November 19, 2002
WKU Senior Wins Hearst
Feature Writing Contest
Bowling Green, Ky. - A Western Kentucky University student has won the first writing competition in the 43rd annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
Ryan Clark, a Louisville senior, won the feature writing competition and received a $2,000 scholarship. He also qualified for the National Writing Championship next June in San Francisco.
Western's School of Journalism and Broadcasting received a matching $2,000 award.
Clark's winning entry was a golf story called "The chase for an ace" that he wrote this summer during an internship at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Clark, who will graduate in December, has accepted a spring internship in the sports department at The Orlando Sentinel.
Western leads the Intercollegiate Writing Competition after the first of six contests followed by Montana, Kentucky, Iowa and Illinois.
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program consists of six writing, three photojournalism and four broadcast news competitions. In the past three years, Western has won the overall intercollegiate title twice and finished second once.
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