Journalism students paced ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ in a prestigious national contest open to college students from more than 100 schools accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Journalism students spurred ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s School of Communications to a Top 20 national finish in the 2014-15 Hearst Journalism Awards Program, which offers competitions in writing, photojournalism, broadcast news and multimedia.
The competition is open to college students from more than 100 schools accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. Student work is reviewed by professionals and awarded points by each of three judges in every individual competition.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ placed 19th nationwide and fourth among private universities, trailing only Syracuse (7th), Northwestern (10th) and Southern California (16th). ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s highest category finish was 12th in the series of national writing competitions.
Following are the students who finished in the top 20 of individual competitions:
- Kate Murphy ’15 placed fourth in the Enterprise Reporting competition for which she produced for the . Murphy also placed 19th in the Sports Writing competition for
- Tommy Hamzik ’17 placed 18th in Sports Writing for
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ was 14th overall in the 2013-14 competition and 21st the year before. In 2009, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s in the Hearst National Television Broadcast News Championship.
In the 2014-15 competition, the national winner was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.