HEARST 
JOURNALISM  AWARDS  PROGRAM

                                                                                                                                                         
HEARST  BROADCAST  JOURNALISM  FINALISTS  NAME

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the student radio and television broadcast finalists of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program Broadcast Competition.  The category for Competition II was News.

The top five winners in both radio and television, along with the top five finalists from both categories in the Features Competition, will submit additional tapes for the semi-final round of judging.  Following that round of judging, five finalists in radio and five in television will be chosen to compete in the program's National Broadcast News Championships in San Francisco, along with winners in the writing and photojournalism competitions.
       
            The top five radio finalists, qualifying for the semi-finals are:
            First Place, $2,000 award,  DAVID  KLATT,  Pennsylvania State University
            Second Place, $1,500 award,  DANIELLE  WOOD,  Brigham Young University
            Third Place, $1,000 award,  MARTHA  CASTANEDA, Arizona State University
            Fourth Place, $750 award,  JEREMY  L.  POND,  Abilene Christian University
            Fifth Place, $600 award,  BENJAMIN  STEWART,  Northwestern University

            The top five television finalists, qualifying for the semi-finals are:
            First Place, $2,000 award,  McKENZIE  L.  YORK,  Western Kentucky University
            Second Place, $1,500 award,  AMANDA  GOODMAN,  Arizona State University
            Third Place, $1,000 award,  RYAN  FAMULINER,   University of Missouri
            Fourth Place, $750 award,  JOY  HOWE,  University of South Carolina
            Fifth Place, $600 award,  PAUL  J.  GESSLER,  Marshall University

        The following is the list of additional award winners in radio.  The schools of the top ten award winning finalists receive matching grants.

            Sixth Place, $500 award, MOLLY  O’BRIEN,  Arizona State University
            Seventh Place, $500 award, MATTHEW  PAPAYCIK,  Pennsylvania  State University
            Eighth Place, $500 award, ADAM  W.  RHEW,  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
            Ninth Place, $500 award,  LENA  CABRERA,  University of Florida
            Tenth Place, $500 award,  MARK  OLEXIK,  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

           
        These students placed among the top 20 in radio and will receive award certificates:

            K’LYNN  SLOAN,  University of Montana, eleventh place
            JENNIFER  BORGET,  Brigham Young University, twelfth place
            MICHAEL  LOPARDI,  Syracuse University, thirteenth place
            JESSICA  N.  LARCHE’,  Florida A&M University, fourteenth place-tie
            SEAN  POWERS,  University of Missouri, fourteenth place-tie
            ALLISON  VINCENT,  Western Kentucky University, fourteenth place-tie
            LORILEE  VICTORINO,  University of Florida, seventeenth place
            SARA  CARMICHAEL,  Syracuse University, eighteenth place
            KARLA  K.  LEVEGUE,  University of Louisiana at Lafayette, nineteenth place
            MATTHEW  SHORTIS,  Hofstra University, twentieth place

 
        The following is the list of additional award winners in television.  The schools of the top ten award winning finalists receive matching grants.

            Sixth Place, $500 award,  ADRIAN  WHITSETT,  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
            Seventh Place, $500 award,  LAYRON  LIVINGSTON,  University of Texas, Austin
            Eighth Place, $500 award, JASON  DUNNING,  University of Florida
            Ninth Place, $500 award, MEGHAN  PACKER,  Elon University
            Tenth Place, $500 award, HEIDI  ZHOU,  Northwestern University

            These students placed among the top 20 in television and will receive award certificates:

            RYAN  KRUGER,  University of Missouri, eleventh place
            JACKIE  CAIN,  West Virginia University, twelfth place
            ALEXANDREA  DENIS,  University of South Florida, thirteenth place
            WHITNEY  GIVENS,  University of Iowa, fourteenth place
            ALEXANDRA  VILLARREAL,  U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, fifteenth place-tie
            KEATON  FUCHS, University of Oklahoma, fifteenth place-tie
            THOMAS  HENDRICK,  University of Colorado, seventeenth place-tie
            HAILEY  F.  GINDLESPERGER,  Arizona State University, seventeenth place-tie
            TED  LAND,  University of Illinois, nineteenth place-tie
            JENIFFER  A.  BERRY,  Texas Christian University, nineteenth place-tie
           
 

Arizona State University placed first in the Intercollegiate Broadcast News Competition with the highest accumulated school points from Competitions I and II in radio and television.  It is followed by: Brigham Young University; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Syracuse University; University of Florida; Western Kentucky University; University of Missouri; Pennsylvania State University; University of Montana; University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

             The judges, all professionals in radio and television, are:  Felicia Middlebrooks, Morning Anchor & Correspondent, WBBM News Radio 780, Chicago, IL;  Tom Negovan, Anchor/Reporter, WGN-TV, Chicago, IL;  and Linda Sullivan, President & General Manager, KNTV, San Francisco, CA.

             The 2006 - 2007 broadcast news competitions are held in member colleges and universities of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with accredited undergraduate journalism programs.  The Broadcast News Competition was added in 1988 to the Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program that for 47 years has included writing and news photography competitions, and now offers awards totaling up to $500,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends.  For examples of winning work, please check the monthly winners section of our website, www.hearstawards.org, which is updated shortly after each competition.

Contact:       Jan C. Watten, Program Director
                     415.543.6033, ext. 308
                     jwatten@hearstfdn.org