2021-22 Hearst Intercollegiate Winners Announced

San Francisco – – Winners of the Intercollegiate Writing, Photojournalism, Audio and Television and Multimedia Competitions of the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program have been announced.

The 2021-2022 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 students in these monthly competitions determine each discipline’s Intercollegiate ranking. The winners are 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 1,255 entries submitted this year in the writing, photojournalism, audio, television and multimedia competitions.

The 2022 Intercollegiate Competition winners, sharing $89,000 in prizes, are:
INTERCOLLEGIATE WRITING:
$10,000 First Place, University of Florida
$4,000 Second Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$2,000 Third Place, Syracuse University

INTERCOLLEGIATE PHOTOJOURNALISM:
$10,000 First Place, Western Kentucky University
$4,000 Second Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$2,000 Third Place, Arizona State University

INTERCOLLEGIATE AUDIO & TELEVISION:
$10,000 First Place, University of Missouri
$4,000 Second Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$2,000 Third Place, Syracuse 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, University of Southern California

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

Intercollegiate Writing trophies are awarded to: Arizona State University, fourth place; Pennsylvania State University, fifth place; Temple University, sixth place; Indiana University, seventh place; Stony Brook University, eighth place; University of Montana, ninth place; University of Missouri, tenth place.

Intercollegiate Photojournalism trophies are awarded to: University of Florida, fourth place; Ohio University, fifth place; University of Kentucky, sixth place; Michigan State University, seventh place; San Francisco State University, eight place; University of Montana, ninth place-tie; University of Oregon, ninth place-tie.

Intercollegiate Audio and Television trophies are awarded to: Arizona State University, fourth place; University of Florida, fifth place; Brigham Young University, sixth place; University of Texas at Austin, seventh place; Pennsylvania State University, eighth place; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ninth place; University of Nevada, Reno, tenth place.

Intercollegiate Multimedia trophies are awarded to:
 University of Oregon, fourth place; University of Missouri, fifth place; University of Nevada, Reno, sixth place; Syracuse University, seventh place; Arizona State University, eighth place; San Francisco State University, ninth place; Pennsylvania State University, tenth place.

Intercollegiate Overall trophies are awarded to:
 Western Kentucky University, fourth place; Syracuse University, fifth place; University of Missouri, sixth place; Pennsylvania State University, seventh place; University of Oregon, eighth place; University of Southern California, ninth place; University of Montana, 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, 103 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.