Three Students Awarded Dow Jones Newspaper Copy Editing and Business Reporting Summer Internships and Scholarships

This summer Jackie Stone heads to the Houston Chronicle copy desk while A.J. Miranda heads to the Denver Post business desk. Jackie is a senior in the magazine sequence who plans to graduate Fall '07. A.J. is also a senior in the magazine sequence; he plans to graduate Spring '08. Katherine Gaye Armstrong, a senior dual major in journalism and liberal arts, will be a copy editing intern at The Denver Post.

The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund offers annual summer internships in business reporting, newspaper copy editing and sports copy editing. With support from Yahoo! News, the Fund will offer 12 online editing internships. Each program provides free pre-internship training seminars on college campuses and weekly salaries starting at $350 for a minimum of 10 weeks. Interns who return to college full-time the following fall will receive $1,000 scholarships from the Fund. The application postmark deadline is Nov. 1 (next opportunity is for summer '08).

Some participating news organizations: The Wall Street Journal; The Associated Press; Reno Gazette-Journal; The Star Tribune; The Tennessean; The Denver Post; San Jose Mercury News; The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle; The New York Times; The Washington Post; Detroit Free Press; Philadelphia Inquirer; The Hartford Courant; The Standard-Times.

For more info on the internships and the associated scholarships go to: www.dowjones.com