Cox Foundation Asks For More College Student Video Scholarship Applicants

 

AUSTIN, TX (October 13, 2009) – Barbara Cox, the mother of photojournalist Jim Cox, killed two years ago along with three other journalists when their two news helicopters collided over downtown Phoenix, tells News Photographer magazine today that the James Alan Cox Foundation for Student Photographers needs more college scholarship applicants for video visual storytellers for this year's round of Cox Foundation grants.

The deadline for application is October 15, 2009.

While the Foundation has several hundred applicants this year from high school and college student still photographers, the Foundation's board feels like they need more applicants to chose from for college videographers, be they traditional broadcast video students or multimedia and Web video students, Cox said today.

For more information and to apply, please see the James Alan Cox Foundation for Student Photographers Web site at www.jamesalancoxfoundation.org.

Jim Cox was an Arizona television photojournalist killed July 27, 2007, in a midair collision between Channel 3 and Channel 15's news helicopters above Steele Indian School Park in downtown Phoenix.

In July 2009, on the second anniversary of the midair collision, a lawyer representing the Cox family and the family of pilot/reporter Scott Bowerbank told a Phoenix press conference that their lives "were not lost in vain" because of the important news helicopter safety issues that are now being discussed (Read full coverage here).

 

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