The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will extend six $20,000 scholarships to undergraduate (sophomores and above) and graduate students pursuing degrees related to the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media in the 2012 to 2013 academic year.
The scholarship's administrators are looking for students working on "innovative projects that further the ideals of digital journalism" from a variety of geographic, gender and ethnic backgrounds.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 to 2013 academic year. Recipients will be announced this spring.
The scholarships represent just a slice of the the $5 million Google promised to donate to fostering the development in digital journalism in October 2010. In February, Google awarded $2.7 million to the International Press Institute's News Innovation Contest.
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