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PHOTO: Dominique Hessert, of Lamoine, earned a Guy P. Gannett Scholarship to help support her education at the Rochester Institute of Technology and is not a member of the video team for The New Yorker. Hessert earned a BFA in photojournalism. (Maine Community Foundation photo)
ELLSWORTH – Maine students interested in careers in journalism my apply for scholarships from the Guy P. Gannett Journalism Scholarship Fund at the Maine Community Foundation. The fund is the foundation’s largest and has helped support nearly 150 students seeking journalism-related careers.
The scholarship honors businessman and entrepreneur Guy P. Gannett, who launched his newspaper career in 1921 with the purchase of two newspapers he merged into the Portland Press Herald. By 1998, when the family sold Guy Gannett Communications, its media reach spanned several states with three daily newspapers in Maine and seven television stations.
The application deadline is April 1. Applicants must be graduates of a Maine high school or have been home-schooled in Maine during their last year of secondary education. Students are chosen based on demonstrated interest in journalism through their choice of coursework and extracurricular activities, as well as financial need and academic achievement.
The Gannett Scholarship provides renewable support for students majoring in journalism or a field reasonably related, including print, broadcast or electronic media. The fund helps pay the cost of attendance to attend an undergraduate, graduate, trade or technical school.
Gannett’s granddaughter Maddy Corson and her uncle John Gannett established the Guy P. Gannett Scholarship Fund in 2000 to pay tuition and expenses for Maine students pursuing careers in journalism. Since then, the initial $3 million scholarship fund – MaineCF’s largest – has helped educate nearly 150 students with more than $3.8 million in support. In 2021, 16 students were awarded $332,000 in scholarship support.
Apply online at www.mainecf.org. For more information about the Gannett Scholarship, visit mainecf.org/find-a-scholarship/available-scholarships/guy-p-gannett-scholarship-fund; hear from past Gannett scholars at mainecf.org/2020/11/maines-eyes-on-the-world.
