NATION’S JOURNALISM SCHOOLS WIN $64,000 IN HEARST PRIZES
SAN FRANCISCO – Seven universities shared prizes totaling $64,000 as this year’s winners of the Intercollegiate Writing, Photojournalism and Broadcast News and Multimedia Competitions of the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
The 2016-2017 prizes are awarded to the top three universities in each division of the Intercollegiate Competitions, with the top ten of each category receiving Hearst trophies.
Often called “The Pulitzers of college journalism,” the Hearst program holds year-long competitions in writing, photojournalism, broadcast news and multimedia for journalism undergraduates. Journalism schools accumulating the most points earned by their students in each category are designated the winners of the Intercollegiate Competitions.
The Overall Intercollegiate winners are those schools with the highest combined student points from the 1,267 entries submitted this year.
The 2017 Intercollegiate Competition winners are:
WRITING:
$10,000 First Place, Indiana University
$ 4,000 Second Place, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
$ 2,000 Third Place, Pennsylvania State University
PHOTOJOURNALISM:
$10,000 First Place, Western Kentucky University
$ 4,000 Second Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$ 2,000 Third Place, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
BROADCAST RADIO & TV:
$10,000 First Place, University of Missouri
$ 4,000 Second Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$ 2,000 Third Place, Arizona State University
MULTIMEDIA:
$10,000 First Place, Western Kentucky University
$ 4,000 Second Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$ 2,000 Third Place, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
OVERALL:
First Place , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Second Place, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Third Place, Western Kentucky University
The winners in each category will receive cash prizes and trophies during the National Championships Intercollegiate Awards ceremony in San Francisco on May 31st, 2017.
Intercollegiate Writing trophies are awarded to Oklahoma State University, fourth place; University of Maryland, fifth place; Syracuse University, sixth place; University of Montana, seventh place; University of Missouri, eighth place; Northwestern University, ninth place; Arizona State University, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Photojournalism trophies are awarded to: Ohio University, fourth place; Syracuse University, fifth place; University of Florida, sixth place; Arizona State University, seventh place; San Francisco State University, eighth place; Pennsylvania State University, ninth place; Kent State University, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Broadcast Ratio & TV trophies are awarded to: University of southern California, fourth place; University of Florida, fifth place; University of Maryland, sixth place; Elon University, seventh place; Northwestern University, eighth place-tie; Temple University, eighth place-tie; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Multimedia trophies are awarded to: University of Florida, fourth place; San Francisco State University, fifth place; Arizona State University, sixth place; University of Missouri, seventh place; Pennsylvania State University, eighth place; Northwestern University, ninth place; University of Oregon, tenth place.
Overall Intercollegiate trophies are awarded to: University of Florida, fourth place-tie; University of Missouri, fourth place-tie; Arizona State University, sixth place; Pennsylvania State University, seventh place; Indiana University, eighth place; Syracuse University, ninth place; University of Maryland, tenth place.
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program operates under the auspices of the accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. It is fully funded and administered by The William Randolph Hearst Foundation. Currently, 106 accredited undergraduate schools of journalism in the United States are eligible to participate in the program, which awards up to $500,000 in scholarships and grants annually. The Intercollegiate Awards have been acknowledged since the inception of the program, and in 1990 monetary awards were added to the Hearst Journalism Awards Program budget.
The points earned by individual students in the monthly writing, photojournalism, radio, television and multimedia competitions determine each discipline’s Intercollegiate ranking. The winners are those schools with the highest accumulated student points in each category. The overall Intercollegiate winners are the schools with the highest accumulated student points in the writing, photojournalism, broadcast and multimedia competitions.
Publisher William Randolph Hearst established the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and The Hearst Foundation, Inc. in the 1940’s, a few years before his death in 1951. Since then, the Foundations have awarded over one billion dollars in grants and programs.
