2024-2025 Hearst Television News Winners Announced
San Francisco – Winners have been announced in the Television News Competition of the
2024-2025 Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
There were 78 entries from 47 schools submitted in the second television competition of the year.
First Place has been awarded to Denzen Cortez, a senior from the Arizona State University. Denzen wins a $3,000 award and qualifies for the National Television Championship which will be in San Francisco in June 2025.
The second-through-fifth place finalists are:
Second Place, $2,000 award, Siobhan Harms, University of Missouri
Third Place, $1,500 award, Ethan Hunter, Michigan State University
Fourth Place, $1,000 award, Leah Phillips, Arizona State University
Fifth Place, $1,000 award, Samantha Hoffman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The top five winning schools receive matching grants.
The sixth-through-tenth place finalists are:
Sixth Place, certificate, Ricky Podgorski, University of Maryland
Seventh Place, certificate, Karina Prieto, Michigan State University
Eighth Place, certificate, Nicole Marino, Louisiana State University
Ninth Place, certificate, Claudia Di Lima, West Virginia University
Tenth Place, certificate, Bethany Cates, University of Missouri
University of Missouri is in first place in the Intercollegiate Broadcast Competition with the highest accumulated student points from the first three broadcast competitions.
They are followed by: Arizona State University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michigan State University; University of Florida; University of Maryland; Western Kentucky University; Louisiana State University; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Pennsylvania State University.
The top three intercollegiate winners earn $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 respectively, and will be announced after the completion of the podcast competition in May.
The television judges are: Candy Altman, retired Vice President of News, Hearst Television; Holly Quan, Reporter/Anchor, KCBS Radio; Jeff Bartlett, retired President and General Manager, WMUR-TV.
The 65th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program added broadcast journalism to the competitions in 1988. The program also includes four writing, two photojournalism and four multimedia competitions offering up to $700,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends. 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.
