2022-23 Audio

2023 Audio Championship

This year, one audio competition was held in the News & Features category. The top winners from those 65 entrants qualified to participate in the Hearst National Audio
Championship in San Francisco June 3-8, 2023.

On Saturday, June 3, the audio finalists and judges met for orientation, a critique of the qualifying assignments and a review of the Championship assignment.

For the Championship assignment, the audio finalists were assigned a story about artificial intelligence.

The judges received the completed entries by Tuesday evening for review. The winners were announced at the awards ceremony Wednesday evening.

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

The two finalists earned $1,500 scholarships each.

An additional $1,000 award for Best Use of Audio for News Coverage was selected from the semi-final competition submissions.

The winners and finalists are featured below.

Winners

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Sophie Mallinson
First Place
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
$10,000 scholarship

Finalists

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Hallie Gutzwiller
Finalist
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
$1,500 scholarship

Additional Award

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John Perik
Best use of Audio for
News Coverage
Syracuse University
$1,000 scholarship