UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media wins the 2021 Hearst national championships unc.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from unc.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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MANSFIELD - The rural graveyards Eric Boll would pass during his boyhood helped earn him a journalism award this spring after the Ohio University student reported on their upkeep. It definitely made me more confident in my reporting, the sophomore from Lexington said after placing among the top 20 in the Multimedia Innovative Storytelling category of the Hearst Journalism Awards.
His article, The Forgotten Cemeteries of Richland County, was published Nov. 24, 2020, by WOUB Public Media, which touts itself as being an experiential-learning unit of Ohio University s Scripps College of Communication.
The Hearst Journalism Awards were created in 1960 to provide support, encouragement and assistance to journalism programs and students at the university level, according to a news release from Ohio University. Winners of the competition receive scholarships as well as grants for the university they are representing.
A journalist who died last week in Kansas City was a Springfield native who graduated from Central High School.
Aviva Okeson-Haberman, 24, died after she was hit by a stray bullet inside her Kansas City apartment complex, according to an article from public radio station KCUR where Okeson-Haberman worked.
KCUR says Okeson-Haberman was set to begin a new job covering social issues and criminal justice for the Kansas News Service. She had previously reported on Missouri government for the radio station. Aviva was brilliant, KCUR news director Lisa Rodriguez said in the article. Even as an intern, her approach to storytelling and her ability to hold those in power accountable paralleled many a veteran reporter. She was quiet, which made it all the more satisfying to hear her challenge politicians and hold her ground, even when people in positions of great power tried to belittle her.
Senior Tommy Valentine places in top 20 of Hearst’s national television news competition Apr 04, 2021 |
St. Bonaventure University senior sports media major Thomas “Tommy” Valentine has been recognized for his broadcasting skills by placing in the top 20 of the 2020-21 William Randolph Hearst Foundation Television News Competition.
The winners were selected from 77 entries submitted from 48 schools nationwide in the second television competition of this academic year. The Hearst TV2 news competition was loaded with applicants from some of the top academic journalism programs in the nation.
“To be included in the conversation with students from Arizona State, Syracuse University and the University of Florida, and know that my work stacked up against theirs was a tremendous honor. I’m proud I was able to provide St. Bonaventure and the Jandoli School the recognition it deserves,” Valentine said.
OHIO alumna receives recognition through Hearst Audio Competition ohio.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ohio.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.