Two students in the School of Communications have been selected as recipients of the Scripps Howard Foundation scholarship.
Julia Murphy and Brandon Marshall have received $500 scholarships. The Scripps Howard Foundation also awarded them a $3,000 internship grant this past summer. Scholarship applicants were required to submit 4-5 samples of their multimedia work from their summer internships and an evaluation from their internship supervisor.
Julia Murphy is a senior Journalism student from the Washington, D.C. area. She studied abroad in London last spring, and enjoyed traveling on her days off. Her passion is photography, and she works on the Pendulum staff as a photographer. Last summer, she had an internship at the White House Photo Office, which taught her more about photojournalism and archiving. This past summer, she was in Washington, D.C. at the National Museum of African Art Photographic Archives Center working as a multimedia intern. After graduation she plans to live in the D.C. area working as a photographic archivist.
Brandon Marshall is a senior from Bloomfield, Connecticut and a Broadcast news major. He works within the School of Communications as a student engineer for Elon Television, and he’s a member of Media Services, Phoenix Vision and a senior reporter for Phoenix14News. He also has his own radio show “Soca Riddims” with WSOE-FM. In addition, Brandon recently received the 2011 NABJ scholarship for news. This past summer, he worked at WFSB-TV News in Connecticut as a multimedia intern. He aspires to be a news reporter and work within television after graduating.