HEARST

JOURNALISM  AWARDS  PROGRAM

HEARST  BROADCAST  NEWS  FINALISTS  NAMED

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the student radio and television broadcast finalists selected in the November Journalism Awards Program broadcast competition.  The category for Competition One was Features.

 
The top five winners in both radio and television were selected from among 43 radio and 65 television entries submitted.  These winners, along with the top five finalists from both categories in Competition Two, will submit additional tapes for a semi-final round of judging.  Following the semi-final round of judging, five 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 of the writing and photojournalism competitions.

 
The top five radio finalists, qualifying for the semi-finals: 

            First Place, $2,000 award,  LAUREN  BROOKMEYER,  Hofstra University

            Second Place, $1,500 award,  JULIA  L.  RITCHEY,  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

            Third Place, $1,000 award,  KIMBERLY J. SALTMARSH,  Hofstra University

            Fourth Place, $750 award,  BRIAN  HARDZINSKI,  University of Oklahoma

            Fifth Place, $600 award,  MILES  DORAN,  University of Florida

 
The top six television * finalists, qualifying for the semi-finals: 

            First Place, $2,000 award,  THOMAS  HENDRICK,  University of Colorado

            Second Place, $1,500 award,  ADAM  J.  MILLER,  Northwestern University

            Third Place, $1,000 award,  JASON  LAMB,  University of Missouri

            Fourth Place, $1,000 award,  JUSTIN  M.  WEAVER,  West Virginia University

            Fifth Place, $600 award,  ELEXANDER  MICHAELSON,  University of Southern California

            Sixth Place, $500 award,  BRITTANY  JONES-COOPER, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

* The fourth place winner in the TV competition, Justin Weaver, is a Spring 2007 graduate, and consequently is not eligible to participate in the championship round, as pursuant to the program guidelines.  As a result, the sixth place winner qualifies for the semi-final judging.                                                                  

 
            Other award winners in radio:

            Sixth Place, $500 award,  BENJAMIN  B.  YOUNGERMAN,  Syracuse University

            Seventh Place, $500 award,  DAVID  KLATT,  Pennsylvania State University

            Eighth Place, $500 award,  NATALIE  NEUMANN,  University of Montana

            Ninth Place, $500 award,  LISA  MATUSKA,  Northwestern University

            Tenth Place, $500 award,  ADAM  SWANK,  Texas State University, San Marcos

 
            Other award winners in television:

 
            Seventh Place, $500 award,  IRMA  MURILLO,  University of Miami

            Eighth Place, $500 award,  ASHLEY  REYNOLDS  DICKAMORE,  University of Utah

            Ninth Place, $500 award,  MELISSA  WELSH,  University of Florida

            Tenth Place, $500 award,  JAMES  EVERETTS,  Kent State University

 
The schools of these award winning finalists receive matching grants.

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

            ERIC  SCHAFFER,  University of Maryland, eleventh place

            SEAN  POWERS,  University of Missouri, twelfth place

            ADAM CAVALIER,  Marshall University, thirteenth place

            KIMBERLY  BURCHAM,  Marshall University, fourteenth place-tie

            SAM  GAVIN,  Arizona State University, fourteenth place-tie

            DAN  BOYCE, University of Montana, fourteenth place-tie

            CRYSTAL  GRANDISON,  Elon University, seventeenth place-tie

            TRAVIS  LARCHUK,  Pennsylvania State University, seventeenth place-tie

            NATALIE  WILSON,  Howard University, nineteenth place

            ADAM  SHIVERS,  University of Alabama, twentieth place-tie

            MEGAN  BOWERS,  West Virginia University, twentieth place-tie      

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

            STEVE  BUTERA,  West Virginia  University, eleventh place

            PHILLIP  ANAYA-DENNIS,  New Mexico State University, twelfth place

            SARAH  E.  CHAKALES,  University of Southern Carolina, thirteenth place

            MELISSA  PAZORNIK,  University of Southern California, fourteenth place

            THERESA  BOWMAN,  Northwestern University, fifteenth place

            ANDREW  BOYLE,  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sixteenth place

            MARK  OLEXIK,  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, seventeenth place

            ERIN  MAHRER,  University of Colorado, eighteenth place-tie

            ALEXANDREA  DENIS,  University of South Florida, eighteenth place-tie

            MARCO  VILLARREAL,  Brigham Young University, twentieth place-tie

Northwestern  University placed first in the Intercollegiate Broadcast News Competition with the highest accumulated student points from the first radio and television competitions.  It is followed by: Hofstra University; West Virginia University; University of Missouri; University of Florida; University of Colorado; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Southern California; Syracuse University; University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The final winners (the top three of whom will collect $10,000, $5,000, and $2,500 respectively) will be named in April following Competition Two/News.

 
The judges, all professionals in radio and television, are:  Fred Young, Senior Vice President of News, Hearst-Argyle Television, New York, NY;  Barbara Cochran, President, RTNDA, Washington, DC;  and Michael  Luckoff, President and General Manager, KGO AM Radio, Inc., San Francisco, CA.

 
The 2007-2008 broadcast news competitions are held in 108 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 48 years has included writing, photojournalism, and multimedia, and now offers awards totaling up to $500,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends.

Contact:          Jan C. Watten, Program Director
                        415.908.4560
                        jwatten@hearstfdn.org