by Molly Roe
Alli Davis, a junior journalism and ADPR major at the CoJMC, won eighth place and a certificate of merit in the Personality/Profile Writing Competition of the 2018-2019 Hearst Journalism Awards Program. There were 118 entries from 68 schools submitted nationwide.
Her project, which tells the story of Maysaa Khalaf, a Yazidi refugee living in Lincoln, can be found at https://nebraskamosaic.atavist.com/a-fathers-love-now-and-forever.
Indiana University placed first in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition with the highest accumulated student points in the first four writing competitions of the year. They are followed by: Arizona State University; Pennsylvania State University; University of Maryland; University of Oregon; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Kentucky (tie); University of Nebraska-Lincoln (tie); University of Florida; Auburn University.
The final intercollegiate writing winners will be announced after the completion of the five writing competitions and presented at the Intercollegiate Awards Presentation in San Francisco this June.
Judging the writing competitions this year are: Audrey Cooper, editor in chief, The San Francisco Chronicle; Dwayne Bray, senior coordinating producer/enterprise reporting unit, ESPN; and David Zeeck, former president and publisher, The News Tribune, Washington.
The Journalism Awards Program, now in its 59th year, added multimedia to the competitions in 2010. The program also includes five writing, one radio, two television and two photojournalism competitions offering up to $700,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends. 104 member universities of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with accredited undergraduate journalism programs are eligible to participate in the Hearst competitions.
