FOX News Media Awards Students With Inaugural Dr. Charles Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship
April 27 2020 - 11:32AM
Business Wire
FOX News, in partnership with the National Merit Scholarship
Program, has selected two recipients of the inaugural Dr. Charles
Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship, announced Suzanne Scott, CEO of
FOX News Media. The scholarship will be awarded to Ami Carey of
Lynbrook, NY and Michael Carey of Merrick, NY, the children of FOX
News Media Senior Vice President of Technical Operations, Steve
Carey and Senior Director of IT Operations, John Carey,
respectively.
In making the announcement, Ms. Scott said, “We are proud to
honor Charles’ legacy of exceptional journalism and lifelong love
of learning with this scholarship in his name. Ami Carey and
Michael Carey embody the next generation of outstanding thought
leaders and we are thrilled to facilitate a pathway for them to
pursue their academic curiosity and educational goals.”
Scholarship recipients Ami Carey and Michael Carey are currently
seniors at Lynbrook High School and Sanford H. Calhoun High School,
respectively. Ami will be attending the University of California,
Los Angeles in the fall of 2020, while Michael will study
accounting and finance at a higher learning institution to be
determined.
Established by FOX News in 2018, the Dr. Charles Krauthammer
Memorial Scholarship awards eligible children of network employees
$2,000 per college year for a maximum of four years. All aspects of
the program, including the selection of winners and the
administration of their awards, are conducted through the National
Merit Scholarship Program by the independent, not-for-profit
National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). Applications were
accepted by the NMSC through March 31, 2019 at which time the
selection process began.
To be eligible, U.S. high school juniors planning to enter
college in the fall of 2020 must have taken the 2018 PSAT/NMSQT
test and met several academic and other requirements set by the
NMSC. Winners were selected on a competitive basis without regard
to family financial circumstances, gender, race, ethnic origin or
religious preference. Once chosen, the NMSC disburses the
scholarship directly to the accredited U.S. college/university
following a determination the student has remained in good
standing. Furthermore, the scholarship belongs to the student and
is not affected should their parent leave the company following the
communication of the award.
Dr. Charles Krauthammer served as a contributor to FOX News
Media from 2002 up until his passing in 2018, and was renowned for
his political commentary and analysis across both FOX News
Channel’s daytime and primetime programming. Throughout his tenure
with the network, he made frequent appearances on Special Report
with Bret Baier and FOX News Sunday. A Pulitzer prize-winning
syndicated journalist and physician, Dr. Krauthammer joined The
Washington Post in 1984, where he continued to write a weekly
syndicated column until his passing and also served as a
contributing editor to The Weekly Standard. He began his journalism
career at The New Republic and prior to that, served as a speech
writer to Vice President Walter Mondale in 1980 and as chief
resident in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Krauthammer was a recipient of numerous honors, including
the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, the 2013 William F. Buckley
Award for Media Excellence, the 1984 National Magazine Award for
Essays and Criticisms, and the first annual Bradley Prize. He also
authored the best-selling “Things That Matter: Three Decades of
Passions, Pastimes and Politics” and “Democratic Realism: An
American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World.” A graduate of McGill
University with a B.A. in political science and economics, Dr.
Krauthammer went on to become a Commonwealth Scholar at Balliol
College in Oxford and earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical
School.
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streaming service FOX Nation. A top five-cable network, FNC has
been the most watched television news channel for more than 18
consecutive years, while FBN currently ranks among the top business
channels on cable. Owned by FOX Corporation, FOX News Media reaches
200 million people each month.
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