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# Extra! Extra! Aspiring journalists can bag $1,000
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/extra-extra-aspiring-journalists-can-bag-1-000/
- Published: 2004-01-10T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:30:15.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Future journalists have an opportunity to win $1,000 and work in a television newsroom.

KTLA, Channel 5, is presenting the Sixth Annual Stan Chambers Journalism Awards. A total of 325 schools will be notified of the competition that invites high school senior students to submit essays on the theme “What matters most” for the opportunity to receive check awards to further their education. Five winners will each receive $1,000 and an opportunity to work in the KTLA newsroom. The program honors Chambers, KTLA’s veteran reporter and journalist, for his contributions to the community.

The goal of the awards program is to help high school seniors interested in the communications and journalism professions develop their skills. In addition to receiving awards, winning students will produce video essays of their winning entries with guidance from KTLA News writers, producers and reporters. They will experience what it’s like to work in a major market television newsroom on deadline.

High school seniors attending any high school in Southern California must submit an essay describing “What matters most” in their lives. The essay must be 150 words or less and should be based on experiences, thoughts and opinions about life. Only one entry per student is permitted. Entries must be received by midnight Sunday, Feb. 29, at KTLA. Students must include a cover sheet that includes their name, grade, age, address, school name, address and telephone number, as well as their teacher’s name, class or department, school name, address and phone number.

Five entries will be selected as award recipients by a panel of professional KTLA News journalists. Each entry will be judged on originality, creativity and writing ability.

Students should contact their English teacher for complete rules and details. Chambers has been with the same station for 57 years. Chambers began his career in 1947, shortly after KTLA had signed on as the first commercially licensed television station west of the Mississippi. Chambers has reported on more than 20,000 stories including the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, the Hillside Strangler, the Malibu and Bel-Air fires, the Baldwin Hills Dam Break and the Northridge Earthquake.

For more information, students can call the Chambers Journalism Awards Hotline at (323) 460-5991, or visit www.ktla.com.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 10, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/011004.pdf?ref=smdp.com)