Young writers get scholarships from FL’s Black journalists

SFBJA, NABJ team up to encourage tomorrow’s reporters

Despite the earlier threats from what would become super-storm Sandy, the South Florida Black Journalists Association [SFBJA] honored five student journalists at its scholarship reception last Saturday (Oct. 27) at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus. Pictured are: Dr. Raul Reis, the new dean of FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (l-r); Viera Galloway and Melonne Mack, both from Florida Memorial University and Dwight Lauderdale Scholarship recipients; Terence Shepherd SFBJA president; Adrianne Richardson, a 2012 graduate of William H. Turner Technical Arts High School and current student at FIU, who received the Rochelle Bridges Memorial Scholarship and the Miami Herald Multimedia Scholarship; Katrina Lowe, a senior at FIU who earned SFBJA’s endowed scholarship at the university; and Greg Lee, NABJ president and executive sports editor at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. —Miami Times photo/Craig Uptgrow