The Intermarkets-Lucido Journalism Scholarship Fund
Purpose:
The Intermarkets-Lucido Journalism 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
- Provide two published articles or graded essays that reflect the candidate’s writing style
- Submit an essay (approx. 200 words) that answers the question: "What are three character traits that a journalist should have and why?"
- Submit 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 2, 2010
Recipient announcement: July 18, 2010
Management of scholarship fund: Northern Virginia Community Foundation (NVCF); www.novacf.org
