It began in 1962 with a $100 scholarship awarded to a college journalism student.  Over the years since, the foundation has expanded with a mission to help develop the next generation of journalists and informed citizens, and to promote the importance of a free press to our democracy.

In 2012, New Jersey Press Foundation is awarding $12,000 in scholarships and providing more than $13,000 in funding for summer journalism paid-internships — more than $25,000 total.

Current foundation programs and sponsorships include the:

• Summer Internship Program, awarded to five college students, eight-week paid internships at New Jersey daily and weekly newspapers.
   
• Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a high school journalist bound for a collegiate journalism program. The recipient also is named the Garden State Scholastic Press Association's High School Journalist of the Year.
   
• Richard Drukker Memorial Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding student-journalist attending Montclair State University.
   
• Lloyd P. Burns Teachers at Newspapers Program, for an outstanding high school journalism teacher/newspaper advisor awarded a four-week paid summer internship in a New Jersey newsroom. 
   
• Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding carrier or the son or daughter of an outstanding carrier delivering a New Jersey newspaper.
   
• Garden State Scholastic Press Association, primarily through NJPF's support and partial funding of its Robert Stevens Memorial Scholarship.
   
• New Jersey Collegiate Press Association, including operation of its annual New Jersey College Newspaper Contest, and the annual Spring Conference & Awards Luncheon.
   
• Newspaper-in-Education & Youth Readership Committee.

For information about other foundation programs, please visit, www.njpressfoundation.org.

Contact Us

John J. O'Brien, Foundation Director
New Jersey Press Foundation
840 Bear Tavern Road, Suite 305
West Trenton, NJ 08628-1019

609-406-0600, ext. 13
Fax: 609-406-0300
jjobrien@njpa.org

New Jersey Press Foundation
2012 Trustees

President:  Jennifer Borg, North Jersey Media Group
Vice President:  Jennifer Chciuk, The West Essex Tribune
Treasurer:  Richard Vezza, The Star-Ledger
Secretary:  George White, New Jersey Press Association

Ronald Czajkowski, New Jersey Press Association past-director
Keith Dawn, The Press of Atlantic City
James Kilgore, The Princeton Packet
Ronald Morano, FirstEnergy Corporation/JCP&L
Elizabeth Parker, Recorder Community Newspapers
Stephan Parker, Recorder Community Newspapers