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NYABJ wants to help
future journalists excel. Besides
offering a foundation for understanding
the newsgathering process, we have
also helped establish three area student
chapters - at Hofstra University,
Columbia University and New York University.
But NYABJ knows that education doesn't
come cheap. That's why over the last
two decades the chapter has bestowed
more than $55,000 in scholarships
to 300 area black college, high school
and junior high students.
For more information
about NYABJ Scholarships, please contact
Saundra
Booker, chairwoman of the chapter's
scholarship and student outreach committee.
Besides the annual journalism workshop,
the committee administers the annual
scholarship and essay competitions,
works with the chapter's fund raising
committee to raise scholarship money,
and solicits applications from area
journalism students and instructors.
Scholarship queries may also be sent
to
nyabj_scholarships@yahoo.com.
Stephen H. Gayle
Memorial Essay Contest
Metropolitan
area high school students interested
in journalism can win up to $500, and
students enrolled in colleges and universities
in New York can win up to $2,500 in
NYABJ's annual Stephen H. Gayle Memorial
Essay Contest. The contest was established
in 1986 in memory of Stephen H. Gayle,
a Brooklyn-based journalist whose stellar
career was silenced when he suffered
a fatal heart attack at age 34. Gayle
was managing editor of Black Enterprise.
He had also previously worked at Newsweek
and the New York Post.
Essay questions are based on news coverage
in the area during the year. The most
recent contest asked contestants to
write an essay of up to 750 words about
ONE of four possible questions. In light
of the World Trade Center attacks, three
of the questions asked students to debate
the media's coverage. As our our questions
normally cover a variety of media events
in New York and the nation, the 2001
contest focused on America's War against
Terrorism. The fourth question dealt
with Harlem's ongoing gentrification.
Entries are judged based on originality,
creativity, style, grammar, accuracy,
organization, thoroughness of reporting
and depth of understanding of issues.
Contestants must submit writing samples
from school or community newspapers,
newsletters or other student projects,
if applicable. A recommendation letter
from a school counselor or instructor,
preferably on school letterhead, and
your high school or college transcripts
are required.
Sylvia
L. Wilson Memorial Scholarship
Columbia University established
the Sylvia L. Wilson Memorial Scholarship
to honor the former New York Times copy
editor, a graduate of Columbia and Yale
Universities, who died of brain cancer
at age 28. The endowment exceeds $25,000
and is Columbia's first to salute an
African American journalist. The scholarship
is awarded to a minority student in
Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism,
with preference given to aspiring editors.
Wilson joined the Times as a copy editor
trainee in 1986 and, nearing the end
of that yearlong stint, underwent the
first of two operations to remove a
cerebral tumor. In early 1988, she returned
to copyedit the newspaper's Connecticut
Weekly section. But ill health forced
Wilson to stop working shortly before
a second operation in 1990. Her colleagues
and friends were touched and inspired
by the kindness, dignity, professionalism
and determination she displayed during
the last three and half years of her
life.
Donors may send checks or money orders
payable to:
Sylvia L. Wilson Memorial Scholarship
Fund
Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism
Journalism Building, Room 709A
New York, New York 10027
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