The ASBPE Academic Foundation presenedt its fifth Business Journalism Scholarship to Emily Dreibelbis, a graduate university student at the Medill Faculty of Journalism, Media, Built-in Marketing and advertising Communications at Northwestern College.
She was awarded the $2,500 scholarship by the Foundation, which has supported excellence and instruction in business-to-business media due to the fact 2007.
Dreibelbis, who attained her bachelor’s diploma in history from Columbia College, came to the area of journalism just after seven many years of doing the job in business and technological know-how on the West Coastline, most a short while ago as a merchandise manager at Amazon for six yrs.
“Making the swap to a new business where I can use my background to improve my reporting has been immensely gratifying,” she explained in a assertion.
This summer months, she is carrying out an editorial fellowship at PC Magazine (PCMag), in which she’ll be rotating all over the Information, Functions and Merchandise evaluations groups and publishing regularly. Making use of her offer chain knowledge, she is also freelancing for B2B publications.
“I’m not certain what’s soon after that nonetheless, but I’m psyched to explore options,” Dreibelbis reported. “I’m so grateful to Medill and the ASBPE Educational Foundation for their help of my journey.”
Abe Peck, director of organization-to-enterprise communications at Medill, partnered with past Basis president Roy Harris and Basis president Amy Fischbach to start the scholarship software in 2018.
Dreibelbis is in Peck’s class this summer as portion of the 1-calendar year graduate system.
