Ohio University Students Are International Correspondents
Contact: Anne Cooper-Chen, Ohio University, (740) 593-2611
ATHENS, Ohio (May 22, 2000) -- Eight students of Ohio University's E. W. Scripps School of Journalism are arranging passports and honing foreign language skills. They are the recipients of foreign correspondence internships that will take them to assignments at the Buenos Aires Herald, Bucharesti magazine, and the Associated Press (AP) in London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Caracas and Jerusalem.
Five endowed scholarships administered by the school's Institute for International Journalism will provide the interns with funds for food, lodging and air fare. Fall and winter 2000 recipients of the Considine Scholarship are Erin Sullivan and Jenny Leal. Craig Rimlinger, Ryan Pagelow and Nick Jonson received the Ryan Scholarhip. Jason Keyser received the Fleischer Scholarship, Matt Bifano the Wilhelm Scholarship and Meghan Aftosmis the Hodes Scholarship.
"I hope to absorb as much as possible from this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Craig Rimlinger, who will work at AP Amsterdam.
Like other seniors, Rimlinger is busy this month preparing to graduate. Unlike most others, however, he also is reading about the Netherlands and planning to meet with Kevin Noblet, AP deputy international editor and visiting professor in the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism.
The Scripps foreign correspondence internship program has sent more than145 students to about 25 countries since 1970. Criteria for selection include strong news and work experience, commitment to foreign correspondence as a career and fluency in a second language. Among the program's former interns are Laura Landro, now a Wall Street Journal assignment editor, and Bill Branigan, today a correspondent for The Washington Post. Interns have covered such events as the Achille Lauro hijacking, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the death of Princess Diana.
