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Kyle Kim (AAJA/New York) was named a 2012 spring Chips Quinn Scholar. Kim is a breaking news producer at GlobalPost, who recently graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. and is an aspiring international reporter.
(Posted 01/27/12)
Frank Shyong (AAJA/Los Angeles) was named a 2012 spring Chips Scholar. Shyong is a reporter at the Orange County Register and is a native of Nashville, Tennesse. He graduated from UCLA in 2010 with a B.A. in economics and has worked for Entertainment Weekly, the Taipei Times and the Nashville City Paper.
(Posted 01/27/12)
Lisa Fung (AAJA/Los Angeles) was appointed as TheWrap's first executive editor. Fung joins TheWrap from The Los Angeles Times, where she has spent 24 years in a series of senior editorial roles, most recently as the Online Editor for Arts and Entertainment.
(Posted 01/11/12)
Rosalind Dumlao (AAJA/Chicago) was selected to the Sports Journalism Institute's 2012 class. She was also named the 2012 Association for Women in Sports Media Scholar. A recent Illinois graduate, Ros will intern at the U.S. Olympic Committee in the spring, then The Denver Post in the summer.
(Posted 01/09/12)
