2024-25 Multimedia

2025 Multimedia Championship

This year marked the fourteenth Hearst National Multimedia Championship. From the 254 multimedia entries received in the monthly competitions, five winners
qualified for this special event in San Francisco. The finalists met their judges on Saturday May 31 for orientation, to review the assignment and to receive a critique of their work.

This year, the finalists were asked to produce a piece on the following prompt: “Made in America.”

The judges received the finalists’ multimedia pieces Wednesday evening, and the winners were announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday.

The first-through-third place winners were awarded scholarships of $10,000, $7,500, and $5,000 respectively.

The finalists earned a $1,500 scholarship.

The winners and finalists are featured below.

Winners

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Faith Cabalum
First Place
Michigan State University
$10,000 scholarship

Finalists

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Madeline Powell
Finalist
Western Kentucky University
$1,500 scholarship