by Colleen Fitzpatrick
The essays, slide shows and videos commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Chips Quinn Scholars program have all been published.

From the first contribution by Lori Price (Summer 1992) to the last by Jaz Gray (Summer 2009), not a single CQS class went unrepresented in the effort to honor the program. Chipsters everywhere shared [...]

Hello Amaris, Augusta, Dave, Elizabeth, Jacob, Josh, Katrina, Lindsay and Melvin,
This is our final set of blog questions, and they come from Lindsay and Josh.
Lindsay writes: “When there are other media outlets at a story that you too are covering, how do you tactfully and tastefully tell the other reporters to get lost? I [...]

Hello Scholars!
Our question this week comes from Melvin Felix, who would like to know:
“When you’re doing stories with a lot of data in it (where you have to go through databases and pull out a lot of numbers and compare them), do you have a useful method or program to help you do that ‘data-mining’? [...]

Hello Scholars!
A question from your coach this week: Please share a lede you’ve written during your internship and critique it for us.  If you think it’s effective, tell us why. If you think it could have been improved, tell us how. Etc.
For the designers and photogs among us, if you haven’t written a story or [...]

Hey Chipsters,
Katrina is our questioner this week — with sort of a double-header. She asks:
“How do you develop relationships with sources, especially as an intern or a new employee? I don’t have a business card of my own, so when I meet new people whom I’d like to stay in touch with, I [...]

Hello Friends,
Amaris Bailey is our question-poser this week. Amaris writes:
“Complacency is never a good thing, not in our social lives, our personal endeavors or even in our dreams for the future. Being bored at/with work can be especially detrimental. For us page designers/copy editors out there, complacency can lead to a lack of creativity, which [...]

Hey Scholars,
Enough with my questions. Now we turn the question-asking over to you.
Dave kicks off the convo with the following question:
“How can I develop my skills at taking notes? I rely heavily on my voice recorder, and I think that it slows me down when it comes to writing my stories. I take notes, but [...]

Hey Friends,
I believe three of us started this week — Josh, Elizabeth and Augusta? Congratulations and welcome to your new “homes” for the next several weeks. May you explore them like there’s no tomorrow!
Great questions, everyone! Well, almost everyone… :) For those who haven’t filed their question yet, please do so posthaste.
For this week, let’s each [...]

Dear David, Amaris, Katrina, Melvin, Elizabeth, Augusta, Lindsay, Jacob and Josh,
Welcome to our first discussion session!
As I said during orientation, we’ll be using this space for our weekly discussion. I’ll post the first question (at the end, here) and then everyone will take a turn asking a question about something that’s on their mind at [...]

Two for the Road (due April 19)
Hug a Photog (due April 12)
Juggling/Building rapport (due April 5)
Data-mining, efficiently (due March 22)
Getting the lead out (due March 14)
Sourcing it up (due March 7)
Keepin’ It Alive (due Feb. 27)
Efficient note-taking (due Feb. 20)
Our best advice (due Feb. 13)
Kicking it off (due Feb. 6)
Congrats, Friends!