NEWS RELEASE
HEARST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS NAMED
SAN FRANCISCO – Winning college journalists in the National Writing, Photojournalism and Broadcast News Championships were announced on June 5, 2008 by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Program.
The Hearst Championships – the culmination of the 2007-2008 Journalism Awards Program, with 108 undergraduate colleges and universities competing under the auspices of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication – were held in San Francisco, May 31-June 5, 2008.
Finalists were brought to San Francisco to demonstrate their writing, photography, radio and television skills in rigorous on-the-spot assignments. Assignments were decided by media professionals, also brought in to judge the students’ work. The following are the first, second and third place winners and the scholarships they received:
NATIONAL WRITING CHAMPIONSHIP
First Place, JOHN W. COX, University of Florida, $5,000 scholarship
Second Place, ANDREW R. MCGILL, Pennsylvania State University, $4,000 scholarship
Third Place, MATTHEW BAKER, Northwestern University, $3,000 scholarship
NATIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM CHAMPIONSHIP
First Place, JEFF GIRALDO, Western Kentucky University, $5,000 award
Second Place, MICHAEL PAULSEN, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $4,000 award
Third Place, JUSTIN MAXON, San Francisco State University, $3,000 award
NATIONAL RADIO BROADCAST NEWS CHAMPIONSHIP
First Place, LAUREN BROOKMEYER, Hofstra University, $5,000 award
Second Place, SARA CARMICHAEL, Syracuse University, $4,000 award
Third Place, WALTER R. STORHOLT, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, $3,000 award
NATIONAL TELEVISION BROADCAST NEWS CHAMPIONSHIP
First Place, JASON LAMB, University of Missouri, $5,000 award
Second Place, ADAM MILLER, Northwestern University, $4,000 award
Third Place, MAIKA D. BAUERLE, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $3,000 award
Five runners-up in the Writing Championship, who will each receive a $1,500 scholarship, are (listed in alphabetical order): NICHOLAS J. COMPTON, University of Iowa; TIARA ETHERIDGE, University of Oklahoma; ANGELA S. HAUPT, Pennsylvania State University; EPHRAIM C. PAYNE, University of Oregon; JENNIFER J. TRAMM, University of Arizona.
The $1,000 Award for Best Reporting Technique went to TIARA ETHERIDGE, University ofOklahoma, for her feature article in The Oklahoma Daily titled “Taking Mind.” The Article of the Year Award of $1,000 went to NICHOLAS COMPTON, University of Iowa, for his sports article inThe Daily Iowan titled “Running to the Future.”
Three runners-up in the Photojournalism Championship, who will each receive a $1,500 scholarship, are (listed in alphabetical order): IKURU KUWAJIMA, University of Missouri; JESSICA PONS, San Francisco State University; JOHN TULLY, University of Missouri.
The $1,000 award for Best Single Photograph went to JUSTIN MAXON, San Francisco StateUniversity; and the Best Picture Story/Series Award of $1,000 went to JESSICA PONS, San Francisco State University.
Each semi-finalist in the Photojournalism Championship receives a $1,000 scholarship. They are listed in alphabetical order: JOHN ADKISSON, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; PHILIP ANDREWS, Western Kentucky University; AARON BORTON, Western Kentucky University; ROBERT LEISTRA, Ball State University; TIM HUSSIN, University of Florida: Michael Mullady II, San Francisco State University.
Two runners-up in the Radio Broadcast News Championship, who will each receive a $1,500 scholarship, are (listed in alphabetical order): MILES DORAN, University of Florida; BRIAN HARDZINSKI, University of Oklahoma. Two runners-up in the Television Broadcast News Championship, who will each receive a $1,500 scholarship, are (listed in alphabetical order): BONNIE BOLT, Arizona State University; G. AARON PATTERSON, Pennsylvania State University.
The $1,000 Award for Best Use of Radio For News Coverage went to SARA CARMICHAEL,Syracuse University. The Best Use of Television For News Coverage Award of $1,000 went toADAM MILLER, Northwestern University.
Each semi-finalist in the Radio Broadcast News Championship receives a $1,000 scholarship. They are listed in alphabetical order: BRIAN BOHL, Hofstra University; ELIZABETH NICOLE ERWIN, Murray State University; KIMBERLY J. SALTMARSH, Hofstra University; JULIA L. RITCHEY, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; BETH CROUGHAN, Syracuse University.
Each semi-finalist in the Television Broadcast News Championship receives a $1,000 scholarship. They are listed in alphabetical order: BRITTANY JONES-COOPER, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; MICHELLE ASHWORTH, Arizona State University; THOMAS HENDRICK, University of Colorado,; ELEXANDER MICHAELSON, University of Southern California; JENNIFER CARPENTER, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The Awards Ceremony was held at the Exploratorium Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception in San Francisco. The keynote speech was delivered by William Randolph Hearst III, President of the Board.
Judging the writing competition this year were: Arthur S. Brisbane, Consultant, ASB Consulting,Los Gatos, CA; Stephen Buckley, Publisher, Tampabay.com, FL; and Jeff Cohen, Executive Vice President and Editor, Houston Chronicle, TX.
The photojournalism judges were: Janet Reeves, Senior Editor for Photography and Multimedia,The Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO; Mary Shanahan, Creative Director, Town & Country Magazine, New York, NY; and Pim Van Hemmen, Managing Editor for Digital News, The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ.
The Broadcast News judges were: Barbara Cochran, President, RTNDA, Washington, DC; Michael Luckoff, President and General Manager, KGO AM Radio, Inc., San Francisco, CA; and Fred Young, Senior Vice President of News, Hearst-Argyle Television, New York, NY.
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation was established by its namesake in 1948 underCalifornia non-profit laws, exclusively for educational and charitable purposes. Since then, the Hearst Foundations have contributed $700 million to numerous educational programs, including this one, and to health and medical care, human services and the arts in every state.
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Jan C. Watten, Program Director
415-908-4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org
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