J-school senior takes first in Hearst TV category

Landon Dowdy, a senior broadcast and electronic journalism student at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, won first place in the second and final 2013-14 Hearst Journalism Awards television broadcast news competition. 

Dowdy will receive a $2,600 award for her story about 911 tapes surrounding the death of a student.

She will submit additional work for judging to become one of five television finalists to participate in the 2014 national championship in Washington, D.C., along with the radio, writing, photojournalism and multimedia finalists. 

The school finished third in the Hearst Intercollegiate Broadcast Competition with accumulated points from radio and television competitions. In 2013, the school finished first in the category.

UNC is the only school in the nation to have finished top 5 overall in the Hearst Journalism Awards the past 10 years.