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2012 Scholarship and Internship
Deadlines

Summer Internship Program - Revised for 2012. NJPF will award five (5) eight-week $3,200 paid summer internships at New Jersey newspapers.
Deadline: December 30, 2011

Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship - $5,000 scholarship awarded to recipient also named Garden State Scholastic Press Association's 2012 New Jersey High School Journalist of the Year.
Deadline: February 15, 2012

Mac Borg New Media Internship - NEW for 2012! Paid summer internship worth $2,100 to college student who is pursuing a career in journalism and wants to expand beyond the traditional newspaper experience.
Deadline: March 15, 2012

Richard Drukker Memorial Scholarship - $2,000 awarded to an outstanding Montclair State University student journalist.
Deadline: March 29, 2012

Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarship - $2,000 awarded to a New Jersey newspaper carrier or the child of an adult carrier.
Deadline: March 30, 2012

For more information about these programs, contact John O'Brien, NJPF director, at (609) 406-0600, ext. 13, or jjobrien@njpa.org.


 2011 Kilgore Scholarship Winner
NJ High School Journalist of the Year


Yahui Liang
, a senior at John P. Stevens High School, has been awarded the foundation's 2011 Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship.  She received the award and was jointly honored as New Jersey's High School Journalist of the Year at the New Jersey Press Association's "Press Night" editorial awards banquet held April 8 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Jamesburg.
 


2011 Summer Internship & Scholarship Recipients

Four collegiate journalists from New Jersey received paid  internships this summer and were placed at an NJPA member newsroom.  In addition, each was awarded a $1,000 scholarship following successful completion of the program. Click here for details.


New Jersey Press Foundation
Mission Statement

To help develop the next generation of journalists and informed citizens,
and to promote the importance of a free press to our democracy.



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Send your donation by mail or online.

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2012 NJ Collegiate Newspaper Contest

Deadline: March 9, 2012

Check out the winners of the 2010-11 NJ College Newspaper Contest on the New Jersey Collegiate Press Association website.
 

Youth-Readership Publications and Curriculum Guides

Mock Election Curriculum Resources

Thomas Paine: An American Patriot

A Profile of Courage
Woman of the World: The  Story of Nellie Bly

Curriculum guide for First Amendment studies
Grades 5-7
Grades 8-12



Founded in 1962 as the charitable arm of the New Jersey Press Association.

NJPF is a charitable 501(c)(3) foundation for inspiring youth readership, advancing student journalism, providing scholarships and professional internships, and boosting the public’s understanding of the free press and its role in our democratic society.

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