wondrous things each day.
But how do you take an observation or other information and turn it into a story idea that [...]