Scholarship applications must be received by February 15, 2012
The Bernard Kilgore Memorial
Scholarship will be awarded following a statewide competition sponsored by the
New Jersey Press Foundation and the Garden State Scholastic Press Association.
The scholarship
– valued
at $5,000
– is
awarded by New Jersey Press Foundation, which administers the Bernard Kilgore
Memorial Scholarship Fund. The scholarship recipient is selected by a panel of
New Jersey newspaper editors.
The recipient also is named GSSPA's New Jersey High
School Journalist of the Year and is entered in a competition for the National
High School Journalist of the Year, operated by the Journalism Education
Association.
The Kilgore Scholarship recipient will be announced at New Jersey Press
Association’s editorial awards banquet in April and at the GSSPA Spring
Advisers’ Conference in May.
The Kilgore Scholarship is possible because of gifts to the New Jersey Press
Foundation from the Kilgore family and friends, The Princeton Packet
and the Dow Jones Foundation.
Bernard Kilgore was the dominant figure at The Wall Street Journal and
its parent corporation, Dow Jones and Company, for more than a quarter century.
He purchased The Princeton Packet in 1955, just as The Wall Street
Journal was beginning to become large and successful. Kilgore created
The National Observer, the nation’s first national weekly newspaper, built
up Barron’s
financial weekly, and expanded the Dow Jones News Service into a world-wide
supplier of business and financial news. At the time of his death in 1967, the
Journal had grown from a small financial newspaper into the only national
daily newspaper. Kilgore was 59 years old when he died. In 2000, he was honored
posthumously by TJFR Group as the Business Journalist of the 20th Century.
Kilgore's commitment to the nation's young journalists was demonstrated by his leadership in creating the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, a foundation devoted to encouraging young people to pursue careers in journalism. He believed that the newspaper business needed to identify and encourage more talented writers and editors in order to remain strong and profitable. The Newspaper Fund, founded in 1958, was to help address that concern. One of that foundation’s first programs was to send inexperienced high school journalism teachers back to college to study journalism during the summer months.
Click for Kilgore Scholarship application.