Foundation announces journalism scholarship winners
The Ohio Newspapers Foundation has chosen recipients for this year’s scholarships.
Kristina Hauptman of Ohio University, Alison Matas of Marietta College and Kristina Stavale of Kent State University have each been awarded $1,500 University Journalism Scholarship.
Hauptman, originally from Vernon Hills, Ill., is a reporter for OU’s student newspaper, The Post.
She is double majoring in Journalism and French and expects to graduate in June of 2011. She aspires to work in France, as a correspondent or for the AP.
Matas currently serves as the viewpoints and entertainment editor for The Marcolian, Marietta’s student newspaper. The Kent native has written for the the Marcolian for three semesters.
She has also contributed to the America’s Best Leaders Project in conjunction with Harvard and U.S. News and World Report. She expects to graduate in May 2011 with a major in journalism.
Stavale, originally from Stow, is news editor and public affairs reporter of the Daily Kent Stater. She was editor-in-chief of the newspaper’s summer edition. Previously she served as campus editor and beat reporter for the newspaper.
This summer, Stavale will intern for the Chautauquan Daily, a 35,000-circulation publication of the Chautauqua Institution in New York.
The journalism major plans to graduate in spring of 2010.
The Ohio Newspaper Women’s Scholarship has been awarded to Cassidy Pazyniak of Miami University. This marks her third year as a recipient of a Foundation scholarship, winning a University Journalism Scholarship in 2007 and 2008.
Pazyniak, a native of Chesterland, is majoring in journalism and psychology with a minor in marketing. She is features writer for The Miami Student and a freelance editor of Miami Quarterly Magazine.
In 2007 she wrote about Miami for Unigo.com. She plans to graduate next spring.
Alexandria Questel, who attends Wooster High School, has been chosen as the Minority Journalism Scholarship winner for 2009.
Questel has shadowed at the Wooster Daily Record where her father worked as sports editor before becoming a teacher.
Diagnosed with cancer at 11 years old, Questel has battled through chemotherapy while staying on top of classes enough to graduate on time with a 3.0 GPA. Absences, however, limited her involvement with her high school newspaper.
She plans to attend the College of Wooster in the fall and major in English.
The Harold K. Douthit Regional Scholarship this year goes to Ashley Brugnone of Bowling Green State University. The Oak Harbor native is a writer for the BG News. She also has worked for BG24TV, the university’s student television news station. Before transferring to BGSU, she was a reporter for the University of Findlay’s student newspaper The Pulse. During that time she wrote a monthly column for The (Findlay) Courier. The journalism major expects to graduate in spring of next year and hopes to work for a Columbus newspaper.
The Women’s, Minority and Douthit scholarships are $1,500 each.
