Marlene Goldman, a 19-year-old intern with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, was named the 1985 winner of the JDC/Smolar Award for Student Journalism.
Goldman, a journalism major at New York University’s College of Arts and Sciences, was selected from 35 applicants for a series of articles on the United Nations End of the Decade Womenint’s Conference in Nairobi last summer. The articles appeared in the JTA Daily News Bulletin and were reprinted in a number of American Jewish newspapers across the country.
Honorary president of the JDC, Donald Robinson, will present the award, which carries a cash prize of $1,000 at the JDC Semi-Annual meeting in the Grand Hyatt Hotel here May 21.
The Award, which is named for the late Boris Smolar, a major figure in American Jewish journalism for more than 60 years, was designed “to encourage better understanding within the world Jewish community while giving support to young people entering the field of journalism,” said Nathan Freedman, director of public information of the JDC.
Goldman, who is currently a sophomore at NYU, was born in Huntington, Long Island and attended Commack High School North where she served as Arts Editor for her school newspaper, Varohi. In her freshman year at NYU, she was awarded a B’nai B’rith Hillel/JACY Fellowship to intern at the Jewish Student Press Service.
Goldman, who began her JTA internship last June, is also a member of the University Scholars at NYU and works at the WNYU radio station.
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