Two students in the School of Communications have been selected as recipients of the Scripps Howard Foundation Scholarship.
Grace Dimond and Jeff Ackermann will receive a $3,000 internship grant this summer from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The Scripps Howard Foundation will also award them a $500 scholarship upon completion of their internships. Scholarship applicants will be required to submit four to five samples of their multimedia work from their summer internships and an evaluation from their internship supervisor.
Grace Dimond is a junior broadcast and new media major from Chevy Chase, Md. Grace is a Presidential Scholar and an astronomy teaching assistant. She has spent much of her time in the editing suites learning about television production. While spending her spring semester studying in Florence, Italy, she fulfilled her love of traveling with trips to Spain, Croatia and Greece. For the past two summers she has been a counselor at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville, Md., working with teenagers with special needs. She will be interning this summer at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-Office of Multimedia in Washington, D.C.
Jeff Ackermann has wanted to be a journalist for as long as he can remember. Jeff started his career by working on his high school’s morning news show and writing for his hometown’s newspaper, the West Essex Tribune. He came to Elon as a Communications Fellow and served as a reporter for Phoenix14News throughout his freshman year. He is currently Phoenix14News’ assignment manager and is passionate about becoming a producer once he graduates. This summer he will be interning at WPIX-TV in New York, where he will be working with both reporters and producers as a multimedia intern.
The Scripps Howard Foundation strives to advance the cause of a free press through support of excellence in journalism, quality journalism education and professional development.