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Home / Newsroom / JCU Student Recieves Journalism Scholarship
University Heights, OH – John Carroll University junior, Katie Sheridan, is one of 75 college students selected nationwide as a scholarship recipient for the Campus Coverage Project, a journalism program sponsored by the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and the Lumina Foundation for Education. Katie currently serves as managing editor of The Carroll News, John Carroll’saward-winning weekly campus newspaper. She is also the vice president of the John Carroll campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. As a program scholar, she will travel to Phoenix, Arizona in January 2010 to learn investigative reporting techniques in a three-day Campus Investigative Reporting Workshop. Topics covered will include how to: -Use the Internet as an investigative reporting tool. -Read budget documents and find the stories that matter. -Prepare for tough interviews -Analyze a school’s performance to see how it measures up. -Examine athletic programs—and their funding. -Use legal tools to pry open foundations, auxiliaries and other secretive campus institutions. -Examine issues on the college campus in the context of national debates on higher education. Katie is a communications major at John Carroll and her hometown is Grove City, Pennsylvania.