The Overseas Press Club Foundation is proud to announce the
2008 OPC Foundation Scholars.
Awards were presented at the OPC Foundation Scholarship Luncheon,
Friday, February 15, 2008, at the Yale Club.

Congratulations to:

The 2008 OPC Foundation scholars: left to right, sitting, Mayank S  Bubna, New York University; Alexandra Suich, Yale; Sheila B. Lalwani,  Harvard;  Sarah  Mishkin, Yale; Devon A.  Haynie,  Columbia; and Mariano Castillo, Columbia; standing, Jerry  Guo,  Yale; Yu Sun, NYU; Max Strasser,  Oberlin; Ben Weller, Indiana; Paul Sonne,  Oxford ; and Rollo  Romig,  NYU.

The Overseas Press Club Foundation is the 501 (C)(3) charitable oganization affiliated with the Overseas Press Club, which was founded in New York City in 1939 by a group of foreign correspondents to improve the profession of international journalism. The Foundation has a broad mandate to improve the media's understanding of international issues and to raise the quality of news-gathering efforts in covering the world. The most tangible expression of this charter is a scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students in American colleges and universities, who aspire to become foreign correspondents. The program began in 1992 and every year offers $2,000 scholarships to 12 talented student winners of a national essay competition. In 2006, the OPC Foundation began partnering with media organizations to offer internships. The Foundation pays travel and living expenses for interns in foreign bureaus. Five of this year's winners will have internships with Associated Press (Moscow and Johannesburg, South Africa), Reuters (Mexico City and Seoul, Korea), and Cambodia Daily (Phnom Penh).

The Foundation feels it is more important than ever to encourage young correspondents to travel and work abroad particularly at a time when many major news organizations have sharply reduced their networks of experienced correspondents around the world.