Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications 

The Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University, is a bright light in an industry eager for diversification -- and on campus, where it now has the largest enrollment of any program at the university. Dean Tony Brown established the Academy of Writing Excellence in 2006. The program is giving its students majoring in print, broadcast, advertising and public relations an edge, and it saw definitive results last summer when three of the 18 students who won prized internships at the New York Times were Hampton students. A focus on excellence has resulted in higher admission and retention standards, a concentration on writing skills, and expanded internship opportunities for the students.

Foundation grants this year have upgraded the broadcast studio and computer labs, engaged visiting professionals and provided scholarships and program support. The Foundation also supports the annual Scripps Career Day, when executives from The E. W. Scripps Company meet with students about careers.

To learn more, visit the school's Web site at www.hamptonu.edu/shsjc/

Scripps Howard Visiting Professional

Drew Berry has a way of lighting up a place, wherever he goes. A professional broadcast journalist who served as vice president and general manager of Scripps' WMAR-TV in Baltimore, Mr. Berry also served several terms as a Foundation trustee.

Today he runs his own broadcast talent agency and is the Foundation's Visiting Professional at the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University, a school founded on his watch as a trustee of the Foundation. His extensive involvement was a labor of love that now extends to teaching and mentoring Hampton students.

His leadership and commitment is a beacon to all and now especially to aspiring young communicators who are benefiting from his talent and experience -- and his particular dedication to young people of color. He really connects to students, and in turn those students rave about how his willingness to share makes him the perfect role model.

Scripps Howard Endowed Chair in Journalism   

Martha Wilson, is a print journalist with more than 30 years of experience. She has lived and worked in Atlanta, Little Rock, Ark., Milwaukee, Charlotte, Baltimore, Stuart, Fla., Washington, D.C., Roanoke, Va., before moving to Newport News.

She has worked as a reporter, copy editor and features editor. In Washington, D.C., she worked for Scripps Howard News Service as editor of Feature Fronts, and was the director of the Scripps Howard Foundation's Semester in Washington program for college interns. She has taught at Virginia Tech and in the Summer Scholars program at Washington & Lee University.

She has been an active member of the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and the recipient of the Penney-Missouri Lifestyle Award for general excellence in feature sections four years in a row. Most recently, she was senior writer at John Lambert Associates Public Relations and Advertising Agency in Roanoke.