A Scholar’s reporting internship taught her about her strengths and weaknesses and helped refine her interests.

By Jillian Doria Ogawa
I started my day on Sept. 17, 2008 by interviewing sources for a follow-up story to my front-page article published in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader.

By 12:30 p.m., I received an unofficial pink slip through the rumor mill — I found out through coworkers that I was going to be laid off.

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1) Be proactive in finding sources, especially if the story is a sensitive one. Don’t rely only on public relations personnel. Seek help from newsroom colleagues.

2) Keep an ongoing list of the sources interviewed – and needed — for the story.

3) Once you’ve interviewed someone, take time to jot down a brief summary of what [...]

By Jackee Coe

CQS alum Ryan Hiraki
Age: 29
School: University of Nevada
Hometown: Hilo, Hawaii
Chips Quinn Internships: Summer 2001 at The Newport (R.I.) Daily News; Spring 2002 at the Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y.
Current Job: Graduate student at George Washington University pursuing a master’s degree in public relations and politics

As the politics reporter for The News-Press [...]

By Anthony Williams

It might as well have been a scene out of Sweet Home Alabama or New in Town.

I’m at a charity soup supper, surrounded in a church by people who all seem to know each other and, for the most part, already know me.

I enjoy some Gypsy soup in a handcrafted bowl and, after [...]

By Marjon Rostami

June 30 was my one-year anniversary at The Arizona Republic.

I came to the paper on a Pulliam Fellowship just as the company was offering buyouts, and I felt guilty when I was hired.

A few months later, I was there for the layoffs.

A couple months after that, I witnessed two quarters’ worth of furloughs.

Now, [...]

By Marco Santana, CQS ‘09

It was yet another lesson learned.

My editor at The Associated Press during my internship had given me an assignment.

Unfortunately, the assignment he gave me was not the assignment I heard.

Being in the business of communication, you would think I would know better than to assume I understood the assignment. I should [...]

A Scholar interviews a newsroom a former editor of hers who has remained a friend and mentor.

A Scholar interviews a longtime journalism professor about changes in the field.

He was a Summer 2008 Chips Quinn Scholar for the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. He discovered his passion for photojournalism while serving with the U.S. Army in Kosovo.