San Francisco – Winners have been announced in the Multimedia Narrative Video Storytelling Competition of the 2024-2025 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. The winners were selected from 81 entries from 47 schools submitted in the first multimedia competition of the year.
First Place has been awarded to Faith Cabalum, a December 2024 graduate from Michigan State University. Faith wins a $3,000 scholarship for the video titled “Over the Years: A film about the human perspective on aging.” Faith also qualifies for the National Multimedia Championship in June 2025.
Second Place, $2,000 award, Max Feliu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Third Place, $1,500 award, Ethan Jamba, University of Montana
Fourth Place, $1,000 award, Kayden Mulrooney, Western Kentucky University
Fifth Place, $1,000 award, Adin Parks, Western Kentucky University
The top five winning schools will receive matching grants.
Sixth-through-tenth place finalists:
Sixth Place, certificate, Hannah Zinn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Seventh Place, certificate, Jenna Bloom, University of Maryland
Eighth Place, certificate, Kimberly Blum, University of Florida
Ninth Place, certificate, Lukas Vysniauskas, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tenth Place, certificate, Katharyn Macdonald, Elon University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is in first place in the Intercollegiate Multimedia Competition with the highest accumulated student points in the first multimedia competition of the year.
They are followed by:
Western Kentucky University
Michigan State University
University of Montana
University of Maryland
University of Florida
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Indiana University of Nebraska-Lincoln (tie)
Florida International University (tie)
University of Nevada, Reno
The top three intercollegiate winners earn $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 respectively. The final intercollegiate
winners will be announced after the completion of the four multimedia competitions and presented during the National Championships in San Francisco this June.
The multimedia judges are: Robert Scheer, Deputy Managing Editor for Visuals, Post & Courier; Lauren Frohne, Lead Video Journalist, The Seattle Times; Jim Seida, Producer, NBC News.
The 65th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program includes four writing, two photo, one audio, two television, one podcast and four multimedia competitions offering up to $700,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends. Currently, there are 105 universities of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with accredited undergraduate journalism programs are eligible to participate in the Hearst competitions.