Scholarships

Applications for the 2025 Bernard Kilgore and Bob Stevens Memorial scholarships, sponsored by the New Jersey Press Foundation and the Garden State Scholastic Press Association, are currently being accepted and must be postmarked no later than Feb. 7, 2025.

To be eligible for the $5,000 Kilgore Scholarship, an applicant must:

• Graduate from a New Jersey school this year.
• Plan to study journalism/media studies in college and pursue a career in the media.
• Have a GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
• Have participated in high school journalism for at least two years.
• Be nominated by a teacher at a GSSPA-member school or an editor at a NJPA-member newspaper.

To be eligible for the $2,000 Stevens Scholarship, an applicant must:

• Graduate from a New Jersey school this year.
• Have a GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
• Have participated in high school journalism for at least two years.
• Be nominated by a teacher at a GSSPA-member school.

For more information, please consult the applications links above.