Columbia University Graduate School of JournalismThe Osborn Elliott-National Magazine Awards ScholarshipClass of 2009
Kim Thai most recently worked at Argus Media as a staff energy reporter, covering ethanol and jet-fuel news. She also covered spot-market prices for blend stocks and gasoline products on the West Coast. Before that, she worked as news editor for The Daily Cougar, the paper at the University of Houston, where she was a student. In the summer of 2007, she worked as a full-time reporting intern at The Facts, a paper that covers Brazoria County, on the Gulf Coast of Texas. She has freelanced for The Houston Chronicle, other Texas papers and magazines and contributed work to the Associated Press. She was also the layout and graphic-design editor of the undergraduate literary journal at the University of Houston and taught the university's writing center, where she became a project coordinator for its business program. After graduation, she hopes to work for a national magazine.
Venessa Wong is a graduate student at the Columbia University School of Journalism, concentrating in magazines. Before returning to school, she worked as a freelance writer in New York City, starting in November 2007, and contributed articles to Forbes.com, CNBC European Business, Newsweek Select, Business China, Corporate Board Member and Projects@Work. Having an avid interest in green energy, she also worked with the Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy (JUCCCE). While working as a journalist in Shanghai, from 2004 to 2007, Venessa tracked the opportunities and risks for overseas investors in China. She has interviewed business leaders such as Sir Richard Branson; the president of Eli Lilly, China, Jorg Ostertag; and the founder of the LEED Green Building Rating System of the United States Green Building Council, Robert Watson. She is a native of Brooklyn, New York, and hopes to work for a magazine in New York City following graduation in May 2009.
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