Stiles places third in Hearst Editorial competition

Andrew Stiles, a senior in the school, won third place and $1,000 scholarship in the Editorial writing competition in the 49th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program.

Stiles’ editorial, “Small. Ignorant. Cowards.,” was published in The Daily Tar Heel on Nov. 16.

More than 100 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation are eligible to participate in the Hearst awards, which are considered “student Pulitzers.”
 
In the Intercollegiate Writing Competition, the school is currently in fifth place. The final winners will be named in April following the final writing competition.