By Susan Gonzalez, Yale News
As a child, one of Amelia Nierenberg’s favorite games was to play “journalist,” during which she would stage interviews with her grandmother.
During her time on campus, the Yale senior became a journalist for real, writing opinion pieces for the Yale Daily News (and serving as editor of the Opinion section in her junior year) as well as articles for The New Journal. As a recipient of Yale’s Paul Block Journalism Internship, she spent last summer writing news stories for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; the previous summer, she served as a production intern for “Israel Story,” a national radio podcast in that country highlighting “everyday” stories told by and about Israelis.
Nierenberg is one of 16 aspiring foreign correspondents recently announced as winners of the 2018 Overseas Press Club (OPC) Foundation Scholar Award. As such, she will spend next fall working as a reporter at the Associated Press bureau in Dakar, Senegal.
Nierenberg was selected by a panel of leading journalists from a pool of 175 applicants from 50 different colleges and universities. In March, she attended the OPC awards luncheon at the Yale Club in New York City; CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor was the keynote speaker. She was presented the OPC’s Flora Lewis Fellowship, which was endowed by the Pierre F. Simon Charitable Trust and named in honor of the Paris-based commentator on international events for The New York Times for over 25 years. Nierenberg received her award from Lewis’ friend, journalist and political writer Jackie Albert-Simon. She is one of only four current undergraduates this year to receive the OPC Foundation Scholar Award.
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