UNC broadcast students honored in Hearst competition

Carolina J-school junior Michael Tomsic of Wilmington, N.C., placed second in the radio broadcast competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards.

He earns a $2,000 award and qualifies for the national broadcast news championship competition in June 2011.

Reema Khrais,  a junior from Chapel Hill, placed sixth in the competition.

The Hearst broadcast news competitions are held in 110 member colleges and universities of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with accredited undergraduate journalism programs. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln placed first overall in the Intercollegiate Broadcast News Competition. UNC placed fifth.