Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship Award

National Conference of Editorial Writers annually grants a Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship -- actually an award -- "in recognition of an educator's outstanding efforts to encourage minority students in the field of journalism." The educator should be at the college or university level.

Since 2000, an honorarium of $1,000 has been awarded the recipient, to be used to "further work in progress or begin a new project."

Dr. Valerie D. White, assistant professor of journalism at Florida A&M University, is the recipient of this year's Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship. The award will be presented at the National Conference of Editorial Writers (NCEW) annual convention in Kansas City, Missouri, which will be held September 26 - 29, 2007. Click here for a the press release.

Past winners include:
James Hawkins, Florida A&M University (1990)
Donald Carson, University of Arizona (1991)
Larry Kaggwa, Howard University (1992)
Thomas Engleman, Temple University (1993)
Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Arizona State University (1994)
Anatha Babbili, Texas Christian University (1995)
Ben Holman, University of Maryland (1996)
Sheila Reaves, University of Wisconsin (1997)
Linda Jones, Roosevelt University, Chicago (1998)
Ramon Chavez, University of Colorado, Boulder (1999)
Erna Smith, San Francisco State University (2000)
Joseph Selden of Penn State University (2001)
Cheryl Smith, Paul Quinn College (2002)
Rose Richard, Marquette University (2003)
Leara D. Rhodes, University of Georgia (2004)
Denny McAuliffe, University of Montana (2005)
Pearl Stewart, University of Southern Mississippi (2006)

Past Bingham Award News Releases:

Click here for a news release on Pearl Stewart, the 2006 award winner.

Click here for a news release on Denny McAuliffe, the 2005 award winner.