BLOGS
♦ Thurs., Jan. 19 (Day 1)
♦ Fri., Jan. 20 (Day 2)
♦ Sat., Jan. 21 (Day 3)
♦ Thurs., Jan. 26
♦ Fri., Jan. 27
PROFILES
PRESS RELEASE
2012 SPRING AUDIO SLIDESHOWS
2012 SPRING VIDEOS

They number 12, come from 10 colleges and universities and are assigned to 10 media sites around the country. The members of the 2012 Spring class of Chips Quinn Scholars have one thing in common: they are passionate about journalism. Beyond that, their uniqueness emerges. A few are self-described foodies, a few love to read [...]

by Ellen Hirst
At the end of my internship at the Omaha World-Herald, I asked six mentors two important questions: What do you love about journalism? As you scan the journalism horizon, what challenges exist and what does that mean for rising reporters?
Their answers are truly inspiring and offer great advice for any aspiring journalist. Here [...]

Moving on:
Perry Bacon Jr. (Summer 1999) is political editor of NBC’s theGrio.com and a contributor to MSNBC. Previously he was national political reporter for The Washington Post.

Andrew Tran (Spring 2006) is online producer for Boston.com/The Boston Globe’s Your Town hyper local site. Previously he was an online news producer at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk.

Virgil Dickson [...]

by Colleen Fitzpatrick
The essays, slide shows and videos commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Chips Quinn Scholars program have all been published.

From the first contribution by Lori Price (Summer 1992) to the last by Jaz Gray (Summer 2009), not a single CQS class went unrepresented in the effort to honor the program. Chipsters everywhere shared [...]

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 [...]