The Intermarkets-Lucido Journalism Scholarship Fund
Established November 2007

Purpose: Scholarship Fund was created to recognize an outstanding graduating High School Senior who will be majoring in journalism and who promotes and understands the importance of non-biased journalism in the United States media.

Scholarship Award: $5,000

Scholarship Criteria:

• U.S. Citizen
• Legal resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Graduating senior from any public or private Virginia high school
• Majoring/planning to major in journalism at an accredited, U.S. 4-year college or university to which the candidate has been accepted
• Able to present three published articles that reflect the candidate’s writing style
• Candidate submits an essay that takes a current article from a major U.S. newspaper that the candidate views as biased reporting/journalism and describes in 500+ words why it is biased and how it should be changed.
• Extracurricular activities
• Academic Excellence
  

Application Deadline: April 30, 2008
 
Recipient Announcement: By July 15, 2008
 
Management of Scholarship Fund: Northern Virginia Community Foundation (NVCF); www.novacf.org

Download Application for Academic Year 2008-2009