Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship
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The Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship will be
awarded following a statewide competition sponsored by the Garden State
Scholastic Press Association and the New Jersey Press Foundation.
The scholarship, valued at $5,000, will be awarded by the New
Jersey Press Foundation, which administers the Bernard
Kilgore Memorial Scholarship Fund.
 The recipient will be
named the New Jersey High School Journalist of the Year and will
be 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 the
GSSPA Spring Advisers’ Conference in May and at the New Jersey
Press Association’s editorial awards banquet in April.
Selection of the scholarship recipient will be done by editors of
New Jersey newspapers.
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, following
the selection of Bernard Kilgore in 2000 as the Business
Journalist of the 20th Century by the TJFR Group.
Bernard Kilgore was the dominant figure at The Wall Street
Journal and its parent corporation, Dow Jones and Co., Inc.,
for more than a quarter century. He is credited with changing The
Journal from a small financial newspaper to the
nation’s only national daily newspaper at the time of his
death in 1967. He was 59 years old.
He purchased The Princeton Packet in 1955, just as The
Wall Street Journal was beginning to become large and
successful. He 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.
Kilgore believed strongly that the newspaper business needed to
identify and encourage more talented writers and editors in order
to remain strong and profitable. He founded The Newspaper Fund in
1958 to address that concern; one of that foundation’s first
programs sent inexperienced high school journalism teachers back
to college to study journalism during the summer months.
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