Create Student Opportunity

In 2019 Utah Public Radio and former NPR Moscow Correspondent and Bureau Chief Corey Flintoff introduced a fundraising opportunity to support student journalists known as the Corey Flintoff Student Internship Fund. Corey and his wife, Diana Derby, have encouraged support for UPR and Utah State University students through personal notes, phone calls, Zoom conversations, and visits with UPR members asking for financial gifts to continue to build the fund. Because of the generous support from you and others who have donated to the fund, UPR is now working with Corey and Diana to establish an endowment that will ensure continued funding for the training and mentoring of students who provide UPR news content as reporters, producers, editors, and award-winning feature writers. USU students also help produce UPR’s Access Utah and provide coverage from the Utah State Capitol during the legislative session.

One reason I’m so thrilled to have my name attached to Utah Public Radio’s journalism internships is that I know that these are real, paid professional jobs that demand a lot from the students who take them on, but jobs that also come with a lot of mentoring and oversight.

The student fund continues to grow, while establishing an endowment will require additional financial support to help maintain a UPR student intern program as well as honor the legacy of Corey Flintoff as a journalist, correspondent, and writer. Your donation now will help us meet our goal of $25,000 needed to support the Corey Flintoff Student Internship Fund and establish an endowment in Corey’s name. UPR and Utah State University are honored to associate with Corey and Diana and appreciate their interest in supporting student journalists.

This program is unusual in that the participants are expected to produce professional, broadcast-quality work and are paid, modestly, for their efforts. It’s an ambitious and very effective system that’s expensive to sustain. That’s why I’m asking for your financial help and support to keep my namesake internship program strong now and remain successful into the future.

Additional Details

• Gifts received will be used to establish the Corey Flintoff Student Intern Fund/Endowment and will be used to provide paid Utah Public Radio internship opportunities to talented students who are inquisitive and passionate about seeing out and sharing the truth.
• If circumstances arise that render the stated purpose of the fund (as set forth herein) illegal, impractical, impossible, or wasteful (e.g., a change in law, the elimination of a USU program, position, or course of study, etc.); then, as set forth in this Solicitation, under such circumstances and in keeping with Utah Code 51-8-501(1), USU may designate a new purpose for the Fund. Any such new purpose shall be defined by USU’s President and the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences in consultation with Utah Public Radio management.
• By letter dated April 8, 1959, the Internal Revenue Service has declared USU (federal tax identification number 87-6000528), to be a duly qualified charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) and also an organization described in sections 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(iv) of the Internal Revenue Code.