Caroline Blackmon, a rising senior at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, is the recipient of the Virginia Press Women Foundation\u2019s 2018 Agnes Cooke Scholarship.<\/p>\n
She was announced as this year\u2019s scholarship winner at the spring conference of Virginia Professional Communicators, with which the foundation is affiliated, at the University of Richmond on Saturday, May 5.<\/p>\n
Blackmon, who is from Atlanta, is majoring in journalism and economics. Upon graduation, she said she hopes to work at newspaper or broadcast television station.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy favorite thing about reporting and being involved in the journalism business is telling people’s stories,\u201d Blackmon said. \u201cAs a journalist, I want to get to know as many different people as I can and to make sure their voices are heard.\u201d<\/p>\n