Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship
Scholarship applications must be
received by February 15, 2010
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.
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