Recipients Announced for Eight Business Journalism Scholarships

Eight university students from around the country who have shown promise in the field of business journalism were awarded $4,000 scholarships from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

After being nominated by a faculty member on the basis of achievements, each student wrote a theme and provided published works to indicate proficiency in and an aptitude for business journalism. This is the inaugural year of the scholarships, which are for the 2008-2009 academic year.

“Quality business journalism starts at the university level and through these scholarships we hope to foster ongoing improvement of the field,” said Andrew Leckey, Director of the Reynolds Center, located at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. “The nominating professors also deserve credit for going the extra mile to encourage the talent of outstanding students.”

The business journalism scholarship recipients are:

--Jason Borseth of the University of Missouri

--Eliot Caroom of City University of New York

--Charles Cutter of Indiana University

--Amanda Getchel of Ball State University

--Wee Sui Lee of New York University

--Ashley Macha of Arizona State University

--Carlos Macias of Baruch College

--Brigitte Yuille of Florida International University

ABOUT THE CENTER
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, located at ASU’s Cronkite School, was launched in 2003. Nearly 7,000 working journalists around the country have taken part in the Center’s programs, which include daylong business journalism workshops, weeklong online seminars and one-hour self-guided tutorials. The Center also offers daily business journalism coverage at BusinessJournalism.org; internships and scholarships in the field; and runs the Barlett & Steele Awards for excellence in investigative business journalism.

The Center is funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, a national philanthropic organization founded in 1954 by the late media entrepreneur for whom it is named. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., it is one of the largest private foundations in the United States.

The Cronkite School at Arizona State, named in honor of the long-time CBS news anchor, is a leading professional journalism school with nearly 1,700 undergraduate and master’s students.

Copyright © 2008 Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism