HEARST  JOURNALISM  AWARDS  PROGRAM

NEWS  RELEASE

NATION'S  JOURNALISM  SCHOOLS  WIN  $52,500  IN  HEARST  PRIZES

            SAN FRANCISCO – Eight universities shared prizes totaling $52,500 as this year's winners in the Intercollegiate Writing, Photography and Broadcast News Competitions of the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

            The 2007-2008 prizes of $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 are awarded to the top three colleges and universities in each division of the Intercollegiate Competitions, with the top ten of each category receiving Hearst medallions.  These awards were added to the Hearst Journalism Awards Program budget in 1990.

            Often called "The Pulitzers of College Journalism," the Hearst program holds year-long competitions in writing, photography and broadcast news for journalism undergraduates.  A new Multimedia Competition was added to the program this year.  Journalism schools accumulating the most points earned by their students in each category are designated the winners.

            The 2008 Intercollegiate Competition winners are:

WRITING:

$10,000         First Place                UNIVERSITY  OF  KANSAS
$ 5,000          Second Place           NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY
$ 2,500          Third Place                UNIVERSITY  OF MISSOURI

PHOTOJOURNALISM:

$10,000        First Place                UNIVERSITY  OF  MISSOURI
$ 5,000         Second Place           WESTERN  KENTUCKY  UNIVERSITY
$ 2,500         Third Place                SAN  FRANCISCO  STATE  UNIVERSITY 

BROADCAST  NEWS:

$10,000        First Place                UNIVERSITY  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL
$ 5,000         Second Place           SYRACUSE  UNIVERSITY
$ 2,500         Third Place                PENNSYLVANIA  STATE  UNIVERSITY 

            The winners in each category will receive cash prizes and medallions during the National Championships in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 4, 2008.

            In the OVERALL  INTERCOLLEGIATE  COMPETITION, which is the accumulation of points from all four divisions, including the new multimedia competition, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI scored the highest.  It is followed by:  UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Second Place;  UNIVERSITY  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA,  CHAPEL  HILL, Third Place;  PENNSYLAVANIA  STATE  UNIVERSITY, Fourth Place; NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY, Fifth Place; UNIVERSITY  OF  NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, Sixth Place;  WESTERN  KENTUCKY  UNIVERSITY, Seventh Place;  SYRACUSE  UNIVERSITY, Eighth Place;  ARIZONA  STATE  UNIVERSITY, Ninth Place;  UNIVERSITY  OF  KANSAS, Tenth Place.

Writing medallions are awarded to:  PENNSYLVANIA  STATE  UNIVERSITY, Fourth Place;  UNIVERSITY  OF  NEBRASKA-LINCOLN, Fifth Place;  UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Sixth Place;  UNIVERSITY  OF  MONTANA, Seventh Place;  UNIVERSITY  OF  IOWA, Eighth Place;  INDIANA UNIVERSITY, Ninth Place;  LOUISIANA STATE  UNIVERSITY, Tenth Place.

Photojournalism medallions are awarded to:  UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Fourth Place;  UNIVERSITY  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA, CHAPEL  HILL, Fifth Place;  BALL  STATE  UNIVERSITY, Sixth Place;  UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, Seventh Place; UNIVERSITY  OF  KENTUCKY, Eighth Place;  IOWA  STATE UNIVERSITY, Ninth Place; CENTRAL  MICHIGAN  UNIVERSITY, Tenth Place.

Broadcast News medallions are awarded to:  UNIVERSITY  OF  MISSOURI, Fourth Place;  HOFSTRA  UNIVERSITY, Fifth Place;  ARIZONA  STATE  UNIVERSITY, Sixth Place;  NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY, Seventh Place;  UNIVERSITY  OF  FLORIDA, Eighth Place;  BRIGHAM  YOUNG  UNIVERSITY, Ninth Place;  WEST  VIRGINIA  UNIVERSITY, Tenth 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, 108 accredited undergraduate schools of journalism in the are eligible to participate in the program, which awards more than $550,000 in scholarships and grants annually.

            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 more than $700 million in grants and programs.

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Contact:     Jan Watten, Program Director
                    415-908-4561
                    jwatten@hearstfdn.org