Holy Cross Student Earns Journalism Fellowship

WORCESTER, Mass. – College of the Holy Cross student Matthew Reynolds ’05, of Charlton, has received a national fellowship from the Collegiate Network, affiliated with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Reynolds will serve a year-long internship with Roll Call, the Washington, D.C.-based newspaper covering Capitol Hill.

The Collegiate Network offers the fellowships to soon-to-graduate seniors who write for Collegiate Network-affiliated conservative campus newspapers. Reynolds contributes to the Fenwick Review, Holy Cross’ conservative newspaper.

Reynolds plans to pursue a career in conservative journalism. His goals include to write for a major publication, such as the National Review, and to one day publish a book. Reynolds also writes opinion pieces for the Crusader, the College’s weekly newspaper, and served as the editor of the opinion section for several semesters. He is a member of the campus group Students for Life, and has served on the executive board of Campus Christian Fellowship. For three years over spring break, he participated in the Appalachia Service Project, in which students take part in community outreach and service projects in the Appalachian region of the United States. He is a tutor at the Writers’ Workshop and has played on the Holy Cross club soccer team.

As a junior, Reynolds received the 2004 spring semester’s Maurizio Vannicelli Washington Semester Away program award at Holy Cross, given to the Washington Semester participant who writes the best research paper. While in Washington, Reynolds worked for the Christian Coalition of America, where he helped lobby members of the House of Representatives to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment and the Houses of Worship Freedom of Speech Restoration Act. His paper was about the unfolding gay marriage debate.

Reynolds was recently accepted in the National Political Science Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha.