by Meena Thiruvengadam

I thought I was going to learn to shoot and edit video, to figure out Final Cut Pro, Soundslides and Audacity during a multimedia storytelling seminar at The Poynter Institute in September. I did each of those things and came away with much more.
Others have described Poynter seminars as something of a religious [...]

Happy New Year!

As 2011 begins, my colleagues and I are preparing for our 36th orientation program — to be held in Nashville, Tenn., in January — where we will welcome 18 to 20 new journalists into the Freedom Forum/Chips Quinn Scholars family.

This new year also marks a milestone in the CQS [...]

Moving on:
Tori Sanchez (Summer 2005) is a Santa Barbara reporter for KCOY Channel 12. Previously she was a public information specialist for Workforce Investment Board of Santa Barbara County.

Daniel Sato (Summer 2007) is a digital storyteller for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. He says, “The position is a mix of video, website maintenance and [...]

WASHINGTON – The 2010 Chips Achievement Prizes (CAPs) were announced this week, after Chips Quinn Scholars from the spring and summer classes submitted entries whose topics ranged from immigration protests to “green” burials to a teen with Asperger’s syndrome who published his first book, and whose story forms included print, online and multimedia.
“These were difficult [...]

by Meena Thiruvengadam

When it comes to politics, I don’t take sides. But I’m always for seeing Indian Americans make history, as Nikki Haley did last week when she became the first woman and first racial minority to be elected governor of South Carolina, one of the nation’s most conservative states.

Haley, 38, a Republican, is set [...]

Promotions:
LaSharah Bunting (Summer 1999) has been promoted to deputy Metropolitan editor, Metro’s Sunday section of The New York Times. Previously she was staff editor for the paper’s Culture section. “One of her first tasks will be working with the section’s Web producer to create a unifying and dynamic online presence for [...]

No fanfare. That’s been the stance of John C. Quinn when it comes to his birthday and other personal events.
For the most part, we’ve respected the wish of the venerable co-founder of the Chips Quinn Scholars program. But this year we say, “Sorry, John. It’s time to blow that attitude out of the water.”
It’s not [...]

by Colleen Fitzpatrick, CQS career coach

As digital publication and social media continue to create opportunities and challenges for newsrooms, some things never change: the principles of news-gathering and storytelling that are grounded in fairness, accuracy and credibility.

That was one message from last week’s Associated Press Managing Editors’ (APME’s) NewsTrain/Nashville conference in Tennessee. About 100 journalists [...]

Moving on:
Erik Ortiz (Spring 2002) is a reporter for Newsday in Melville, N.Y. Previously he was a reporter for The Press of Atlantic City in New Jersey.

Hatzel Vela (Summer 2003) is a reporter for KNXV, the ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Ariz. Previously he was a reporter for the CBS affiliate in Charleston, S.C., for [...]