Bridget O’Brien Scholarship Foundation

04/21/2016

Congratulations to Korbin Placet, Matt Cummings, Daniel Alcazar and Daniel Lee, the recipients of this year's Bridget O'Brien Scholarship. The team is bound for Rio de Janeiro this summer to cover UCLA athletes participating in the Olympics. Thanks for the hard work, and good luck!

01/29/2016

Applications are now open for the 2016 Scholarship. Deadline is Sunday, February 28.

UCLA students who are active staff members or contributors to the Daily Bruin, including those graduating in Spring 2016, may apply now through the deadline of Sunday, February 28, 2016.

03/09/2015

03/09/2015

Congratulations to the winners of this year's Bridget O'Brien Scholarship! The Foundation selected two teams this year, each of which will be a "first" for the scholarship. The first team (Natalie Delgadillo, Ryan Nelson, and Angie Wang) will be reporting from Georgia and California, regarding policies affecting higher education access for undocumented immigrants. This is the first scholarship granted to a domestic, rather than an international, reporting project. The second team (Jonaki Mehta and Sonja Bartlett) will be traveling to India to report on Project RISHI, a nonprofit organization founded by members of the UCLA medical community that provides services to the poor in Indian villages. This is the first scholarship that will be reported principally through radio/podcast and photography rather than print.

01/29/2015

Applications for the 2015 scholarship are now being accepted. The deadline is Friday, February 27.

In memory of Bridget O’Brien’s spirit of exploring the world and forging bridges between geographies and cultures, the scholarship funds original student journalism with a global reach and local consequence.

10/07/2014

This year’s scholarship recipients have published "Wake of the Storm," a series of stories chronicling the aftermath of last year’s typhoon in the Philippines. UCLA students donated significant funds to aid the relief efforts and this reporting trip follows the results of those efforts.

Monday through Wednesday, the Daily Bruin is publishing a series about recovery efforts in the Philippines, which was devastated by a super typhoon last November. UCLA student donations played a part in the relief missions of several aid agencies in the wake of the storm.

03/03/2014

Congratulations to the Daily Bruin staff!

http://dailybruin.com/2014/03/01/daily-bruin-wins-23-awards-at-california-college-media-association-competition/

The Daily Bruin took home 23 awards from the California College Media Association's annual competition Saturday, including the top award for General Newspaper E

02/09/2014

Congratulations to Katie Shepherd, Byron Lutz, and Neil Bedi this year's recipients of the Bridget O'Brien Scholarship. They will be reporting on UCLA's recent monetary relief effort for Typhoon Haiyan that devastated sections of the Philippines.

02/09/2014

We interviewed four great teams today! The winning team will be announced soon!

11/04/2013

Check out Poynter's great article today on the Bridget O’Brien Scholarship Foundation and the Malawi stories by Sonali Kohli and Blaine Ohigashi. http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/journalism-education/228244/ucla-reporting-honors-photojournalists-memory/

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10/24/2013

A look back at Bridget's work at The Daily Bruin, part of the paper’s “Throwback Thursday” feature.

Bridget's legacy is her immense passion for travel and humanized storytelling.

10/24/2013

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Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. Here’s this week’s pick: Good journalism costs money. It also takes a little nerve....