About the New Jersey Press Foundation

It began in 1962 with a $100 scholarship awarded to a college journalism student.  And over the years 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.

The New Jersey Press Foundation is awarding $17,000 in scholarships in 2009 in addition to providing over $12,000 in funding for summer journalism paid-internships. 

Current foundation programs and sponsorships include the:

• Summer Internship/Scholarship Program for college students awarded eight-week paid internships at New Jersey daily and weekly newspapers plus a scholarship upon successful completion.
   
• Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a high school journalist bound for a collegiate journalism program and jointly named 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.
   
• Hugh N. Boyd Journalism Diversity Workshop, a two-week live-on-campus summer workshop for New Jersey high school students interested in newspaper careers.
   
• Statewide Newspaper-in-Education & Youth Readership Committee.

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

Contact Us

George White
Foundation Director
609-406-0600, ext. 30
FAX: 609-406-0300
gwhite@njpa.org

Our mailing address is:

New Jersey Press Foundation
840 Bear Tavern Road, Suite 305
West Trenton, NJ 08628-1019

New Jersey Press Foundation
2009 Trustees

President: Arthur R. Hall, Cape May County Herald Times
Vice President: Bruce R. Tomlinson, New Jersey Herald, Newton
Treasurer: Frank Gargano, Gloucester County Times
Secretary: John J. O'Brien, New Jersey Press Association

Richard Bilotti, New Jersey Press Association past-president
Jennifer Borg, North Jersey Media Group
Ronald J. Czajkowski, New Jersey Press Association past-director
James B. Kilgore, The Princeton Packet
Ronald Morano, FirstEnergy Corporation/JCP&L
Elizabeth K. Parker, Recorder Community Newspapers, Stirling
Richard J. Vezza, Penn Jersey Advance, Flemington
Raymond Worrall, Worrall Community Newspapers, Union

New Jersey Press Foundation
840 Bear Tavern Road, Suite 305
West Trenton, NJ 08628-1019
Phone 609-406-0600 – Fax 609-406-0300