2012 Daniel Pearl Intern Chosen
 Kathleen Chaykowski |
Kathleen Chaykowski is a junior working toward a degree in English. She will work in the Johannesburg bureau of The Wall Street Journal this spring.
The internship was established to commemorate the work and ideals of Pearl, a Stanford graduate and Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002.
In an essay written as part of the application process, Chaykowski noted that Daniel Pearl's "attention to the ambiguity and surprises he encountered yielded stories that delve far beyond the black and white. It is the gray — the small, human moments, the contradictions — that I aspire to capture through my own reporting."
Chaykowski is from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and previously had internships at the Mail & Guardian in South Africa and the Chautauquan Daily in New York. She has been a member of the Stanford Daily staff since before classes started her freshman year.
A committee of Communication Department faculty members evaluated applicants for the internship. The final decision was made by The Wall Street Journal.
Pearl, a 1985 graduate of Stanford's Department of Communication, was kidnapped in Karachi on Jan. 23, 2002, while working on a story retracing the steps of "shoe bomber" Richard Reid. A month later, on Feb. 21, his captors released a videotape of his slaying. He was 38.
Kathleen Chaykowski's winning essay:
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