2011 Annual Knowledge@Wharton Scholarship for Business Journalism

SAJA & Knowledge@Wharton Present the Annual Knowledge@Wharton Scholarship for Business Journalism-- Established 1999

Questions: Sandeep Junnarkar, SAJA Awards & Fellowships Chair,
e-mail: awards@saja.org

A Unique Opportunity to Attend the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists on a Scholarship

A scholarship each for members of SAJA & AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ & NAJA.

NEW YORK, July 26, 2011 --- The SAJA-Knowledge@Wharton Scholarship for Business Journalism is a unique scholarship program designed to enhance the quality of minority business journalists. It provides a member of SAJA (as well as up to one journalist each belonging AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ, NAJA) with a scholarship to attend the influential Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists October 9-12, 2011 in Philadelphia. More than 2,000 journalists have attended the seminars over the last three decades.

Each scholarship (which covers cost of tuition, course materials and most meals) is worth $1,995 and is furnished by Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The award does NOT cover travel to and from Philadelphia or lodging. The scholarship is presented by SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, in conjunction with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Knowlede@Wharton, the Wharton School's research and business analysis Web site. SAJA is responsible for the administrative process and works with the other groups representing journalists of color to select the winners. It reserves the right not to award a scholarship.

WHO CAN APPLY
Any member of SAJA, AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ, NAJA who is a reporter, editor or producer (including freelancers) currently living in the United States or Canada and working in business journalism or a field that overlaps, such as healthcare or technology. Applicants must be available to attend the Wharton program this year. Individuals with two to seven years of experience as a business reporter or those new to business reporting, but with five to 10 years of experience as a reporter in another field, are encouraged to apply. Freelancers are welcome to apply.

DEADLINE TO APPLY: August 15, 2011

Winners will be informed September 15, 2011

To enter apply here.

Questions: Sandeep Junnarkar, SAJA Awards & Fellowships Chair,
e-mail: awards@saja.org

"My week at Wharton provided tips, advice and sources I use on the job every day. I am so glad I underwent such a thorough course so early in my career."
     -- S. Mitra Kalita, business reporter, Newsday, 2000 winner (now a Washington Post reporter)



About Knowledge@Wharton and the Wharton School

Knowledge@Wharton is a free biweekly online resource that captures knowledge generated at Wharton through such channels as research papers, conferences, books, and interviews with faculty on current business topics, and distributes that knowledge online to a global business audience. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 80,000 worldwide.

About South Asian Journalists Association

The South Asian Journalists Association, was founded in March 1994 as a networking group for journalists of South Asian origin in New York City. It has grown into a national group of over 800 journalists working for leading newspapers, broadcast networks and new media outlets in various cities in the US and Canada. The organization is best known for its Web-based SAJA Stylebook for Covering South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora -- "Learn to tell your Hindi from Hindu, and much, much more." -- and its annual SAJA Journalism Awards, which recognize outstanding coverage of South Asia and excellence in reporting by South Asian journalists and students in the U.S. and Canada. Each year, more than 700 journalists attend the SAJA National Convention in New York.