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2012  HEARST  PERSONALITY/PROFILE  WRITING  WINNERS  NAMED 

San Francisco – The top 10 winners in college personality/profile writing were announced today in the 52nd annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program, in which 106 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation are eligible to participate.

First Place has been awarded to RACHEL  STARK of Indiana University.  Rachel will receive a $2,600 scholarship for her winning article “Runner’s High” published in Inside Magazine. Indiana University will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners. Rachel graduated in the spring of 2011, and consequently is not eligible to participate in the Championship per our guidelines.  As a result, the second place winner, JONATHAN SILMAN, from University of Florida, who will receive a $2,000 scholarship for his article titled “Telling the Story” from the Valley News, qualifies for the National Writing Championship this June in San Francisco.

Other top five scholarship winners are:

BIZ  CARSON, Indiana University, third place, $1,500 scholarship

ZACH  FELDMAN, Pennsylvania State University, fourth place, $1,000 scholarship

STEPHEN  DETHRAGE, University of Alabama, fifth place, $1,000 scholarship

The sixth through tenth place winners receive certificates of merit:

ALEXANDER  KATZ, Northwestern University, sixth place

KATHERINE  MARTIN, University of Alabama, seventh place

BLAKE  URSCH, University of Missouri, eighth place

PAUL  CASELLA, Pennsylvania State University, ninth place

WILLIAM  CAREY, Northwestern University, tenth place

Indiana University received first place in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition with the highest accumulated student points in the first four writing competitions.  They are followed by: Pennsylvania State University; Northwestern University; University of Kansas; Arizona State University; University of Missouri; University of Nebraska; University of Oregon; University of Florida; University of Montana.  The final intercollegiate results will be announced in April after the Breaking News Writing competition.

The Hearst Journalism Awards Program is conducted under the auspices of accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and fully funded and administered by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.  It consists of five monthly writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, three broadcast news competitions and four multimedia competitions, with Championship finals in all divisions.  The program awards up to $500,000 in scholarships and grants annually.

Judging the writing competition this year are:  Jennifer Sizemore, Vice President/Editor-in-Chief, MSNBC.com and Executive Producer, NBC News; Ward Bushee, Editor and Executive Vice President, The San Francisco Chronicle; and Marty Kaiser, Editor and Senior Vice President, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

There were 118 students from 65 universities who participated in this competition.  Samples of winning work can be viewed in the monthly winners section of our Web site, www.hearstawards.org, which is updated shortly after each competition.

Contact:
Jan C. Watten, program director
415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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HEARST  NATIONAL  PHOTOJOURNALISM  SEMI-FINALISTS  ANNOUNCED 

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the twelve college photojournalism students who have been selected as semi-finalists in the 52nd annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program.  They are the top winners in the two 2011-2012 photo competitions and two finalists with the highest scores earned from multiple placements in the competitions:

Brynn Anderson, Western Kentucky University 

Patrick Breen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 

Andrew Colwell, Pennsylvania State University 

Joel Hawksley, Ohio University 

Grant Hindsley, University of Missouri 

Jake May, Central Michigan University 

Maddie McGarvey, Ohio University 

Ashley Miller, Central Michigan University 

Elijah Nouvelage, San Francisco State University 

Christian Randolph, Western Kentucky University 

Meg Roussos, Ohio University 

Armando Sanchez, Western Kentucky University 

These twelve winners, whose work was selected from 146 entries, will submit additional photo portfolios for the semi-final round of judging.  The judges will evaluate the portfolios and select six finalists to participate in the program’s National Championship held June 4 – 8, 2012 in San Francisco.  During the Championship, the six photo finalists along with eight writing, five radio, five television and five multimedia finalists will complete spot news assignments, vying for additional scholarship awards of up to $5,000.

The photojournalism judges are:  Ken Geiger, Deputy Director of Photography, National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D.C.; Steve Gonzales, Director of Photography, Houston Chronicle, TX; and Geri Migielicz, Executive Editor, Story4, Ben Lomond, CA.

There are 106 universities with accredited undergraduate journalism schools eligible to participate in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.  The Journalism Awards Program added photojournalism to the competition in 1970, and is funded and administered by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.  The program awards up to $500,000 a year in scholarships, grants and stipends, and takes place under the auspices of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Contact:
Jan C. Watten, program director
415.908.4560
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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HEARST  MULTIMEDIA  COMPETITION  III – NEWS  FINALISTS  NAMED 

San Francisco – The top ten winners in college multimedia journalism were announced today in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program, in which 106 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation are eligible to participate.  The category of this competition was news.

First Place has been awarded to DELAYNA  EARLEY from Western Kentucky University.  Delayna will receive a $2,600 scholarship for her winning multimedia piece titled “Grassroots” published in the Common Wealth.  Western Kentucky University will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners.

Other multimedia top five scholarship winners are:

Second Place, $2,000 award, ANDY  AMBELANG, University of Montana

Third Place, $1,500 award, JEFF  SAINLAR, Western Kentucky University

Fourth Place, $1,000 award, SARAH  HOFFMAN, University of Missouri *

Fifth Place, $1,000 award, YUE  WU, Iowa State University

*As the first through third place winners are spring 2011 graduates, the fourth place winner, Sarah Hoffman, qualifies for the Hearst Journalism National Championship held in San Francisco in June 2012.

The sixth through tenth place finalists are:

Sixth Place, certificate, ELIZABETH  JENSEN, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Seventh Place, certificate, JONATHAN  REED, University of Alabama

Eighth Place, certificate, ALICIA  ATTERBERRY, Syracuse University

Ninth Place, certificate, PATRICK  BREEN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tenth Place, certificate,  EVAN  BELL, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Journalism Awards Program, now in its 52nd year also includes five writing contests, three broadcast news competitions, and three other multimedia competitions offering up to $500,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends.

The Multimedia judges are:  Geri Migielicz, Executive Editor, Story4, Ben Lomond, CA; Jennifer Sizemore, VP/ Editor-in-Chief, Msnbc.om, Executive Producer, NBC News; and Cory Tolbert Haik, Executive Producer, News, Innovations and Strategic Projects, The Washington Post, Arlington, VA.

Western Kentucky University is in first place after the first two multimedia competitions in the Intercollegiate Multimedia Competition with the highest accumulated student points.  It is followed by: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Missouri; University of Montana; Syracuse University; University of Nebraska; Pennsylvania State University;  Arizona State University; University of Florida; University of Oregon;; and.  The final Intercollegiate winners are announced in April.

To view the top finalists’ winning work, check the monthly winners section of the web site.

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Contact:
Jan Watten, program director
415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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HEARST  PHOTOJOURNALISM  WINNERS  NAMED  

San Francisco – Five college photographers have been named winners in the Picture Story/Series Competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.  This was the second of two photo competitions, in which 56 entries were submitted from 33 schools nationwide.

The top five winners, along with the top five finalists in competition I and two overall highest scorers, will submit additional photos for the semi-final round of judging in May. Six finalists will be chosen from that round to compete in the program’s National Photojournalism Championship in San Francisco this June, along with writing, broadcast and multimedia finalists.

The top five semi-finalists are:

First Place, $2,600 award, MEG  ROUSSOS, Ohio University

Second Place, $2,000 award, ANDREW  COLWELL, Pennsylvania State University

Third Place, $1,500 award, PATRICK  BREEN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Fourth Place, $1,000 award, ARMANDO  SANCHEZ, Western Kentucky University

Fifth Place, $1,000 award, MADALYN  McGARVEY, Ohio University

The sixth through tenth place finalists are:

Sixth Place, certificate, ELIJAH  NOUVELAGE, San Francisco State University

Seventh Place, certificate, GRANT  HINDSLEY, University of Missouri

Eighth Place, certificate, JARED  HAMILTON, Western Kentucky University

Ninth Place, certificate, MICHAEL  CIAGLO, University of Oregon

Tenth Place, certificate, SONJA  OCH, University of Missouri

Western Kentucky University has won the Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition with the highest accumulated student points in the two photo competitions.  It is followed by: Ohio University; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Pennsylvania State University; Central Michigan University; San Francisco State University; University of Missouri; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Florida; Iowa State University. The top three winners earn $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 respectively.

The photojournalism judges are:  Ken Geiger, Deputy Director of Photography, National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D.C.; Steve Gonzales, Director of Photography, Houston Chronicle, TX; and Geri Migielicz, Executive Editor, Story4, Ben Lomond, CA.

The Journalism Awards Program, now in its 52nd year, added photojournalism to the competition in 1970.  The program also includes five writing contests, three broadcast news competitions, and four multimedia competitions offering up to $500,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends.  The top five winning schools receive matching grants.

106 member universities of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with accredited undergraduate journalism programs are eligible to participate in the Hearst competitions.

To view the top finalists’ winning work, view the monthly winners section of the web site.

Contact:
Jan Watten, program director
415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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2012  HEARST  SPORTS  REPORTING  WINNERS  NAMED  

San Francisco – The top 10 winners in college sports reporting were announced today in the 52nd annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program, in which 106 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation are eligible to participate.

First Place has been awarded to TREY  MILLER, a senior from the Pennsylvania State University. Trey will receive a $2,600 scholarship for his winning article “Recruiting process works to adapt to NCAA rules, technology” published in The Lion’s Roar. Penn State University will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners.  Trey also qualifies for the National Writing Championship which takes place in San Francisco this June.

Other top five scholarship winners are:

EDWARD  CAHILL, Ball State University, second place, $2,000 scholarship

MICHAEL  CERULLO, University of Connecticut, third place, $1,500 scholarship

JAKE  KAPLAN, Pennsylvania State University, fourth place, $1,000 scholarship

STEPHANIE  KUZYDYM, Indiana University, fifth place, $1,000 scholarship

The sixth through tenth place winners receive certificates of merit:

NICO  ROESLER, University of Kansas, sixth place

JIMMY  CARTER, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, seventh place

JONATHAN  KENDRICK, University of Southern California, eighth place

COLIN  BECHT, Northwestern University, ninth place

JAYSON  JENKS, University of Kansas, tenth place

University of Kansas received first place in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition with the highest accumulated student points in the first three writing competitions.  They are followed by: Penn State University; Arizona State University; Indiana University; Northwestern University; University of Nebraska; University of Missouri; University of Oregon; University of Montana; University of Southern California.  The final intercollegiate results will be announced in April after the last writing competition.

The Hearst Journalism Awards Program is conducted under the auspices of accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and fully funded and administered by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.  It consists of five monthly writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, three broadcast news competitions and four multimedia competitions, with Championship finals in all divisions.  The program awards up to $500,000 in scholarships and grants annually.

Judging the writing competition this year are:  Jennifer Sizemore, Vice President/Editor-in-Chief, MSNBC.com and Executive Producer, NBC News; Ward Bushee, Editor and Executive Vice President, The San Francisco Chronicle; and Marty Kaiser, Editor and Senior Vice President, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

There were 109 students from 62 universities who participated in this competition.  Samples of winning work can be viewed in the monthly winners section of the Web site, which is updated shortly after each competition.

Contact:
Jan C. Watten, program director
415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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HEARST TELEVISION BROADCAST NEWS FINALISTS NAMED 

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the student television broadcast finalists selected in the 2011-2012 Journalism Awards Program’s Broadcast News Competition II.

Five television winners, selected from 57 entrants from 33 schools, will submit additional entries for a semi-final round of judging (along with five winners from Competition I).  Following the semi-finals, five television finalists will be chosen to participate in the 2012 Championship in San Francisco, along with the radio, writing, photojournalism and multimedia finalists.

The top television finalists are:

First Place, $2,600 award, NATHAN  O’NEAL, Arizona State University

Second Place, $2,000 award,  BLAKE  HANSON, University of Missouri

Third Place, $1,500 award,  LYDIA  DEFRANCHI, Brigham Young University

Fourth Place, $1,000 award,  DAVID  EARL  WIETLISPACH, University of Missouri

Fifth Place, $1,000 award,  KATHLEEN  WITTE, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sixth Place, certificate,  RYAN  HAARER, Arizona State University

Seventh Place, certificate, TOM  GEORGE, University of Maryland

Eighth Place, certificate,  SARAH  PHINNEY, Ball State University

Ninth Place, certificate,  JEFF  PACKER, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Tenth Place, certificate,  DAVID  KAPLAN, Syracuse University

The schools of all award-winning finalists receive matching grants.

The judges, all professionals in radio and television, are: Edward Esposito, Vice President, Information Media, Rubber City Radio Group, Akron, OH;  Kate O’Brian, Senior Vice President, ABC News, New York, NY; and Fred Young, retired Senior Vice President of News, Hearst Television Inc., Yardley, PA.

Arizona State University has won first place in the Intercollegiate Broadcast Competition with the highest accumulated student points from the Radio, Television I and Television II competitions.  It is followed by University of Southern California (tie); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (tie); University of Missouri; Brigham Young University; Syracuse University; University of Montana; Pennsylvania State University; University of Florida; University of Maryland.

The 2011-2012 broadcast news competitions are held in 106 member colleges and universities of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with accredited undergraduate journalism programs.  The Broadcast News Competition was added in 1988 to the Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program that for 52 years has included writing, photojournalism, and multimedia, and now offers awards totaling up to $500,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends.  Please check the monthly winners section of the Web site for the winning work, which is updated shortly after the completion of each competition.

Contact:
Jan C. Watten, program director
415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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HEARST  MULTIMEDIA  COMPETITION  II  —  REVISED  RELEASE 

Please note that this release is a corrected version after a finalist’s entry was withdrawn.

San Francisco – The top ten winners in college multimedia journalism were announced today in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program, in which 106 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation are eligible to participate.  The category of this competition was The Human Condition.

First Place has been awarded to ZACK  CONKLE, a senior from Western Kentucky University.  Zack will receive a $2,600 scholarship for his winning multimedia piece titled “The Only Sure Thing” from The Western Kentucky University Photojournalism Website. Western Kentucky University will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners.  He will attend the Championship in San Francisco this June along with finalists in writing, photojournalism, radio and television broadcast.

Other multimedia top five scholarship winners are:

Second Place, $2,000 award,  RYAN  STONE, Western Kentucky University

Third Place, $1,500 award,  JOHANNA  CONTRERAS, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fourth Place, $1,000 award,  SEAN  PROCTOR, Central Michigan University

Fifth Place, $1,000 award,  KELLEY  KING, Pennsylvania State University

The sixth through tenth place finalists are:

Sixth Place, certificate,  ANDREW  FORD, University of Florida

Seventh Place, certificate,  ROBERT  DYCK, University of Oregon

Eighth Place, certificate, ELLEN  THOMMESEN, University of Missouri

Ninth Place, certificate ALEXANDRIA  GREGORY, Arizona State University

Tenth Place, certificate,  EVAN  SERNOFSKY, University of Oregon

The Journalism Awards Program, now in its 52nd year also includes five writing contests, three broadcast news competitions, and three additional multimedia competitions offering up to $500,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends.

The Multimedia judges are:  Geri Migielicz, Executive Editor, Story4, Ben Lomond, CA; Jennifer Sizemore, VP/ Editor-in-Chief, Msnbc.om, Executive Producer, NBC News; and Cory Tolbert Haik, Executive Producer, News, Innovations and Strategic Projects, The Washington Post, Arlington, VA.

Western Kentucky University is in first place after the first two multimedia competitions in the Intercollegiate Multimedia Competition with the highest accumulated student points.  It is followed by: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Missouri; Arizona State University; Syracuse University; Pennsylvania State University; University of Montana; University of Oregon; University of Nebraska; and University of Florida.  The final Intercollegiate winners are announced in April.

To view the top finalists’ winning work, view the monthly winners section of the web site.

Contact:
Jan Watten
415.908.4565
jwatten@Hearstfdn.org

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2012  HEARST  ENTERPRISE  REPORTING  WINNERS  NAMED  

San Francisco – The top 10 winners in college enterprise reporting were announced today in the 52nd annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program, in which 106 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation are eligible to participate.

First Place has been awarded to ELLEN JEAN HIRST, a senior from the University of Nebraska.  Ellen will receive a $2,600 scholarship for her winning article titled “Turned Away” published in Bolivia Reborn.  University of Nebraska will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners.  Ellen also qualifies for the National Writing Championship which takes place in San Francisco this June.

Other top five scholarship winners are:

GARTH  SEARS, University of Kansas, second place, $2,000 scholarship

SARAH  BRUBECK, Indiana University, third place, $1,500 scholarship

KATY  BERGEN, University of Missouri, fourth place, $1,000 scholarship

MARIANNA  BRELAND, University of Mississippi, fifth place, $1,000 scholarship

The sixth through tenth place winners receive certificates of merit:

BRIAN  NORDLI, University of Missouri, sixth place

SAMANTHA  CAIOLA, Northwestern University, seventh place

NATASHA  ZOUVES, University of Southern California, eighth place

ALEXANDRA  STUCKEY, Ohio University, ninth place

JULIE  SICKEL, Kent State University, tenth place

Arizona State University received first place in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition with the highest accumulated student points in the first two competitions.  They are followed by: University of Nebraska; University of Missouri; University of Kansas; University of Oregon; University of Montana; Indiana University; Pennsylvania State University; Northwestern University; Kent State University.

The Hearst Journalism Awards Program is conducted under the auspices of accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and fully funded and administered by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.  It consists of five monthly writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, three broadcast news competitions and four multimedia competitions, with Championship finals in all divisions.  The program awards up to $500,000 in scholarships and grants annually.

Judging the writing competition this year are:  Jennifer Sizemore, Vice President/Editor-in-Chief, MSNBC.com and Executive Producer, NBC News; Ward Bushee, Editor and Executive Vice President, The San Francisco Chronicle; and Marty Kaiser, Editor and Senior Vice President, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

There were 93 students from 53 universities who participated in the program’s second writing competition of this academic year.  Samples of winning work can be viewed in the monthly winners section of our Web site, www.hearstawards.org, which is updated shortly after each competition.

Contact:
Jan C. Watten, program director
415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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HEARST MULTIMEDIA COMPETITION I WINNERS NAMED

San Francisco – The top ten winners in college multimedia journalism were announced today in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program, in which 106 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation are eligible to participate. The category of this competition was Narrative Multimedia Storytelling – Features.

First Place has been awarded to JONATHAN KASBE, a junior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jonathan will receive a $2,600 scholarship for his winning multimedia piece titled “Make a noise if you can hear me” from Reese News. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners. Jonathan also qualifies for the National Multimedia Championship which takes place in San Francisco this June along with finalists in writing, photojournalism, radio and television broadcast.

Other multimedia top five scholarship winners are:

Second Place, $2,000 award, CAITLYN GREENE, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Third Place, $1,500 award, ALEX PINES, Syracuse University

Fourth Place, $1,000 award, MATT BUSCH, University of Missouri

Fifth Place, $1,000 award, BEN ZACK, University of Missouri

The sixth through tenth place finalists are:

Sixth Place, certificate, BETHANY MOLLENKOF, Western Kentucky University

Seventh Place, certificate, GREG LINDSTROM, University of Montana

Eighth Place, certificate, KAT RUSSELL, California State University, Northridge

Ninth Place, certificate, LESLYE DAVIS, Western Kentucky University

Tenth Place, certificate, PATRICK BREEN, University of Nebraska

The Journalism Awards Program, now in its 52nd year also includes five writing contests, three broadcast news competitions, and three additional multimedia competitions offering up to $500,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends.

The Multimedia judges are: Geri Migielicz, Executive Editor, Story4, Ben Lomond, CA; Jennifer Sizemore, VP/ Editor-in-Chief, Msnbc.om, Executive Producer, NBC News; and Cory Tolbert Haik, Executive Producer, News, Innovations and Strategic Projects, The Washington Post, Arlington, VA.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is in first place after this first competition in the Intercollegiate Multimedia Competition with the highest accumulated student points. It is followed by: University of Missouri; Western Kentucky University; University of Montana; Syracuse University; University of Nebraska; Louisiana State University; Arizona State University; California State University, Northridge; Pennsylvania State University. The final Intercollegiate winners are announced in April.

To view the top finalists’ winning work, view the monthly winners section of the web site.
Contact:
Jan Watten, program director
415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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HEARST  PHOTOJOURNALISM  WINNERS  NAMED 

San Francisco – Five college photographers have been named winners in the November photojournalism competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Entries in the first of two photo competitions were in the categories of news and features.

The winners were selected from among 90 entries submitted from 51 schools nationwide.  The top five winners, along with the top five finalists in the next competition and two overall highest scorers, will submit additional photos for the semi-final round of judging next May.  Six finalists will be chosen from that round to compete in the program’s National Photojournalism Championship, along with writing, broadcast and multimedia finalists.

106 member universities of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with accredited undergraduate journalism programs are eligible to participate in the Hearst competitions.

The top five semi-finalists are:

First Place, $2,600 award, BRYNN  ANDERSON, Western Kentucky University

Second Place, $2,000 award, JOEL  HAWKSLEY, Ohio University

Third Place, $1,500 award, CHRISTIAN  RANDOLPH, Western Kentucky University

Fourth Place, $1,000 award, JAKE  MAY, Central Michigan University

Fifth Place, $1,000 award, ASHLEY  MILLER, Central Michigan University

The sixth through tenth place finalists are:

Sixth Place, certificate, PATRICK  BREEN, University of Nebraska

Seventh Place, certificate, HANNAH  POTES, Kent State University

Eighth Place, certificate, ELIJAH  NOUVELAGE, San Francisco State University

Ninth Place, certificate, ANDREW  COLWELL, Pennsylvania State University

Tenth Place, certificate, ANDREW  DICKINSON, University of Nebraska

The Journalism Awards Program, now in its 52nd year, added photojournalism to the competition in 1970.  The program also includes five writing contests, three broadcast news competitions, and four multimedia competitions offering up to $500,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends.  The top five winning schools receive matching grants.

The photojournalism judges are:  Ken Geiger, Deputy Director of Photography, National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D.C.; Geri Migielicz, Executive Editor, Story4, Ben Lomond, CA; and Steve Gonzales, Director of Photography, Houston Chronicle, TX.

Western Kentucky University is in first place after this first competition in the Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition with the highest accumulated student points. It is followed by: Ohio University; Central Michigan University; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Kent State University; Pennsylvania State University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; San Francisco State University; University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale; and Kansas State University.  The final Intercollegiate winners are announced in April.  To view the top finalists’ winning work, view the monthly winners section of the website.

Contact:
Jan Watten, program director
415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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