San Francisco – Winners have been announced in the Digital News/Enterprise Multimedia Team Competition of the 2024-2025 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. The winners were selected from 60 entries from 35 schools submitted in the final multimedia competition of the year.
First Place has been awarded to Maggie Knutte, Elena Cleary, Nathan Gonzalez, Piper Pascarella, Nour Longi, Faith Lee from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The team wins a $3,000 scholarship for the piece titled “Tailoring Hope.”
There is no Championship component for this team competition.
Second Place, $2,000 award, Aayas Joshi & Anna Connors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Third Place, $1,500 award, Brett Phelps, Hydia Jackson, Wyatt Richardson, Western Kentucky University
Fourth Place, $1,000 award, Vanina Dimitrova, Caroline McCone, Caroline Larson, JJ Measer, Ashlee Klotzbuecher, Halley Paulus, University of Missouri
Fifth Place, $1,000 award, Margaret McIntyre, Hannah Zinn, Anna Laible, Hailey Patterson, Mckenzie Bulris, Emily Rollins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The top five winning schools will receive matching grants.
Sixth-through-tenth place finalists:
Sixth Place, certificate, Lauren Becker, Ranya Jennifer Salvant, Lizzy Lee, Nick Beccar Varela, Daniel Teitelbaum, Erin Morrison, University of Oregon
Seventh Place, certificate, Maria Avlonitis, Kimberly Blum, Sabrina Castro, Gabriella Chavez, Alex Land, Franklin Omar Lopez, Caia Reese, Nathan Thomas, Kat Tran, Luena Rodriguez-Feo Vileira, University of Florida
Eighth Place, certificate, Ali Costello, Connor Marchant, Von Smith, Emilee Arnold, Dominic Di Palermo, Lauren Howe, Preston Jenkins, Kayden Mulrooney, Adin Parks, Arthur H. Trickett-Wile, Sean McInnis, Madeline Powell, Garrett Woodrum, Western Kentucky University
Ninth Place, certificate, Julia Schamko, Denzen Cortez, Sam Ballesteros, Arizona State University
Tenth Place, certificate, Torin Smith and Holland Mowry and team, University Georgia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has won the Intercollegiate Multimedia Competition with the highest accumulated student points in the four multimedia competitions held this year.
They are followed by:
Western Kentucky University
University of Missouri
University of Florida
University of Oregon
Syracuse University
University of Southern California
Michigan State University
Arizona State University
Pennsylvania University
The top three intercollegiate winners earn $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 respectively.
The multimedia judges are: Robert Scheer, Deputy Managing Editor for Visuals, Post & Courier; Lauren Frohne, Lead Video Journalist, The Seattle Times; Jim Seida, Producer, NBC News.
The 65th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program includes four writing, two photo, one audio, two television, one podcast and four multimedia competitions offering up to $700,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends. Currently, there are 105 universities of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with accredited undergraduate journalism programs are eligible to participate in the Hearst competitions.
