A compete multimedia entry consists of the following:

• A completed official Hearst Multimedia entry blank, signed by entrant and journalism administrator and a Hearst Multimedia Disclosure Form. Both forms can be sent via regular mail, or faxed to 415-243-0760, or scanned as a PDF and attached in an email to photoawards@hearstfdn.org.
• The entry's specific URL must be submitted via email to photoawards@hearstfdn.org. Please include entrant name, school name, Web site name, posting date, title of project and URL of project in the body of the email. Please make your subject line: Hearst Multimedia Entry, university name, entrant name.
• If the multimedia entry was posted on a professional Web site outside of school, a statement from the Web site's editor must accompany the entry to verify the central participation of the entered journalist in all facets of the entry. This statement may be emailed, faxed or sent via regular mail.

All entries submitted must have been produced and posted on the web between January 1, 2009 and April 20, 2010. A multimedia project is defined as a single piece of journalism executed essentially by the same journalist. Entries can be hard or soft news projects; they can be based on but are not limited to public affairs, business, science or sports. Entries must be journalism, and may not include dramatization. Each entry must have been posted on the Web and the entrant must have completed at least three of the following components: print, audio, video, still photography and graphics. The principal journalist may have received technical assistance from other undergraduate students (for example: camera persons, designers, programmers), but the department administrator must verify the central participation of the entered journalist in all facets of the entry. An entry cannot be a blog and cannot be a Web page of a professor, a class or a student. It must be a functioning Web site for an ACEJMC-accredited program, a school publication, television or radio station, or professional entity.

One project per entrant may be submitted.

If the project is not "live" the entry may be submitted on a disk.

No components of a multimedia entry may have been submitted in the writing, photojournalism or broadcast news competitions.

An entry may be submitted only once.

DEADLINE: Tuesday, April 27, 2010.

*Note: There is no Championship component for the Multimedia Competition.

Requirements:

The work will be judged on its essential journalistic values, but also will be judged on how creatively, coherently and appropriately it took advantage of the special characteristics of multiple platforms, such as: adding extended background links or animated graphics; posting still photographs; downloading podcasts that supplement the story; or providing video that enhances and creates stronger user interest for the story.

Judging

Multimedia entries will be evaluated on the following points:

• Visual story telling
• Writing
• Reporting
• Photography
• Audio and video
• Graphics
• Versatility
• Human interest
• News value
• Originality
• Editing
• Navigation and Structure
• Design