HEARST  JOURNALISM  AWARDS  PROGRAM

NEWS RELEASE                                                                                

HEARST  NATIONAL  PHOTOJOURNALISM  SEMI-FINALISTS  ANNOUNCED

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has announced the fourteen college photojournalism students who have been selected as semi-finalists in the annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program.  They are the top four winners in the three photo competitions and two finalists with the highest scores earned from placement in two competitions:

                        JOHN  W.  ADKISSON,  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

                        BRYAN  J.  ANSELM,  Western Kentucky University

                        LANE  CHRISTIANSEN, University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale

                        LAUREN  COWART,  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

                        COURTNEY  DUDLEY,  University of Texas, Austin

                        BRIAN  L.  FRANK,  San Francisco State University

                        JONATHAN  GOERING,  University of Kansas

                        TIM  HUSSIN,  University of Florida

                        JASON  JOHNSON,  University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale

                        CARL  KIILSGAARD,  Western Kentucky University

                        STEPHEN  MATUREN,  University of Minnesota

                        JAKE  STEVENS,  Western Kentucky University

                        NICOLE  TUNG,  New York University

                        CHEN  WANG,  University of Florida

These fourteen winners will submit additional photos for the semi-final round of judging.  On June 1, the judges will select six finalists to compete in the program's National Photojournalism Championships.  The finalists arrive in San Francisco the next day to compete for additional awards of up to $5,000 in the National Championships, held June 2 - 7, 2009.  In addition to the 6 photo finalists, there will be writing and broadcast news finalists competing at the Championship.

The photojournalism judges are:  Janet Reeves, Senior Editor/Photography and Multimedia, The Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado; Ken Geiger, Senior Editor, National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D.C.; Michael C. Norseng, Photo editor, Esquire Magazine, New York, NY.

There are 110 universities with accredited undergraduate journalism schools eligible to participate in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.  The Journalism Awards Program, now in its 49^th year, added photojournalism to the competition in 1970, and is funded and administered by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.  The program awards up to $550,000 a year in scholarships, grants and stipends, and is under the auspices of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.  

Contact: Jan C. Watten, Program Director

415.908.4560

jwatten@hearstfdn.org

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