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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The 2009 Chips Achievement Prizes (CAPs) were announced this week with six Chips Quinn Scholars from the 2009 Spring and Summer classes recognized for outstanding journalism enterprise.

“Again, our Scholars have shown the journalism world that age and experience have little, if anything, to do with excellence,” said Karen Catone, director of the [...]

By Jakob Rodgers, CQS ‘09

With each passing month at the Greeley (Colo.) Daily Tribune, my story assignments have grown ever more challenging. After a year and a half at the paper and about two-thirds of the way through my Chips Quinn internship, I was assigned to a story that would receive the hallowed “Special Report” label [...]

Hey Scholars,
Our question this week comes from Emma: Once you’ve got a glimmer of a story idea, how do you efficiently flesh it out to where it becomes a solid, working story line that you can pitch to your editor?
In your response, you may describe how you did it using a specific story [...]

Hey Scholars: For our first post, let’s talk about how to generate story ideas when you’re brandy-new to a community. How, and where, are you finding your story ideas? What tips re: story ideas do you have for the rest of us? Thanks, Coach Col.

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