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AAJA Sacramento awarded a total of $4,000 in scholarships to four college students pursuing journalism. The chapter’s 2011 scholarship program was funded in part from the Asian Pacific Rim Foundation.

Here are the awardees, the schools that they will be attending this fall, and the amount of their scholarships:

-Christine Mai-Duc, second year graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, $2000

-Holly Pablo, senior majoring in editorial journalism/communication design at California State University, Chico, $1000

-Tercius Bufete, junior majoring in journalism at California State University, Chico, $500

-Jeffrey Lapid, junior majoring in digital filmmaking and video production at The Art Institute of California – San Francisco, $500

Congratulations!

In partnership with The Sacramento Bee, AAJA Sacramento is sponsoring a 10-week internship program for aspiring print, photo, graphics and multimedia journalists. A weekly stipend of $570 will be provided. The program begins in May or June 2011, depending on the intern’s availability.

Deadline to apply is March 18, 2011.

To qualify, an applicant must be enrolled in a college or university within the chapter’s membership area (the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, as far north as the Oregon border) OR have a permanent address within those boundaries. Recent graduates who completed their studies in Fall 2010 are eligible to apply. All applicants must be student members of AAJA Sacramento. (Visit aaja.org to become a member.)

Download the 2011 AAJA Sacramento/The Sacramento Bee internship application.