AAJA will award up to $2,000 to a currently enrolled college student or graduating high school senior who is pursuing journalism as a career.
Eligibility and Rules:
1. Applicants must be committed to AAJA’s mission.
2. Applicants must demonstrate journalistic excellence, a strong interest in pursing journalism as a career, and a commitment to community involvement.
3. Applicants must be a graduating high school senior, undergraduate, or graduate student enrolled full time with at least 12 credit units each semester for the fall of 2015 and spring of 2016. Applicants must be currently taking or planning to take journalism courses and/or pursing journalism as a career.
Selection Criteria:
Candidates will be selected on the basis of academic achievement, demonstrated journalistic ability, financial need, commitment to the field of journalism and/or sensitivity to Asian American/Pacific Islander issues. AAJA student membership is encouraged for all applicants and required for the selected scholarship recipients. For membership, please apply online at http://www.aaja.org.
Please email Justin Seiter at justins@aaja.org with any questions.
The application deadline is Sunday, May 3 at 11:59 PM PST.
Dorothy Ing Russell established the Mary Quon Moy Ing Memorial Scholarship in honor of her mother. Dorothy was The Washington Post’s first Asian American editor and writer and its second woman editor in the city room. While on the national copy desk, she edited stories on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination and the riots in Washington, D.C. In the early 1970s, she was the only woman editor on the Post’s Metro copy desk and helped edit the Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series on the Watergate break-in and cover-up written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
More information is available at http://www.aaja.org/2015-mary-quon-moy-ing/.