Editor’s note: The following blog entry by Marco Santana is being republished here with his permission.

By Marco Santana
To meet John Seigenthaler is to be inspired. The 82-year-old founder of the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tenn., has lived a life that you usually only read about. Starting in 1961, he served as an administrative assistant [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to the blog of the Spring 2010 class of Chips Quinn Scholars. These Scholars, along with three others selected for the Summer 2010 class, share insights as they answer questions about their craft during orientation and multimedia training in Nashville, Tenn.

Thurs., Jan. 21 (Day 1)
Fri., Jan. 22 (Day 2)
Sat., Jan. 23 [...]

Write about one thing you learned during the multimedia training that will change what you do, or are expecting to do, at your internship or job.

What person, presentation or session so far during orientation has had the greatest impact on you and why?
Photos by Val Hoeppner and Mary Ann Hogan

What was the most useful suggestion or piece of advice you heard today in terms of carrying out your duties as a (photo)journalist?
Photos by Diane S. W. Lee (Spring 2010) and Career coach Mary Ann Hogan

Please list a question you have about the practice or field of journalism. Explain why this question, or the answer to this question, is important to you.

Photos by Diane S. W. Lee (Spring 2010)

Editor’s note: Leezel Tanglao (CQS ’03), in an essay posted to the CQS Web site in September, wrote that amid all the upheavals in daily journalism, some joys endure. One is the network of professional and personal friends made through the Chips Quinn Scholars program. She seeks out and builds on this network wherever she [...]

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 [...]