Scripps Howard Foundation Announces Roy W. Howard Fellows Spring Course

CINCINNATI – The newest class of Roy W. Howard Investigative Fellows will begin their year-long postgraduate assignments in January with five nonprofit news organizations deeply committed to investigative journalism.

The scholarships are the next step in the training and professional development of aspiring investigative journalists. They are also an extension of the Scripps Howard Foundation’s commitment to the success of the award-winning Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism, which is funded by the foundation. The Scripps Howard Foundation launched the scholarship program in 2020 with an investment of up to $ 1.5 million in honor of Roy W. Howard, legendary journalist and news manager for the EW Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP).

The Fellows are graduates from the Howard Center of Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the University of Maryland. They were selected by the news agencies in a competitive process. You’ll work side-by-side with reporters and editorial officers from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Inside Climate News, NPR, OpenSecrets and WBUR, Boston’s largest NPR subsidiary, year-round.

“The Cronkite School’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism enables fellows to lead our groundbreaking, award-winning program that advances carefully researched watchdog journalism,” said Battinto L. Batts Jr., dean of the Cronkite School. “We are very proud of the work of the individual scholarship holders and their work across the country. We are grateful to the Scripps Howard Foundation for their philanthropic support and commitment to outstanding journalism. “

Scholarships are awarded and administered in two annual cycles – January through December and July through June.

The Roy W. Howard Fellows Spring Class 2022:

Aydali Campa – Arizona State University

Campa, 25, earned her BA in Journalism and Mass Communication and a Certificate in International Studies from Arizona State University in 2018. Her experiences, who grew up on the US-Mexico border and taught third and fourth grades in Oklahoma City, flow into her reporting. She won regional and national awards for a contribution about students crossing the US-Mexico border daily to go to school in Arizona. Campa has used her multimedia and Spanish skills to cover education, COVID-19 and natural disaster recovery for local and national publications. Her work can be seen in the Wall Street Journal, The Arizona Republic, and Arizona PBS. She will begin her Roy W. Howard Fellowship at Inside Climate News in January 2022.

Jimmy Cloutier – Arizona State University

Cloutier, a 29-year-old native of Richmond, Virginia, received his bachelor’s degree in English from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2014. From 2015 to 2017 he served in the US Peace Corps in Armenia and worked in education and publishing. While studying at Arizona State University’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, he reported on police surveillance and the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. As an investigative staff member and data journalist for News21 at ASU, he analyzed census data to identify economic differences between families living through the pandemic and reported on the ongoing toll of COVID-19. He will be a Roy W. Howard Fellow at OpenSecrets from January 2022.

Laura Kraegel – Arizona State University

Kraegel, a 31-year-old reporter from Mount Prospect, Illinois, received her BA in Liberal Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 2013. She spent nearly five years as a local news radio reporter in Nome and Unalaska, Alaska before joining the investigative graduate program at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. There Kraegel worked as a reporter and data analyst at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and will complete her Masters in investigative journalism in 2021. Starting in 2022, she will become a Roy W. Howard Fellow at WBUR, Boston’s NPR news broadcaster.

Nick McMillan – University of Maryland

McMillan, 25, earned his bachelor’s degree in statistics from Rice University in 2019. After college, he spent a year as a Scripps Howard Fellow at the Scripps Washington Bureau, where he helped expose white racists in the US armed forces and document the lasting effects of an earthquake on Puerto Rican school children. At UMD, the Vancouver, Washington native used his data journalism skills to produce stories about key workers at risk during the COVID pandemic and efforts to evict residents from public housing when the virus raged. McMillan, who speaks fluent Spanish and German, used his video skills to produce a mini-documentary about the little-known massacre of black residents in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919. He will be one of two Roy W. Howard Fellows at the NPR from 2022.

Allison Mollenkamp – University of Maryland

Mollenkamp, ​​25, graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in English in 2018. During his studies and before moving to the master’s program at UMD, Mollenkamp worked for public radio stations in Alaska, Alabama and Nebraska, and for NPR in Washington, DC, in the summers of 2018 and 2021. As a full-time reporter for Nebraska Public Media from 2018 to 2020 Mollenkamp focused on the impact of major floods in the state in 2019 and their recovery from that disaster. There and at UMD, the Jefferson City, Missouri, native delved deep into the impact the pandemic had on key workers, producing stories and the Howard Center’s first podcast focusing on airport workers. She was also a reporter on the Howard Center’s investigation into evictions by public housing authorities when COVID spread. She will be a Roy W. Howard Fellow at the NPR from 2022.

Nicole Sadek – Arizona State University

Sadek, 23, was born in Egypt and grew up in South Carolina and received her Bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Creative Writing from Emory University in May 2020. She is doing her Masters in Investigative Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass. of ASU will complete communications in 2021. Sadek was editor-in-chief of The Emory Wheel, which received nine Georgia College Press Association awards and three Society of Professional Journalists during her tenure. She has professional experience in election closings, CARES funding, federal politics, and congressional candidates for Bloomberg Government, The Arizona Republic, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and Kathimerini, Greece’s English-language daily newspaper exclusively distributed by the International New York Times. Sadek will be a Roy W. Howard Fellow of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists from January 2022.

Zoha Tunio – Arizona State University

Tunio, 25, was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in media studies in 2018. After graduating, Tunio worked as an editorial assistant for the monthly socio-political magazine Newsline, where she co-wrote a cover story about the #MeToo movement in Pakistan, produced a special report on access to safe abortion and featured coverage of emerging start-ups across the country. She is completing her Masters in investigative journalism as a Fulbright Fellow at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She will be a Roy W. Howard Fellow at Inside Climate News from January 2022.

Via the Scripps Howard Foundation
The Scripps Howard Foundation supports philanthropic causes important to The EW Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) and the communities it serves, with an emphasis on journalism education, excellence, and child literacy. At the interface between the classroom and newsroom, the Foundation leads the way in supporting journalism education, grants, internships, minority recruitment and development, and the purposes of the First Amendment. The Scripps Howard Awards are recognized as one of the industry’s top honors for outstanding journalism, and the Foundation’s annual literacy campaign “If You Give a Child a Book …” has distributed more than 500,000 new books to children in need across the country since 2017 in support of their mission To create a more informed world, the Foundation also works with Scripps Brands to raise awareness of local issues and support high impact organizations advance solutions that help build thriving communities.

About the Cronkite School

Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is widely recognized as one of the leading professional journalism programs in the country and has received international recognition for its innovative use of the “teaching hospital” model. Rooted in the time-honored values ​​that characterize its namesake – accuracy, responsibility, objectivity, integrity – the school promotes journalistic excellence and ethics both in the classroom and in its 13 professional programs that fully immerse students in the practice of journalism and related fields leave. Arizona PBS, one of the largest public television channels in the country, is owned by Cronkite, making it the largest media company in the world operated by a journalism school.

For more information, contact Allison Otu, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications for Cronkite and Arizona PBS at [email protected].