From the site:
Knight Ridder, the nation’s second largest newspaper company and a major provider of information online, seeks four or five exceptional high school seniors each year and offers them the chance of a lifetime. Students who are passionate and talented can get into our business early, meet the power players, and learn to shape its future.
It’s a package that includes up to $40,000 over four years, four paid summer internships and guaranteed employment after college. These are possibly the best scholarships in the news business.
We seek applicants from across the country – everywhere our company has newspapers.
[Knight Ridder doesn’t own a newspaper in New Jersey, but its digital division does operate many of the newspaper sites in the state (such as that of The Star-Ledger and Jersey Journal).]
In considering candidates, editors at our local companies look for a demonstrated interest in newspapering, and examine grades and test scores. They select local winners. Local winners are nominated for the national scholarship competition. The national winners are chosen from those nominees.
There are two scholarship catoegories: Business Scholars and News Scholars.
Business Scholars have the opportunity to complete internships in advertising, marketing, information technology, circulation, and all the other areas that make our business tick.
News Scholars go to work in our newsrooms – writing and editing stories, taking photographs, crafting illustrations and designing news pages.
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