Google in partnership with Associated Press (AP) is inviting applications for AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program initiated to promote digital and new media skills in student journalists. This program will be administered by the Online News Association. This scholarship program is perfect for the undergraduate or graduate students in the U.S. who have some new ideas about news or have created original journalistic content with computer science elements.
The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. The program is targeted to individual students creating innovative projects that further the ideals of digital journalism. A key goal is to promote geographic, gender and ethnic diversity, with an emphasis on rural and urban areas.
Irving Washington, consulting Scholarship Manager for ONA, will manage the application process. Washington is a nonprofit media education consultant who created new partnerships for the scholarship and internship programs for the National Association of Black Journalists, and managed scholarship, fellowship and internship programs as Diversity/Education Coordinator for the Radio-Television Digital News Foundation. He holds degrees in Journalism and Public Relations from Ball State University.
Eligibility and Provisions
The scholarships are open to college sophomores or higher with at least one year of full-time undergraduate or graduate study remaining. Applicants must submit a project or concept that explains how his or her strategy moves digital journalism forward. Scholarship winners also will receive a one-year ONA membership and recognition at ONA’s 2012 conference in San Francisco.
Applications are now open for the 2012-13 academic year. Scholars will be chosen in Spring 2012.
Last date for submitting the applications is January 27, 2012.
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