SAN FRANCISCO – This year’s winners of the Intercollegiate Writing, Photojournalism, Audio and Television and Multimedia Competitions of the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program share $95,000 in awards. These awards will be presented at the Intercollegiate Awards Presentation during the National Hearst Championship in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 6.
The 2022-2023 prizes are awarded to the top 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, audio, television and multimedia for journalism undergraduates. The points earned by individual students in these monthly 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 from the 1,304 entries submitted this year in the writing, photojournalism, audio, television and multimedia competitions.
The 2023 Intercollegiate Competition winners are:
INTERCOLLEGIATE WRITING
$10,000 First Place, Pennsylvania State University
$4,000 Second Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$2,000 Third Place, Indiana University
INTERCOLLEGIATE PHOTOJOURNALISM
$10,000 First Place, Western Kentucky University
$4,000 Second Place, University of Iowa
$2,000 Third Place, University of Oregon
INTERCOLLEGIATE AUDIO & TELEVISION
$10,000 First Place, University of Missouri
$4,000 Second Place, Syracuse University
$2,000 Third Place, University of Florida
INTERCOLLEGIATE MULTIMEDIA
$10,000 First Place – tie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$10,000 First Place – tie, Western Kentucky University
$2,000 Third Place, University of Florida
INTERCOLLEGIATE OVERALL
$25,000 First Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Second Place, University of Florida
Third Place, Western Kentucky University
Intercollegiate Writing trophies are awarded to: University of Florida, fourth place; University of Missouri, fifth place; University of Montana, sixth place; Arizona State University, seventh place; University of Iowa, eighth place; University of Maryland, ninth place; Ball State University, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Photojournalism trophies are awarded to: Michigan State University, fourth place; Ohio University, fifth place; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sixth place; University of Florida, seventh place; Pennsylvania State University, eight place; Elon University, ninth place; University of Montana, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Audio and Television trophies are awarded to: University of Oklahoma, fourth place; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, fifth place; Arizona State University, sixth place; Pennsylvania State University, seventh place; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, eighth place; Hofstra University, ninth place; University of South Carolina, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Multimedia trophies are awarded to: University of Southern California, fourth place; Syracuse University, fifth place; University of Missouri, sixth place; Pennsylvania State University, seventh place; San Francisco State University, eighth place; Brigham Young University, ninth place-tie; Florida International University, ninth place-tie.
Intercollegiate Overall trophies are awarded to:
University of Missouri, fourth place; Pennsylvania State University, fifth place; Syracuse University, sixth place; Arizona State University, seventh place; University of Montana, eighth place; Indiana University, ninth place; University of Iowa, 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. Presently, 105 colleges and universities with accredited undergraduate journalism schools are eligible to participate in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. Funded and administered for 63 years by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Journalism Program awards up to $700,000 in scholarships, grants and stipends 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.
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.
