Number of Awards Available: 1
Amount of the Award: $2,500

Eligibility Criteria
The Larry Whiteside Scholarship will be awarded to an enrolled college student who is pursuing a career in sports journalism. The student must demonstrate commitment to this field by working for a campus or off campus media outlet.

Competition for the scholarship is open to any NABJ student member who is currently attending an accredited four-year university. Students must be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student who:

• Pursuing a career in sports journalism
• Maintains a minimum 2.5 GPA

Additional Criteria

• To be considered and to receive a scholarship, all applicants must be a member of NABJ
• Previous NABJ scholarship winners are not eligible
• All grants are awarded directly to the recipients college or university
• All applicants should be at least a junior (and preferably a senior) with a declared major in journalism or communications, or a demonstrated commitment to the field, i.e. long term work on the school paper, internships at professional news gathering organizations (print or broadcast).
  • Applicants must have at least a 2.5 GPA in all work in the major, and at least a 2.0 GPA overall. They should also be a student member of NABJ or local affiliate.
  • Along with the application, the applicant’s package should provide a resume of accomplishments, official (as in sealed) transcripts, and a short essay/profile (700-800 words) of a sports journalist. Essays and profiles should have “live” not “canned” quotes. It can be of a STF member. All essays/profiles should be typewritten, double-spaced, with proper grammar, spelling and punctuation.
  • Applicants should provide three references, and three examples of their work.
  • Applicants must meet all deadlines for submission of materials, and all submissions must be complete packages. Incomplete packages or those submitted after the deadlines should not be considered.

Larry Whiteside broke both barriers and stories as a baseball writer for the Boston Globe. He was also the first African-American beat writer in the Globe sports department, teaming with Peter Gammons to cover the Red Sox in the 1970s, when the Globe had both morning and evening editions.