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2012  HEARST  CHAMPIONSHIP  FINALISTS  ANNOUNCED

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the 29 journalism students who will compete in the 52nd annual National Championship of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

These finalists were the top winners in the 14 writing, photojournalism, radio broadcast, television broadcast and multimedia competitions of the 2011-2012 Hearst Journalism Program. Their work was selected as the best of the 1,059 entries received from 92 journalism schools across the country. At the National Championship, they will complete spot assignments for additional scholarship awards of up to $5,000. The Championship is held in San Francisco, June 4 – 8, 2012.

The Writing finalists are:

BIZ  CARSON, Indiana University

ELLEN  JEAN  HIRST, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

TREY  MILLER, Pennsylvania State University

TAYLOR  D. MOAK, University of Kentucky

ANASTASIA  ORSO, Pennsylvania State University

KELLY  PARSONS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

WESTON PHIPPEN, Arizona State University

JON  SILMAN, University of Florida

The Photojournalism finalists are:

BRYNN  ANDERSON, Western Kentucky University

ANDREW  COLWELL, Pennsylvania State University

ELIJAH  NOUVELAGE, San Francisco State University

CHRISTIAN  RANDOLPH, Western Kentucky University

MEG  ROUSSOS, Ohio University 

ARMANDO  SANCHEZ, Western Kentucky University

The Radio finalists are:

REEMA  KHRAIS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

HEATHER  ARONNO, University of Alaska, Anchorage

CLARK  HODGES, University of Montana

STEVEN  GALLO, University of Florida

STEPHEN  TANNER, Brigham Young University 

The Television finalists are:

BLAKE  HANSON, University of Missouri

DAN  NELIGH, Arizona State University

NATHAN  O’NEAL, Arizona State University 

DAVID  EARL  WIETLISPACH, University of Missouri

NATASHA  ZOUVES, University of Southern California 

The Multimedia finalists are:

ZACK CONKLE, Western Kentucky University

SARAH  HOFFMAN, University of Missouri

JON  KASBE University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

KELLEY  KING, Pennsylvania State University 

JONATHAN  REED, University of Alabama 

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CONTACT:

Jan Watten,
415-908-4560
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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HEARST MULTIMEDIA COMPETITION  IV – TEAM REPORTING WINNERS NAMED 

San Francisco – The top ten winners in college multimedia team reporting were announced today in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program, in which 106 undergraduate journalism programs at universities across the nation are eligible to participate.

First Place has been awarded to University of Nebraska’s Andrew Dickinson and Mary-Ellen Kennedy for their entry “Ethiopians”  published in DailyNebraskan.com.  They will receive a $2,600 scholarship.

The University of Nebraska’s journalism department will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners.

Other winning multimedia teams:

2nd place, $2,000 award, Christina Serrano, Nicole Yang, and Ariana van den Akker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3rd place, $1,500 award, Alyssa Orr, Elizabeth Frantz, Zack Conkle, Luke Sharrett , Kelly Lafferty, Chris Wilson, Chris Fryer, Lauren Lorance, Megan Tan, Sarah Gerace, Leslye Davis, Sam Oldenburg, Western Kentucky University

4th Place, $1,000 award, Stephen Mitchell and Pamela Tseng, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

5th Place, $1,000 award, Jon Augustine and Kaylee Everly, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

6th place, Estee Beck, Sarah Brown-Cohen, Rob Copeland, Caitlyn Finnegan, Nicole Greiner, Steve Johnson, Alex Kaufman, George Pappas, Melissa Pender, Matthew Riva, Ali Robertson, Jillian Rogers, and David Tintner, University of Florida

7th place,  Robert Downs and Joe Michaud-Scorza, University of Minnesota

8th place, Tia Castaneda, Ellie Cano, Kylee Gauna, Jessie McDonough, Maycie Thornton, Channing Turner, Colton Shone, Aldo Vazquez, Laura Yanez and Alysson Zepeda, Arizona State University

9th place, Rachelle Hacmac, Lorie Anne Acio, Edwin Oullette, Lauren Jow, Anthony Rimel, Katie Burke, and Branden Fitzpatrick, University of Oregon

10th Place, Daniel Brenner, Amanda Bromwich, Evan Bush, Adam Falk, Andrew Feiler, Michelle Flandreau, Campbell Massie, Catherine O’Neill, Alex Rozier, Alex Ruppenthal, Kyle Stokes, and Zach Wade, U. of Missouri

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

Western Kentucky University has won the Intercollegiate Multimedia Competition with the highest accumulated student points.  WKU is followed by: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Missouri; University of Nebraska; University of Montana; Arizona State University; Pennsylvania State University; Syracuse University; University of Florida; and University of Oregon.

The top finalists’ winning work can be viewed in the monthly winners section of the website.

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Contact:
Jan Watten,
415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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2012  HEARST  BREAKING NEWS  WRITING  WINNERS  NAMED

San Francisco – The top 10 winners in college breaking news 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 ANASTASIA  ORSO of Pennsylvania State University. Anastasia will receive a $2,600 scholarship for her winning article “Sandusky charged; Curley, Schultz step down” published in The Daily Collegian. Pennsylvania State University will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners.

Other top five scholarship winners are:

BECCA  CLEMONS, University of Kentucky, second place, $2,000 scholarship

KELLY  PARSONS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, third place, $1,500 scholarship

COLTON  TOTLAND, University of Oregon, fourth place, $1,000 scholarship

TAYLOR  MOAK, University of Kentucky, fifth place, $1,000 scholarship

The sixth through tenth place winners receive certificates of merit:

CHARLES  SCUDDER, Indiana University, sixth place

FRANNIE  SPROULS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, seventh place

ALEXANDER  ANGERT, Pennsylvania State University, eighth place

ANDREA  GALLO, Louisiana State University, ninth place

HARRY  PLUMER, University of Missouri, tenth place

Pennsylvania State University has won the Intercollegiate Writing Competition with the highest accumulated student points in the five writing competitions.  They are followed by: Indiana University; Northwestern University; University of Missouri; Arizona State University; University of Kansas; University of Oregon; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; University of Florida; University of Kentucky. The top three winners earn $10,000, $5,000, and $2,500 grants respectively. The top ten winners are awarded medallions.

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 81 students from 46 universities who participated in this competition. Samples of winning work can be viewed in the monthly winners section of the website 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  FINALISTS  NAMED

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the five college multimedia students who have been selected as finalists in the 52nd annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program.  They are the winners of multimedia competition I – Features, multimedia competition II – The Human Condition and multimedia competition III – News, plus two students with the high score from those competitions.

The multimedia finalists are:

Zack Conkle, Western Kentucky University

Sarah Hoffman, University of Missouri

Jonathan Kasbe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Kelley King, Pennsylvania State University

Jonathan Reed, University of Alabama

These five winners, whose work was selected from 142 entries submitted from 49 schools, will participate in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s National Championships held June 4 – 8, 2012 in San Francisco.  During the Championship, the multimedia finalists along with finalists in writing, radio, television photojournalism will complete spot news assignments, vying for additional scholarship awards of up to $5,000.

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

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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2012  HEARST  NATIONAL  WRITING  FINALISTS  ANNOUNCED

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the eight undergraduate journalism students from around the country who will compete in the 52nd annual National Writing Championships of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

The finalists include five winners in the monthly writing competitions and three entrants with the highest accumulated scores from these competitions.  From the 535 writing entries submitted in this year’s writing competitions, these eight finalists will participate in various spot assignments, competing for additional scholarship awards ranging from $1,500 to $5,000 in the Program’s National Championships, held in San Francisco, June 4 – 8, 2012.

Also competing in the National Championships will be six photojournalism finalists, five radio broadcast finalists, five television broadcast finalists and five multimedia finalists.

The 2012 National Writing Championship finalists are:

BIZ  CARSON, Indiana University

ELLEN  JEAN  HIRST, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

TREY  MILLER, Pennsylvania State University

TAYLOR  MOAK, University of Kentucky

ANASTASIA  ORSO, Pennsylvania State University

KELLY  PARSONS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

WESTON PHIPPEN, Arizona State University

JON  SILMAN, University of Florida

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.

Presently, 106 colleges and universities with accredited undergraduate journalism schools are eligible to participate in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.  Funded and administered for 52 years by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Journalism Program awards up to $500,000 a year in scholarships, grants and stipends annually

CONTACT:
Jan Watten, program director
415-908-4560
jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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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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