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 [...]

By Adolfo Flores

During my internship at The Dispatch in Lexington, N.C., I worked on a piece about a student whose residency in the United States was undocumented.

North Carolina doesn’t allow students who are children of undocumented workers to enroll in institutions of higher education in the state so the young woman I wrote about was [...]

By Jamie Hughes

In June 2008, I sat at a luncheon with a panel of media executives from the Sioux Falls, S.D. area. I was a student at the American Indian Journalism Institute.

Another student asked Randell Beck, then executive editor of the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls and now the newspaper’s publisher, what he looked for [...]

By Derek Sijder
LEARN HOW TO USE FILL FLASH

I hardly used flash for my photographs, but by the end of my internship I never left home without it. Natural light is the first thing a photographer should look for, but we often face unfavorable lighting conditions. I found my flash particularly helpful when shooting indoors and [...]

By Andrea Vasquez

I had never been to the South, nor had I given the region much thought outside history class, Hurricane Katrina and Lynyrd Skynyrd songs. I first heard of Vicksburg , Miss., about a month before I moved to the port city, population 26,000, at the bottom of the Mississippi Delta.

Despite [...]

By April Gregory

I’m generally a fan of sports but if there’s one I don’t like, it is baseball. I’ve tried to be open-minded about it. I’ve given it a fair chance. Still, I fail to understand why so many people love the game.

As you can imagine, I was not excited when I learned that [...]

By Emma Carew

“Oh, you’re interested in business reporting?”
This was the phrase I heard constantly from recruiters at the 2008 UNITY Convention in Chicago.

If I answered yes (I was a business news intern at the time, and it seemed to be going well, so I figured why not?), it generally bought me an extra five [...]

Telecommuters who do administrative tasks, usually on a contractual basis, bring specialized skills and don’t receive benefits — or even desks.

By Emma L. Carew
The Washington Post

Published: July 10, 2009

Washington — Michael Hanik used to have 12 employees, a warehouse and trucks to run his medical devices catalog company.

But four years ago, he turned to the [...]

Hearing loss once rendered Redmond’s Ashley Bruce nearly deaf. That’s never stopped her from performing, though; soon, she’ll be on stage singing Ashley, 11, stars in Redmond High’s production of ‘Annie’ this week

By Nicole Santa Cruz
The Bulletin
Published: May 3, 2009
REDMOND —

The first time Ashley Bruce stepped on stage, she stopped the world for [...]

By Jackie Coe
The Arizona Republic
Published: March 9, 2009
Registered sex offenders who live in the Valley can expect more frequent knocks on their doors.
The Buckeye Police Department is the latest local law-enforcement agency to start monitoring sex offenders more often than the state-mandated annual visit. Some will be watched as frequently as once a month.
Public-safety officials [...]