NEWS RELEASE
HEARST MULTIMEDIA COMPETITION I WINNERS NAMED
San Francisco – The winners in college multimedia journalism were announced today in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program, in which 105 undergraduate journalism programs at universities across the nation are eligible to participate. The category of this competition was Narrative Multimedia Storytelling – Features. 69 entries from 42 schools were submitted in this competition.
First Place has been awarded to SAMUEL GAUSE, a senior from University of Missouri. Samuel will receive a $2,600 scholarship for his winning multimedia piece titled “Transition in Flight” from the Columbiamissourian.com. University of Missouri will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners. Samuel also qualifies to participate in the Hearst National Championship this June in Washington, DC.
Other multimedia scholarship winners are:
Second Place, $2,000 award, KATHRYN L. CARLSON, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Third Place, $1,500 award, DANNY GUY, Western Kentucky University
Fourth Place, $1,000 award, DARIEL MEDINA, San Francisco State University
Fifth Place, $1,000 award, KATIE MCLEAN, Western Kentucky University
The sixth through tenth place finalists are:
Sixth Place, certificate, KAYLEE EVERLY, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Seventh Place, certificate, REBECA RODRIGUEZ, University of Texas, Austin
Eighth Place, certificate, ZHENRU ZHANG, Iowa State University of Science & Technology
Ninth Place, certificate, CAROLYN VAN HOUTEN, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tenth Place, certificate, CATIE L’HEUREUX, Northwestern University
The 54th annual Journalism Awards Program includes five writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, one radio competition, two television competitions, and three additional multimedia competitions. The program offers up to $500,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends annually.
The Multimedia judges are: Cory Tolbert Haik, Executive Producer for digital news, The Washington Post, VA; Sue Morrow, Assistant Multimedia Director, Sacramento Bee, CA; Kate O’Brian, President, Al Jazeera America, New York, NY.
Western Kentucky University is in first place after this first competition in the Intercollegiate Multimedia Competition with the highest accumulated student points. It is followed by: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Missouri; San Francisco State University; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Syracuse University; Iowa State University; Northwestern University (tie); Arizona State University (tie); University of Texas, Austin. The final intercollegiate winners will be announced in April. The top three intercollegiate winners earn $10,000, $4,000 and $2,000 respectively.
To view the winners’ work, please check the monthly winners section of the website.
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Contact: Jan Watten, 415.908.4565
jwatten@hearstfdn.org