Eight universities shared prizes totaling $89,000 as this year’s winners of the Intercollegiate Writing, Photojournalism, Broadcast and Multimedia Competitions of the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
The 2018-2019 prizes are awarded to the top universities in each division of the Intercollegiate Competitions, with the top 10 of each category receiving Hearst trophies.
The CoJMC received third place in the Multimedia category and a $2,000 prize. In addition, the CoJMC tied with the University of Kentucky for 10th place in the Intercollegiate Writing category and received eighth place in the Intercollegiate Photojournalism categories. Overall, the CoJMC won sixth place in the Intercollegiate awards.
Often called “The Pulitzers of college journalism,” the Hearst program holds year-long competitions in writing, photojournalism, radio, television 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 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 from the 1,351 entries submitted this year in all competitions.
The 2019 Intercollegiate Competition winners are:
WRITING:
$10,000 First Place, Indiana University
$ 4,000 Second Place, Pennsylvania State University
$ 2,000 Third Place, Arizona 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, Ohio University
BROADCAST RADIO & TV:
$10,000 First Place, University of Florida
$ 4,000 Second Place, Arizona State University
$ 2,000 Third Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MULTIMEDIA:
$10,000 First Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
$ 4,000 Second Place, Western Kentucky University
$ 2,000 Third Place, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
OVERALL:
$25,000 First Place, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Second Place, Arizona State University
Third Place, Pennsylvania State University
The winners in each category received cash prizes and trophies during the National Championships Intercollegiate Awards ceremony in San Francisco on June 4.
Intercollegiate Writing trophies were awarded to University of Maryland, fourth place; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, fifth place; University of Oregon, sixth place; University of Oklahoma, seventh place; Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, eighth place; Michigan State University, ninth place; University of Kentucky, 10th place-tie; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, tenth place-tie.
Intercollegiate Photojournalism trophies were awarded to: San Francisco State University, fourth place; University of Iowa, fifth place; Arizona State University, sixth place; Ball State University, seventh place; University of Nebraska – Lincoln, eighth place; University of Oregon, ninth place; University of Kentucky, tenth place.
Intercollegiate Broadcast Radio & TV trophies were awarded to: University of Missouri, fourth place; Pennsylvania State University, fifth place; Syracuse University, sixth place; University of Maryland, seventh place; University of Texas at Austin, eighth place; Elon University, ninth place; University of Nevada, Reno, 10th place.
Intercollegiate Multimedia trophies were awarded to: Arizona State University, fourth place; University of Florida, fifth place; Pennsylvania State University, sixth place; University of Montana, seventh place; Temple University, eighth place; University of Missouri, ninth place; University of South Carolina, 10th place.
Overall Intercollegiate trophies were awarded to: University of Florida, fourth place; Western Kentucky University, fifth place; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sixth place; University of Missouri, seventh place; Indiana University, eighth place; University of Maryland, ninth place; University of Montana, 10th 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, 104 accredited undergraduate schools of journalism in the United States are eligible to participate in the program, which awards up to $700,000 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.
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.
