Rosemary Pennington | Oct. 17, 2007
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| Photo by Chris Pickrell |
| Junior Audrie Garrison (in red) is co-managing editor at the IDS this semester, a job that requires collaboration with others such as Weekend editor and senior Andrea Alumbaugh. |
“I was really happy,” Garrison said. “I wasn’t really sure how I was going to pay for this year and so winning this award was a big relief.”
The scholarship comes with $10,000 in prize money to each of 10 winners from around the country. Dean Bradley Hamm said Garrison was an obvious choice to represent IU.
“To win a national award, you need to have national credentials,” Hamm said. “And Audrie had won two national awards previously. I’m sure those credentials helped her win this award.”
Those credentials include the Roy Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition, also sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation, which she won as a freshman, as well as a Pulliam Fellowship that took Garrison to the Arizona Republic newspaper last summer for an internship.
Garrison doesn’t seem to be letting the awards go to her head. She’s busy most days with classes and with her many duties as managing editor of the Indiana Daily Student.
As her experience at the Shelbyville (Ind.) News, where she worked while still in high school, her newspaper experience at the IDS and Arizona Republic attest, she prefers hard news.
“I like that’s it’s different every day. You get an immediate impact from reporting straight news,” said Garrison. “And, it’s something I’m good at.”
Garrison is the second School of Journalism student to win a Top Ten Scholarship in the last three years and Hamm said he hopes the trend continues.
“I believe the Scripps Howard Scholarship is one of the best in the nation,” Hamm said. “We would love to have a winner every year.”
Garrison said she hopes her experience at IU, and the awards she’s won, will help her get a job at a newspaper or wire service after she graduates.
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