Scholarships/Financial Aid
Journalism students have the opportunity to earn scholarship awards and pursue experiential internships because of generous gifts from our alumni and friends. Below are some scholarships designed especially for journalism students. Outside scholarships are also listed on the department web site >>
Excellence in Journalism
For students of Journalism, to enable students to pursue a career in newspaper journalism. Recipients are selected based on their expressed interested in a career in newspapers.
Vivian Luu, right, is awarded a scholarship by Assunta Ng ('74, '79), publisher of Northwest Asian Weekly, during the 2009 Scholarship Awards Ceremony.
Pioneer Newspapers Excellence in Journalism Awards
Annual awards are given in the following categories: Opinion journalism, visual journalism, legislative journalism, community journalism, feature journalism, diversity journalism, digital journalism, environmental journalism, and global journalism.
Journalism Foreign Intrigue Endowed Scholarship
The Journalism Foreign Intrigue Scholarship was established by a UW Journalism alum, and provides financial support for a journalism student to work as an intern reporter at a foreign newspaper and to travel after the internship. The donor's goal is to give journalism students exposure to another culture and a more thorough understanding of journalism and culture.
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Seattle Times/Blethen Family Memorial Scholarship
Awarded to ethnic minority students with an interest in print journalism or print advertising.
Don Pember Journalism Endowed Scholarship
The Don Pember Journalism Scholarship supports scholarships for journalism students, with preference for community college transfer students or journalism students with a strong interest in media law.
Don joined the University of Washington faculty in 1969 and served as a mentor to many undergraduate and graduate students. He received the UW's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award in 1973 and was recognized two years later for excellence in teaching by the Carnegie Foundation. His path-breaking work on privacy led to Privacy and the Press (1979) and he has been a significant leader in mass communication through two popular textbooks. There were six editions of Mass Media and America and, as of the summer of 2007, Don is working on the 16th edition of his highly regarded Mass Media Law.
