May 15, 2008
Bowling
Green, Ky. - For the 15th consecutive year, Western Kentucky University’s School of Journalism and Broadcasting has finished among the top eight schools nationally in the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
WKU placed seventh in the 2007-08 Hearst competition, continuing a tradition that began in 1993. WKU won the overall championship in 2005, 2001 and 2000.
Often called the “Pulitzers of College Journalism,” the Hearst program holds yearlong competitions in writing, photojournalism, broadcast news and multimedia with championship finals in all divisions except multimedia. The program awards more than $500,000 in scholarships and grants annually.
The top 10 in the 2007-08 overall intercollegiate competition, which is the accumulation of points from all four divisions, is as follows: Missouri, Florida, North Carolina, Penn State, Northwestern, Nebraska, WKU, Syracuse, Arizona State and Kansas.
WKU has won the Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition 16 times in the past 19 years, including a second-place finish this year. WKU finished second this year in the Hearst program’s inaugural multimedia competition.
Three WKU photojournalism students are among 12 semifinalists for the Hearst national championship. Jeff Giraldo, a December graduate from LaGrange, Ill., Philip Andrews, a junior from Annandale, Va., and Aaron Borton, a Crestwood senior, will submit additional photos for judging with six finalists selected for the National Photojournalism Championships June 1-6 in San Francisco.
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program is conducted under the auspices of accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, and fully funded and administered by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. For more on the Hearst program, visit http://www.hearstfdn.org/hearst_journalism/index.php
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For information, contact School of Journalism and Broadcasting at (270) 745-4143.
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