Mass communication junior Allison Kadlubar received recognition in the Television Features Competition of the 2020-2021 Hearst Journalism Awards Program and placed among the top 20 winners in the national competition between 60 universities.
The competition required participants to submit two stories in order to compete, Kadlubar said. She said she appreciated the opportunity to have more than one of her stories receive recognition.
âI do put in a lot of hard work as a broadcast journalist,â Kadlubar said. âTo know all that hard work and those techniques and the details I was applying was working. I was being noticed, and it was very nice.â
WKU News
Friday, March 12th, 2021
WKU’s School of Media has won the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition for the fifth straight year and the 27
th time in the past 32 years.
With second-place and third-place finishers in the Photojournalism Picture Story/Series Competition and first-place and third-place finishers in the Photojournalism Features and News Competition, WKU had the highest accumulated student points in the 2020-2021 photo competition. WKU’s School of Media will receive a $10,000 award.
The top 10 finishers in the 2020-2021 Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition are
WKU; Ohio University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Montana; University of Kentucky; Ball State University (tie); Pennsylvania State University (tie); University of Oregon; University of Florida; Syracuse University.
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Students win Hearst Journalism awards
Posted By: News Editor
March 4, 2021
Levi Brandenburg
Two Murray State students entered and placed in the 2020-2021 Hearst Journalism Awards Program.
The program is a collection of 14 competitions for journalism undergraduate students. There are five writing, two photojournalism, one audio, two television and four multimedia competitions each year, having to consist of already broadcast materials.
Piper Cassetto, senior television production major, won fifth place and a $1,000 scholarship in the Hearst Media TV Features competition. She entered “Pony Up,” a two-part video series that follows the Murray State Racer Girls on their journey to the Fall 2020 OVC Tournament.
Bryan Greene, 25, and Lakell Gates, 11, play basketball on the court in Duncan Park in Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. Photo by Arden Barnes, courtesy of Kentucky Kernel.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 16, 2021) May 2020 journalism graduate and former Kentucky Kernel editor-in-chief Bailey Vandiver placed fourth in the Explanatory Reporting Competition of the 2020-2021 Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program. In addition to being recognized among top journalists in the nation, Vandiver has received a $1,000 scholarship.
Vandiver’s story, titled “Lexington’s East End: A changing neighborhood,” encompasses the lives of the citizens of Lexington’s East End and how they envision the future of their home. Vandiver specifically wanted to collect the stories from the historically Black neighborhood to open a discussion on the effects of revitalization and gentrification to the neighborhood.