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AP and Google Announce Digital Journalism Scholarships

  • The Associated Press, Google announce scholarships open to aspiring digital journalists; ONA to administer

    The Associated Press and Google today announced a new national scholarship program intended to foster digital and new media skills in student journalists. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, will administer the program.

    The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. The program is targeted to individual students creating innovative projects that further the ideals of digital journalism. A key goal is to promote geographic, gender and ethnic diversity, with an emphasis on rural and urban areas.

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  • visit ap-google.onlinenewsassociation.org/
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  • Posted by Bob Stewart on 08.16.2011 @ 00:00:00