NATION’S JOURNALISM SCHOOLS WIN $89,000 IN HEARST PRIZES
SAN FRANCISCO – Eight universities shared prizes totaling $89,000 as this year’s winners of the Intercollegiate
Writing, Photojournalism and Broadcast and Multimedia Competitions of the annual
Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
The 2017-2018 prizes are awarded to the top universities in each division of the Intercollegiate Competitions,
with the top ten of each category receiving Hearst trophies.
Often called “The Pulitzers of college journalism,” the Hearst program holds year-long competitions in writing, photojournalism, radio, television and multimedia for journalism undergraduates. Journalism schools
accumulating the most points earned by their students in each category are designated the winners of the
Intercollegiate Competitions.
The Overall Intercollegiate winners are those schools with the highest combined student points from the 1,314 entries submitted this year.
The 2018 Intercollegiate Competition winners are:
WRITING:
$10,000 First Place, Indiana University
$ 4,000 Second Place, Pennsylvania State University
$ 2,000 Third Place, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
PHOTOJOURNALISM:
$10,000 First Place, Western Kentucky University
$ 4,000 Second Place, Ohio University
$ 2,000 Third Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BROADCAST RADIO & TV:
$10,000 First Place, University of Missouri
$ 4,000 Second Place, University of Florida
$ 2,000 Third Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MULTIMEDIA:
$10,000 First Place, Western Kentucky University
$ 4,000 Second Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$ 2,000 Third Place, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
OVERALL:
$25,000 First Place, Western Kentucky University
Second Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Third Place, Pennsylvania State University
The winners in each category will receive cash prizes and trophies during the National
Championships Intercollegiate Awards ceremony in San Francisco on June 5, 2018.
Intercollegiate Writing trophies are awarded to Syracuse University, fourth place; Western Kentucky University, fifth place; University of Florida, sixth place; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, seventh place; Arizona State University, eighth place; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ninth place; Oklahoma State University, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Photojournalism trophies are awarded to: University of Missouri, fourth place; Pennsylvania State University, fifth place; University of Nebraska – Lincoln, sixth place; Central Michigan University, seventh place; San Francisco State University, eighth place-tie; Syracuse University, eighth place-tie; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Broadcast Ratio & TV trophies are awarded to: Syracuse University, fourth place;
Arizona State University, fifth place; University of southern California, sixth place; Temple University, seventh place; Pennsylvania State University, eighth place; University of Texas at Austin, ninth place; Brigham Young
University, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Multimedia trophies are awarded to: University of Florida, fourth place; Syracuse University, fifth place; Pennsylvania State University, sixth place; University of Oregon, seventh place; University of Missouri, eighth place; San Francisco State University, ninth place; University of Montana, tenth place.
Overall Intercollegiate trophies are awarded to: University of Florida, fourth place; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, fifth place; Syracuse University, sixth place; University of Missouri, seventh place; Indiana University, eighth place; Arizona State University, ninth place; Ohio University, tenth place.
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program operates under the auspices of the accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. It is fully funded and administered by The William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Currently, 105 accredited undergraduate schools of journalism in the United States are eligible to participate in the program, which awards up to $700,000 in scholarships and grants annually. The
Intercollegiate Awards have been acknowledged since the inception of the program, and in 1990 monetary awards were added to the Hearst Journalism Awards Program budget.
The points earned by individual students in the monthly writing, photojournalism, radio, television and
multimedia competitions determine each discipline’s Intercollegiate ranking. The winners are those schools with the highest accumulated student points in each category. The overall Intercollegiate winners are the schools with the highest accumulated student points in the writing, photojournalism, broadcast and multimedia competitions.
Publisher William Randolph Hearst established the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and The Hearst
Foundation, Inc. in the 1940’s, a few years before his death in 1951. Since then, the Foundations have awarded over one billion dollars in grants and programs.
