2021 Hearst Intercollegiate Winners Announced

SAN FRANCISCO – This year’s winners of the Intercollegiate Writing, Photojournalism, Audio and Television and Multimedia Competitions of the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program share $89,000 in awards.

The 2020-2021 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, audio, television and multimedia for journalism undergraduates. The points earned by individual students in these monthly 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 from the 1,325 entries submitted this year in the writing, photojournalism, audio, television and multimedia competitions.

The 2021 Intercollegiate Competition winners are:

INTERCOLLEGIATE WRITING:
$10,000 First Place, Syracuse University

$4,000 Second Place, Indiana University

$2,000 Third Place, Arizona State University

INTERCOLLEGIATE 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

INTERCOLLEGIATE AUDIO & TELEVISION:
$10,000 First Place, University of Florida

$4,000 Second Place, Arizona State University

$2,000 Third Place, Michigan State University

INTERCOLLEGIATE MULTIMEDIA:
$10,000 First Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

$4,000 Second Place, Western Kentucky University

$2,000 Third Place, San Francisco State University

INTERCOLLEGIATE OVERALL:
$25,000 First Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Second Place, University of Florida
Third Place, Western Kentucky University

Intercollegiate Writing trophies are awarded to:
 University of Florida, fourth place; University of Oklahoma, fifth place; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sixth place; Drake University, seventh place; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, eighth place; Brigham Young University, ninth place; Pennsylvania State University, tenth place.

Intercollegiate Photojournalism trophies are awarded to:
 University of Montana, fourth place; University of Kentucky, fifth place; Ball State University, sixth place-tie; Pennsylvania State University, sixth place-tie; University of Oregon, eight place; University of Florida, ninth place; Syracuse University, tenth place.

Intercollegiate Audio and Television trophies are awarded to:
 University of Missouri, fourth place; Syracuse University, fifth place; University of Texas, Austin, sixth place; Kent State University, seventh place-tie; Pennsylvania State University, seventh place-tie; Murray State University, ninth place; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tenth place.

Intercollegiate Multimedia trophies are awarded to:
 University of Florida, fourth place; University of Missouri, fifth place; Stony Brook University, sixth place; Arizona State University, seventh place; Elon University, eighth place-tie; Syracuse University, eighth place-tie; University of Montana, tenth place.

Intercollegiate Overall trophies are awarded to:

Fourth Place, Syracuse University; Fifth Place, Arizona State University; Sixth Place, University of Missouri; Seventh Place, Pennsylvania State University; Eighth Place, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Ninth Place, Ohio University; Tenth Place, University of Kentucky.

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, 104 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.

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.

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