For more information on the $5,000 Intermarkets - Lucido Journalism Scholarship, please provide the following information and we will contact you as the application becomes available.
Purpose: Scholarship Fund was created to recognize an outstanding graduating High School Senior who will be majoring in journalism and who promotes and understands the importance of non-biased journalism in the United States media.
Scholarship Criteria: - U.S. Citizen
- Legal resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia
- Graduating senior from any public or private Virginia high school
- Majoring/planning to major in journalism at an accredited, U.S. 4-year college or university to which the candidate has been accepted
- Able to present three published articles that reflect the candidate’s writing style
- Candidate submits an essay that takes a current article from a major U.S. newspaper that the candidate views as biased reporting/journalism and describes in 500+ words why it is biased and how it should be changed.
- Extracurricular activities
- Academic Excellence