Hosokawa Endowment
The Hosokawa Endowment
The 2009 entrants for the Hosokawa scholarship.
In 2000, an endowed lectureship was established at Whitman College by David and Beverly Hosokawa, and the Hosokawa Family Foundation. Intended to be a celebration of journalistic excellence, the lectureship honors Robert R. Hosokawa, David’s father, by bringing a noted journalist to campus. The endowment also established the Hosokawa Prize to be awarded each year in recognition of outstanding achievement and excellence as demonstrated by student journalists and photojournalists of The Pioneer. A Whitman Alumnus of Merit, Class of 1940, Robert Hosokawa was a reporter for several papers in Missouri, New York, Iowa and Minnesota. He held journalism professorships at the University of Missouri and the University of Central Florida and has been a mentor to many young journalists.
The 2009 Hosokawa Award Winners with journalist Bill Murray. Pictured from left: Andy Jobanek (Opinion), Matt Manley (Feature, A&E), Gillian Frew (News), guest lecturer Bill Murray, J. Staten Hudson (Sports), Sunn Kim (Photography).
Categories and this year’s winners
- News - Gillian Frew
- Sports - J. Staten Hudson
- Features/Arts and Entertainment - Matt Manley
- Opinion/Editorial - Andy Jobanek
- Photography - Sunn Kim
Prizes
A $500 prize will be awarded in each of the five categories. In the event of a tie, the prize money for that category will be split.
This year’s speaker
William Murray - Photo courtesy of Whitman College
Freelance journalist William Murray, a 1992 Whitman graduate who spent three months in 2008 imbedded with U.S. and Iraqi forces, will present the college’s annual Hosokawa Lecture in Journalism Monday, March 9.
Murray will present “The Problem with Today’s Media (Or Why News Coverage of Iraq Was so Poor) and What We Can Do about It” at 7 p.m. in the Young Ballroom, Reid Campus Center, 280 Boyer Ave. His talk is free and open to the public. Read more…
