Updated Thursday, March 9, 2006
Gather.com announces its first annual Citizen Journalism Scholarship Contest. Two talented journalism students - one graduate student and one undergraduate student - will each win a $1000 scholarship and the opportunity to intern at HuffingtonPost.com in New York or Los Angeles. The scholarships will be awarded on Monday, May 15, 2006 to the two students who best represent the new age of citizen journalism. Two additional runners up will be offered the honor of interning at HuffingtonPost.com. The contest will be judged by Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post©.
Contest Dates: Wednesday, March 1, 2006 - Monday, May 15, 2006
Details:
- Submissions should portray a real life, eyewitness account or personally researched story about a current event (news, politics, sports etc.).
- Students should submit articles between 500 - 1,500 words.
- Multiple entries are permitted.
- Photos are encouraged.
- All submissions for consideration must come from a .edu email. address. Only US journalism students are eligible.
- Gather judges will narrow the entry pool down to twenty finalists: 10 undergraduate and 10 graduate students.
- The academic standing of all 20 finalists will be verified before selection.
- The judge, Arianna Huffington, will choose two scholarship recipients, one undergraduate student and one graduate student, from the 20 finalists. She will also select two runners up, one undergraduate student and one graduate student, for additional Huffingtonpost.com internships.
- Winners will be announced in a press release and on Gather.com on Monday, May 15, 2006.
Awards:
- Two $1,000 scholarships awarded to the two journalism students - one full-time undergraduate journalism student, and one full-time graduate journalism student - who submit articles that best represent citizen journalism.
- The top 4 journalism students (including the winners) - will be offered full-time, unpaid internships at The Huffington Post for the 2006 summer (June - August) or fall period (September - December) in the New York or Los Angeles office. The winners will be given preference and runners up offered the remaining internship spots.
Contest Calendar:
Wednesday, March 1, 2006: Contest launches
Monday, May 1, 2006, 11:59EST: Contest entries due
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 - Monday, May 8, 2006: Judging by Gather Editorial Team
Monday, May 8, 2006: 20 finalists announced
Monday, May 8, 2006 - Thursday, May 11, 2006: Judging by Arianna Huffington
Friday, May 12, 2006: 2 winners and 2 runners up notified
Monday, May 15, 2006: Winners announced on Gather.com
For more information visit:
Contest Rules
or email: Citizenjournalism@gatherinc.com
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Comments: 21
Even an idiot like Tucker Carlson would have made it fun...
[sigh]..
The students we have heard from find the opportunity to work in the space with a recognized voice and on a growing publication particularly compelling. Providing a resume-building work opportunity is as important to many of our student-authors as the scholarship itself.
Gather was built on the premise that we can all learn from one another and that we benefit from hearing a diverse set of opinions as we form our own. We will have contributors, contests and judges from many different areas of expertise sharing their thoughts over time.
We would love your suggestions for futures contests/hosts. As always, please drop me a line on feedback@gather.com or using Gather's messaging system with your suggestions for future scholarships and contests anytime. Thanks for your thoughts on how to make Gather a better community.
Kind of interesting that in the rest of the promo's I saw on here Arianna Huffington was relegated to the fine print.
L.
see you deleted your comment above mine and posted below.. your choice, but still as harsh as any liberal screed I'd seen. It may well be 'BS', but to sink to calling it that only weakens your point.
i'll take the b.s. expert's word on that.
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tom - what the hell is a "citizen journalist" - and how many "citizen journalists" are in school?
i said it in the "other" thread on this contest, wherever it went - that i think this contest is unfair to non-student citizen journalists.
i do this for free - and would love a job at huffingtonpost.
oh, well.
When workplaces advertise for interns, they cannoit discriminate against older people (i.e., people no longer in their 20s, or recent grads) to fill intern slots. Otherwise, employers are at risk for a discrimination suit. Caselaw abounds with this.
Think I'll do some investigative reporting in this area.
If the former, how many actual journalism students are members of Gather?
If the latter, it doesn't matter.
"It may well be 'BS', but to sink to calling it that only weakens your point."
If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck it's a duck. not a DK
Give us a break...That word makes me want to puke.
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bruce ! - for someone apparently as repulsed as you, how do you know who her columnists are?
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liberals - if the word makes you want to puke, then why did you put it in your comment seven times?
you guys are masochists.
I am not...in fact I have never given anyone a masoge.