This feature is meant for alums of the Chips Quinn Scholars program to periodically post updates, especially as our alum base grows and our Scholars scatter across the globe.
Crazy Horse Memorial, S.D.
Fourteen Chipsters worked as editors or mentors with American Indian high-school students studying journalism at the 13th annual Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop. The workshop [...]

by Kassandra Lau
“Call it naiveté or pure intuition, but for years now I’ve believed that journalists have the best jobs in the world.”
I wrote that sentiment more than a year ago, while applying to the Chips Quinn Scholars program. With a nearing deadline and having procrastinated shamefully, I went for an honest and simple approach [...]

Promotions:
Seth Prince (Summer 1999) has been promoted to sports editor for The Oregonian in Portland, where he previously was assistant sports editor. He says, “I’m excited about the move, the opportunity to lead one of our biggest coverage teams and to continue growing as a newsroom leader.”
Moving on:
Halimah Abdullah (Summer 2006) is a political contributor [...]

by Samantha Sais (filing from Nairobi, Kenya)
After leaving the Chips Quinn Scholars training in Nashville, Tenn., in spring 2011 and heading to Phoenix to start my internship at The Arizona Republic, I was beyond excited. I had ideas and projects I wanted to work on and a renewed faith in my skills and ability to [...]

by Kelcie C. McCrae
It was early April last year and I had not heard from any of the seven internship programs I had applied to during the fall semester of my junior year. Defeated and preparing to ask for my job back at the YMCA, a job I swore never to return to after high [...]

by Kay Nguyen
This is for those of you who might still be wondering about what the Chips Quinn Scholars program is all about. I’ll admit that I was a bit skeptical when a mentor first told me about the program and the lifelong bonds she formed with fellow Chipsters.
Now, I feel terrible about sending in [...]

Kenneth Hawkins is a print journalism senior at North Carolina A&T State University. He was a Summer 2011 Chips Quinn Scholar for the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. Hawkins has been photo editor and associate photo editor for The A&T Register, the weekly student newspaper. He has interned for The New York Times Journalism Institute (summer [...]

New beat:
James Wagner (Summer 2007), sports reporter at The Washington Post, is changing beats to cover the Washington Nationals, the professional baseball team in Washington, D.C. He writes, “It is the most arduous of all professional sports because of the length of the season. I’m looking forward to it.” He will also continue covering his [...]

by Stan Donaldson
Since Feb. 27, when 10 shots were fired at students sitting in the cafeteria at Chardon High School near Cleveland, I have been covering the story for The Plain Dealer. I went to the high school and talked with students and families about the shooting, which left three students dead and three wounded. [...]

by Carolina Hidalgo
There are plenty of press events and news stakeouts everywhere in the United States. But there is something different about New York City, which is blanketed daily by a critical mass of photographers, writers and camera crews. Sometimes they become the story, sometimes they construct it.
Covering news and events in New York City [...]