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UNITY 2008: A Tree Grows…

• Chipsters, ASNE/APME Fellows and graduates of AIJI and the Diversity Institute reconnected with one another at the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute’s reception at UNITY 2008, the world’s largest journalism convention, held in Chicago. Read all about it here.

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Where in the World are our Chipsters?

Our hope for this feature is the same as for the Web site itself -- that it reminds you to stay connected to us and keeps you connected to one another.

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Chips Watch

Career advances keep Chipsters on the move. Read all about it here.

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Internship in photos

Sarah Welliver is a photo intern for The Santa Fe New Mexican. She was a Summer 2007 Chips Quinn Scholar at the Detroit Free Press. Welliver shares images she took during her internship at the Free Press.

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What I Learned "When I left Poynter, I had a much clearer picture of the kind of editor and manager I had been, and the kind I wanted to be. More important, I now had the tools I needed to get there," writes Ernestine Bousquet, a 2003 Scholar.

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Q & A with Chipster Danese Kenon

"I did not transition into a multimedia journalist knowingly or willingly. I started by doing sound. I would take photographs at assignments and record the natural sound that went with it and put it together with the sound slides program. To me, that was fun and exciting."

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Summer '08 Internship Blog Follow 2008 Scholars Anthony Anamelechi and Terria Smith as they chronicle their internships this summer.

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Chipsquinn.org is written by and for Chips Quinn Scholars and serves as a common ground where journalists of color can network, turn for career coaching and research development opportunities. The Scholars program places journalists of color in internships at daily U.S.newspapers. It is named for the late John “Chips” Quinn Jr., a newspaper editor whose commitment to newsroom diversity is his legacy.
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