Meet the 2013 AP-Google Scholars
Congratulations to the six new AP-Google Scholars: Adam Allevato, Lindsey Cook, Nonny de la Peña, Tyler Fisher, Nilkanth Patel and Erik Reyna. Each student will recieve $20,000 for the 2013-14 academic year to help them build projects that will advance digital journalism. Scholars are working to make better tech for journalists, incorporate virtual reality software into storytelling, make interactive news easier to build, and encourage more women to get involved in computer science.

Entries for Online Journalism Awards due next week
We’re accepting entries until June 21 for the 2013 Online Journalism Awards, honoring excellence in digital journalism around the world. This year, we’ll be awarding $37,500 in prize money, more than in any previous year, courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Gannett Foundation, including a new $5,000 award honoring the best in Watchdog Journalism. Non-English entries now are included in all categories, including the prestigious General Excellence Award.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, today announced a $100,000 grant from the Excellence & Ethics in Journalism Foundation (EEJF) to create and aggregate a series of virtual training elements on journalists.org.

The grant will seed ONA’s efforts to develop and disseminate a web-based, searchable resource library that will give journalists around the world access to cutting-edge digital tools, training and strategies and expand benefits for its 2,000-plus members and the journalism community.

By 2014-15, ONA envisions a sophisticated library focused on digital journalism resources easily searchable by topic, synthesizing the tremendous knowledge and innovation cropping up daily in the industry. Training modules can take any format — text, socially curated content, Storify posts, embeddable presentations, audio and video — with an emphasis on interactive and innovative presentation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Associated Press and Google today announced the second recipients of a national scholarship program targeted at college students whose innovative projects exemplify the new journalist in the digital media age. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, administers the program.

The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship provides $20,000 scholarships for the 2013-14 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. A key goal is to promote geographic, gender and ethnic diversity and identify and support creative new talent and work in the field.

We’re extending the deadline to June 7 for applications for the 2013 MJ Bear Fellowships for early-career digital journalists, in honor of founding member MJ Bear.

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The search committee will select three promising, up-and-coming digital journalists — two in the United States or Canada and one internationally, in partnership with MSN International — who are just beginning to make their voices heard in the industry.

The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, and the University of Miami’s School of Communication today opened the call for entries for the 2013 Online Journalism Awards, emblematic of the best in digital journalism.

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The deadline for entries is June 21.

Nine of the 29 awards come with a total of $37,500 in prize money, courtesy of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Gannett Foundation, including a new $5,000 award honoring the best in Watchdog Journalism.

As in past years, the 2013 Online Journalism Awards have been slightly modified to keep up with the our rapidly evolving industry. This year, non-English entries will be considered in all categories.

“Some say journalism is in trouble, but we think these awards show the opposite is true,” said Joshua Hatch, OJA chair and Senior Editor for Data and Interactives at The Chronicle of Higher Education. “When we look at what’s happening on digital platforms — from the creation of new user experiences to the power small organizations have in reaching large audiences through their important work — we’re thrilled by what we see. And now that all of our awards are open to entrants of all languages, we can’t wait to discover even more innovative work and share it with our community.”