Business journalism society honors Kat Greene '08

Kat Greene '08 shakes hand with Gail DeGeorge, the 2007 president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, at their annual convention in Baltimore on April 27. Greene was part of team of reporters from the Charlotte Observer that won the award for breaking news in SABEW's Best in Business contest.

 

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Melissa Caron '09 honored by journalism organization

Melissa Caron, ’09, a business journalism major from North Conway, N.H., has won the prestigious George A. Bowles Memorial Scholarship for 2008 from the Virginia Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).

Caron, who is also pursuing a concentration in poverty studies, received the $2,000 scholarship from Gov. Tim Kaine and chapter president Jason Roop at a reception at the Willow Oaks Country Club in Richmond on April 22. Kaine was the keynote speaker at the event, the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the Virginia professional chapter of SPJ, called Sigma Delta Chi when the chapter formed on April 22, 1958.

The chapter and its partner, the Richmond SPJ/SDX Educational Foundation, also gave an identical scholarship to Jaedda Armstrong, a mass communications-journalism major at Norfolk State University.

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