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About the New Jersey Press Foundation
It all started with a $100 scholarship to a college journalism student. The New Jersey Press Foundation, which was founded in 1962 as the NJPA Scholarship Fund, Inc., every year awards more than $40,000 in scholarships and internships and supports other programs that promote journalism careers and newspaper readership among New Jersey residents. The foundation sponsors the following programs: - A statewide Newspaper-in-Education & Youth Readership initiative, including a Web site (www.njreadforlife.org) and programs that include essay contests that involve thousands of high school, middle school and elementary school students throughout New Jersey. - The Internship/Scholarship Program for college students who are offered paid internships at New Jersey daily and weekly newspapers and a scholarship at the end of the summer. - The Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship awarded to the New Jersey High School Journalist of the Year. - The Richard Drukker Memorial Scholarship for a journalism student attending Montclair State University. - The Teachers at Newspapers Program offers a paid summer internship at a New Jersey newspaper for a high school journalism teacher. - The New Jersey High School Journalism Teacher of the Year is the state's nominee for the national teacher awards program. - The Isaac Roth Newspaper Carrier Scholarship Program awards college scholarships to outstanding carriers who deliver New Jersey newspapers. - The New Jersey Collegiate Press Association, including the annual Better College Newspaper Contest and a Web site: www.njcollegepress.org . - The Hugh N. Boyd Journalism Diversity Workshop for high school students who are interested in newspaper careers.
Contact UsOn behalf of our Trustees, thank you for your interest in the New Jersey Press Foundation. George White Thomas E. Engleman Our mailing address is: 840 Bear Tavern Road, Suite 305
2008 TrusteesPresident: Richard Bilotti, The Times of Trenton
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