NPW awards scholarships to UNO, UNL students

Nebraska Press Women offers two scholarships a year to students studying journalism at Nebraska colleges. The NPW Memorial Scholarship, with $500 awarded annually, is supported by money donated to a scholarship trust fund. The Excellence in Media Scholarship, with $300 awarded annually, is supported with proceeds of the annual Communications Contest open to members of NPW.

Michelle Bishop of Bellevue, a senior news editorial and photojournalism major at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been awarded the Nebraska Press Women Memorial Scholarship.

The scholarship is worth $500. The $300 Excellence in Media Scholarship went to Linsey Marshall, a news editorial major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Bishop serves as photo editor for Gateway, the student newspaper at UNO, after working her way up from staff photographer. In addition to her work for Gateway, she “fulfilled a goal I set in in high school ... to work for a major sports publication,” she said. She spent 10 days following the Tulane University baseball team at the College World Series for ESPN.com. “Even though the days were long, I realized I have one of the greatest occupations on earth,” she said in her application. “Few jobs offer the creativity where you can go do the same job every day, but come out with a new result each time.” Marshall, a junior from Sidney, Iowa, has worked as beat reporter for the Daily Nebraskan and has served as a publicist for the UNL student chapter of NPW.

“I am very interested in the First Amendment and how it protects media outlets,” she wrote in her application. “Because of my intense interest in the law and how it meshes with the media, I plan to attend law school. ... My dream is to one day work closely with the media in a major city.”

For more information on scholarships to be awarded for the 2007-08 academic year, contact Glennis Nagel at (308) 865-8454 or e-mail her Nagelg@unk.edu.

Winners of the NPW Memorial Scholarship the past 10 years are:

2006: Michelle Bishop, University of Nebraska-Omaha
2004:
2003: Jennifer Myers, Nebraska Wesleyan University
2002:
2001: Valeria R. Robert, University of Nebraska at Omaha
2000:
1999: Sarah Fox, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1998: 1997: Stacy Rande, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1996: Mary Woods, Chadron State College
1995: Melissa Dunne, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Winners of the NPW Excellence in Media Scholarship from the past 10 years are:

2006: Linsey Marshall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2004:
2003: Amanda Sauder, Union College
2002:
2001: Tiffany Schmitz, Wayne State College
2000:
1999: Kristi Mehlhoff, Chadron State College
1998:
1997: Jessica Kennedy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1996: Becky Lagler, Chadron State College 1995: Rainbow Rowell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln