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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 25, 2011
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| Photo by Thomas Miller |
| IU students who won awards in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program are (from left) Rachel Stark, Sarah Hutchins, Caitlin Johnston, Danielle Paquette, Caitlin Keating, Mickey Woods and CJ Lotz. Second row from left are Peter Stevenson and Sean Morrison. |
The Hearst awards are often considered the “Pulitzer Prizes of college journalism.” The IU school is celebrating 100 years of journalism education in 2011, so these awards are particularly meaningful, said Dr. Bradley J. Hamm, dean of the school.
“This year will rank as one of the most remarkable in school history for our
undergraduate journalism program,” Hamm said.
“Never before in one year has the school captured the overall Hearst national championship in writing, had IU students win two of Hearst’s six writing competitions, and had a student selected as the Indiana collegiate journalist of the year.”
The Intercollegiate Writing Competition consists of six monthly writing competitions. All nationally accredited journalism programs are eligible. Student winners receive scholarships in each of the categories during the year, and the points earned across the six categories are totaled to determine the overall university winner.
“Obviously we are so tremendously proud of the students whose stories have been honored,” said visiting Riley professor Thomas French, himself a Hearst and Pulitzer Prize winner, who worked with many of the students on their stories. “It's a testament to the depth of talent in our program that this success is based on the reporting and writing of twelve students.”
Most of the award-winning articles were written for as the Indiana Daily Student newspaper and Inside magazine. French praised the student editors who helped prepare and present the work, and student media advisers Ron Johnson and Ruth Witmer for their support.
IU students captured first place in two of the six categories. Caitlin Johnston won in the Opinion category for “The home front” a piece which ran in Inside magazine about her Marine brother’s deployment to Afghanistan. Danielle Paquette placed first in the personality/profile category for her piece titled "The shepherd's lamb" about an evangelist’s daughter.
IU students Johnston, Paquette and Caitlin Keating will fill three of the eight slots in the Hearst National Writing Championship in San Francisco in June.
Read the winning entries and related stories in our News Archive:
- Paquette wins first, IU still first in competition (March 25, 2011)
- Read Johnston's "The shepherd's lamb," the winning story
- Read CJ Lotz' "The accidental tenor"
- IU still in first, two students place in Hearst sports writing contest (Feb. 20, 2011)
- Read Sean Morrison's "Gray Goat Cycling earns own victory in 6th-place finish"
- Read Rachel Stark's "Holding Out: Stephen Haas extends his running career with leap to the marathon”
- Two place in Hearst photojournalism category (Feb. 11, 2011)
- See James Brosher's third place winner
- IU ranks first place, two students earn honors in Hearst (Feb. 2, 2011)
- Read Danielle Paquette's "Man dedicates life to saving exotic cats"
- Read Jessica Haney's "Kiss or crime?"
- Johnston, IU take top Hearst honors (Dec. 26, 2010)
- Read Caitlin Johnston's "The home front," the winning story in the opinion writing category.
- Cochran, IU place in Hearst (Dec. 7, 2010)
- Read Biz Carson's "Night Owl-A bus driver enjoys seeing variety of people during his run"
- Read Kelly Cochran's "Far too common"