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IU’s Brian Spegele won sixth place in college feature writing and a $500 scholarship in the 49th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program.

The Hearst Journalism Awards Program awards six writing, three photojournalism, four broadcast news competitions and one multimedia competition monthly. Next June, monthly winners in each category participate in the National Championships. The program awards more than $550,000 in scholarships and grants annually.

A record 138 students from 78 universities and colleges participated in the program’s first competition of this academic year. Samples of winning work can be viewed in the winners section of the Web site.