The Fund for American Studies and The Wall Street Journal announced Tuesday that Kate Farmer, Cole Murphy and Suzanna Murawski as the three recipients of the 2025 Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism.
This year marks the first time since the Fellowship was founded in 2018 that three outstanding individuals have been selected in one year.
Farmer is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis, where she will graduate this spring with her undergraduate degree in philosophy, data science, and text and tradition. She is also a writer and commentator for Young Voices, and her work has appeared in various media outlets, including RealClearPolitics, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Washington Examiner.
Murphy is a senior pursuing his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently a reporter for The Morning Dispatch. Murphy previously served as a fellow at the College Fix and editor-in-chief for the Technique, Georgia Tech’s student newspaper.
Murawski recently graduated from the University of Chicago, where she received a master’s degree in political theory and a bachelor’s degree from the university’s Fundamentals program. She is currently a Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion.
As Rago Fellows, Farmer, Murphy, and Murawski will work with the Opinion section of The Journal through a nine-month internship beginning this fall. This Fellowship is named in honor of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Joseph Rago, who was a rising star at The Wall Street Journal and a key member of its Editorial Board before he passed away at the age of 34 in 2017.
