About Kayla

Hometown:
Austin, TX

University Partner:
UNC Chapel-Hill

Degree:
B.A. in Journalism and Religious Studies, expected 2009

Grant Partner:
Bloomberg News

Senior Mentor:
Tom Keene, Editor-at-Large

We are pleased to announce that Kayla Carrick has been selected as the 2008 Steamboat Scholar for Bloomberg News.

Kayla Carrick is a versatile journalist drawn to reporting about the business world who sees Steamboat Foundation and the opportunity to work at Bloomberg News as a chance to expand her knowledge of the financial world while doing something she already is passionate about.

In high school in Austin, Texas, a self-designed creative writing independent study course and a strong journalism program sparked Kayla's interest in writing. She is now in her third year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working toward a joint degree in Journalism and Religious Studies and a certificate in business journalism within the journalism school. Kayla is a recipient of the Johnston Scholarship, an esteemed award to 60 incoming freshmen based on outstanding high school record, leadership potential, and financial need. Kayla spends most of her free time writing for The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's campus newspaper, where she served as editor of one of the paper's news desks, and now works on special projects. Kayla spent past summers as an intern for the news desk at The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a statewide newspaper based in Little Rock, and as an intern at Austin Monthly Magazine, an entertainment news magazine. In 2007, Kayla received the James L. Morrison Award for Excellence in Mass Communication History after working with a professor to perform research about newspapers during the Civil War.

Kayla looks forward to exploring a new niche in the journalism world by reporting about the economy and finance.