SCHOLARSHIP WINNER UPDATE
WHAT IS HE DOING NOW?
DERRYL BARNES
2024 GRADUATE of UNIVERSITY of miami
THREE TIME NATAS SCHOLARSHIP WINNER:
2020 Paul Lisnek Scholarship (NATAS Chgo)
2022 NATAS Suncoast Scholarship
2023
Board
of Governors’ Scholarship (NATAS CHGO)
Derryl Barnes is a Multimedia Reporter at Front Office Sports, a digital media outlet focused on the business of sports.
He is one of the faces of FOS’s video content. He writes, shoots, and edits original content for the Front Office Sports Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts.
Through his first six months on the job, he has reported on major sports events in Berlin, Los Angeles, New York, and more. Some of his favorite projects include the LA Clippers opening the Intuit Dome, Magic Johnson’s $1 Billion empire, and Northwestern Football’s temporary stadium.
CONGRATS DERRYL ON YOUR GREAT FUTURE AHEAD!
SCHOLARSHIP WINNER UPDATE
WHAT IS SHE DOING NOW?
JOEY SAFCHIK
2021 GRADUATE of NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
2020 Ephraim Family Foundation Scholarship Winner
Joey joined NBC 7 San Diego as a reporter in November 2023.
She graduated with honors from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 2021.
She is the recipient of five student Production Awards.
After graduation, Joey spent two years as a reporter/investigative reporter at the ABC affiliate, KETV, in Omaha, NE. While at KETV, Joey covered education, politics and the occasional tornado. Her work brought attention to injustices in the prison system and among students in special education programs. She won a Great Plains Journalism Award for feature storytelling.
While at school, Joey spent years as the news director of the Northwestern News Network. She spent two summers interning at NBC Nightly News in the Los Angeles Bureau and another getting her feet wet on-air at KGET in Bakersfield. She also interned at ABC 7 Chicago, spent a quarter reporting in Washington, D.C. and reported from the Middle East. She won both of Medill's prestigious broadcast journalism awards upon graduation.
SCHOLARSHIP WINNER UPDATE
WHAT IS SHE DOING NOW?
GRACE RUNKEL
2017 GRADUATE of loyola UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
2016 BERNSTEIN GLOBAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT Scholarship Winner
Grace Runkel is an investigative reporter at FOX Carolina News in Greenville, SC.
She joined the station as a morning reporter in October 2019 and was a part of the team when they won a Southeast Emmy Award for Best Morning Newscast in 2022.
Since transitioning to her new role, she's uncovered systemic failures within South Carolina's juvenile justice system and pushed for answers when an electronic monitoring device failed to keep the victim of a domestic violence incident safe from her abuser. Grace also covered the entirety of the high-profile murder trial of Alex Murdaugh in 2023.
Before moving south, Grace was an MMJ at WHBF in Rock Island, IL. Prior to graduating from Loyola University Chicago in 2017, Grace was the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Phoenix. She interned at Chicago's WGN and at WLKY in Louisville, KY.
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