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RTDNF scholarships are open to enrolled students (freshmen excluded) who are pursuing careers in radio, television and digital news. Winners also receive an expenses-paid trip to the RTDNA International Conference and a one-year membership in RTDNA.
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Lou Prato served as RTNDA treasurer for more than 20 years. When he ended his service to the RTNDA board in 2001 his friends established the Lou and Carole Prato Sports Reporting Scholarship to honor Lou and to assist an aspiring sports journalist.
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KGO-TV established a journalism scholarship in memory of long-time anchor Pete Wilson. The award provides a scholarship in Pete Wilson’s name to students from the Bay Area pursuing a journalism undergraduate or graduate degree.
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George Foreman is a boxing champion, Olympic gold medal winner and celebrated pitchman. As a young man, he was inspired by President Lyndon Johnson and by RTDNF founder Barney Oldfield. In his autobiography "By George," Foreman credits LBJ's Job Corps program for rescuing him "from the gutter." He also thanks Barney Oldfield "for a lifetime of friendship, devotion, counsel, and wisdom. The world would be a far better place if everyone were lucky enough to have a friend like you."
The George Foreman Tribute to Lyndon Baines Johnson scholarship is a $6,000 award given to a journalism student from the University of Texas at Austin.
Past George Foreman Tribute to LBJ Scholarship Winners
Shamiso Maswoswe 2002
Mario Roldan 2003
Gabriel Gutierrez 2004
Hema Mullur 2005
Layron Livingston 2006
Crystal Hall 2007
Emily Graves 2008
Xorje Olivares 2009 - Click here to watch an interview with Olivares
Click here to apply for the George Foreman Tribute to LBJ Scholarship
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Ken Kashiwahara, retired ABC News bureau chief and correspondent, established a $2,500 annual award in 1998 for aspiring minority journalists. His 25-year career with ABC News includes coverage of major national and international events including the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War.
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Ed Bradley, the late 60 Minutes and CBS News Correspondent established a scholarship for a promising journalism student. Since 1994, the Ed Bradley Scholarship has helped young journalists prepare for careers in journalism.
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Carole Simpson is a former member of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation Board of Trustees. She established the Carole Simpson Scholarship to encourage and help minority students overcome hurdles along their career path. Carole Simpson Scholarship winners are working as reporters, producers and anchors in television and radio stations across the country.
Simpson retired from ABC News in 2006 to become Leader-in-Residence at Emerson College's School of Communications in Boston. In a career of notable firsts, in 1992 Simpson became the first woman and the first African American to moderate a presidential debate. She is completing a book on her 40 years as a pioneering African American woman in the field of journalism. Simpson is a commentator for National Public Radio and a frequent political analyst on "Larry King Live." In 1996, Simpson receive the Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award in recognition of her work to protect First Amendment Freedoms.
Carole Simpson Speech to the RTNDA Convention, September 16, 2000
Carole Simpson bio
Emerson College Department of Journalism
Past Carole Simpson Scholarship Winners
1992 Drakeel Burns
1993 Lourdes Alcaniz
1994 Arun Khosla
1995 Hope Lorraine Bartlett
1996 Ingkeua “Klare” Ly
1997 Zaneta T. Lee
1998 Holly Harris
1999 Vicky D. Nguyen, University of San Francisco
2001 Lanaea Chaunte Parker, Louisiana State
2002 Alexandra Harold, Eastern Illinois University
2003 Deanna Garcia, New Mexico State
2004 Alexis Hunt, Indiana University
2005 Damon Maloney, Columbia College
2006 Jeffrey Preval, Hofstra University
2007 Chamise Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University
2008 Brandon Lewis, University of Missouri
2009 Lina Washington, Arizona State
Click here to apply for the Carole Simpson Scholarship
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The board of directors may recognize as Student Chapters of the Association, groups of students of universities and colleges offering instruction in radio and television journalism, provided such groups adopt bylaws, which the board determines will promote the purposes of the Association and are consistent with the bylaws of the Association.
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RTDNA has student chapters at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Currently there are 41 active student chapters.
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