2024 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 2-7, 2024.
On Sunday, June 2, 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 Wednesday evening for review. The winners were announced at the awards ceremony Thursday 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.
