Press Club announces annual scholarships
The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania is taking applications for its
13th annual $5,000 Bob Fryer Memorial Scholarship as well as the $2,500
Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Scholarship awarded to aspiring
journalists.
The awards are designed to encourage outstanding undergraduate journalism
students in print, broadcasting and multimedia.
The scholarships will be awarded in May 2019 in Pittsburgh at the annual
Golden Quills Awards Dinner sponsored by The Press Club.
Candidates must be current sophomores or juniors enrolled in an accredited
college or university. They must be able to demonstrate why they should
receive the award. Their primary residence must be in one of the 29 counties
of Western Pennsylvania (see list below).
The scholarship money will be credited to the winners’ accounts at their
university or college. The winners also will receive a plaque in recognition
of the award.
Deadline for applications is Feb. 4, 2019. The scholarship committee will
review applications and award the scholarships. The winner will be notified
by April 15.
An application can be downloaded here.*
Applications and supporting materials can be mailed to The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania
at Engineers’ Building, 337 Fourth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or
emailed to
pressclubwpa@yahoo.com. Or
submit the materials using
Google docs or
Dropbox and share with
pressclubwpa@yahoo.com .
For further information, contact scholarship committee chairman Rick Monti at
rick.monti@gmail.com or 412-600-0606 or The Press Club of Western
Pennsylvania at
pressclubwpa@yahoo.com or 412-281-7778.
See videos of some of the previous winners of the Bob Fryer Memorial Scholarship
HERE.
Counties: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria , Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer, Potter, Somerset, Venango, Warren, Washington, Westmoreland.