Left to right: Sophia Jones. Georgia Wells, Eva Dou, Elisa Mala, Beibei Bao, James Jeffrey, Catherine Ryan Gregory, Max Seddon, Lauren Rosenfeld, Rachel Will, Jia Feng, Lauren Zumbach, Lauren E. Bohn, and Nizar Manek.
Lauren Rosenfeld (’12) has won a prestigious Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholarship, receiving a $2,000 award at the Foundation’s 2012 Annual Scholarship Luncheon held at the Yale Club in New York City. Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News, was the keynote speaker.
Rosenfeld was among 14 aspiring foreign correspondents selected by a panel of leading journalists from a pool of 175 applicants from 72 different colleges and universities. Fluent in Spanish, the multimedia journalist won for her essay about the Voices of Kidnapping radio show, where the families of Colombian kidnap victims send messages of hope and maintain some semblance of contact with loved ones.
Rosenfeld was the recipient of the Walter and Betsy Cronkite Scholarship. She received the award from David Rhodes, president of CBS News. At the luncheon, she sat at the head table and was the guest of CBS News.
The scholarship winners were also honored with a reception at Reuters the night before the luncheon and toured The Associated Press headquarters in New York City. They also met with the page one editor of the Wall Street Journal and the executive editor of GlobalPost.
The OPC Foundation is the nation’s largest and most visible scholarship program encouraging aspiring journalists to pursue careers as foreign correspondents. Media organizations at the luncheon included AP, Bloomberg, CBS News, Financial Times, Reuters, and the Scripps Howard Foundation.