National Press Club

Scholarship team seeks volunteers this spring to judge Club scholarship applications

Holly Butcher Grant

February 06, 2025

The National Press Club Scholarship Team is seeking volunteers this spring to review and select recipients for all 2025 NPC scholarships.

Each judge commits to:

  • Reviewing applications for one of the five scholarship opportunities offered by the Club. 
  • Being available the morning of May 3 for a Zoom meeting to discuss and select the scholarship winner. 
  • Being available to evaluate applications independently (on your own time) the two weeks leading up to May 3.
  • Watching an orientation video explaining the judging process and our new scholarship platform.

Scholarships being awarded this year are:

  • The Scholarship for Journalism Diversity Honoring Julie Schoo: A $5,000 scholarship awarded to a high school senior that can be renewed for up to three years at $5,000 per year. 
  • The Richard G. Zimmerman Scholarship: A one-time scholarship of $5,000 to support a high school senior who wishes to pursue a career in journalism. 
  • The Wes Vernon Broadcast Scholarship: Supports diversity within broadcast journalism. The scholarship is $5,000 awarded to a student who demonstrates a commitment to a career in broadcast journalism and can be renewed for up to three years.  
  • The Lewis Scholarship: Provides housing and a monthly stipend to support student journalists of color with newsroom internships in Washington, D.C., during the summer semester. Students must be a college junior or senior.
  • The Dennis and Shirley Feldman Fellowship: Recognizes a journalism graduate student with a one-time scholarship of $5,000. 

If you'd like to be a judge, please complete this form. Judges will be chosen on a first come, first serve basis, and will be acknowledged in the Wire and in NPC Journalism Institute publications.

Please contact Scholarship Team co-chairs Erin Looney ([email protected]) and Caitlin Mullaney ([email protected]) with any questions.

National Press Club scholarships are administered by the Club's nonprofit affiliate, the National Press Club Journalism Institute. Click here to learn more.