J-school junior wins collegiate reporting prize trip to Japan

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media junior Madeline Will was named one of nine winners of the Scripps Howard Foundation’s annual Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.

She wins a nine-day journalism study trip to Japan.

Will, a political science double major from Huntersville, N.C., has written for The Daily Tar Heel, including a year as assistant state and national editor. She has interned for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and The Charlotte Observer. She will intern for Reuters in New York this summer.

The nine winners, whose entries represent print, broadcast and online media, were chosen for the high quality of their work, an essay about their interest in international affairs and letters of recommendation.

The competition, established in 1984 in cooperation with the Indiana University School of Journalism, honors the memory of the journalist who led Scripps Howard Newspapers from 1922?1953 and United Press International from 1912?1920.

The prize responds to the need for today’s student journalists to better understand international affairs, said Mike Philipps, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Foundation.

The expenses?paid trip will be led by IU School of Journalism Roy W. Howard Professor of Practice Joseph Coleman, who has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at IU since 2009. He is the former Associated Press bureau chief in Tokyo and leads IU journalism students on a reporting trip to Tokyo and Hiroshima every spring.

Travel begins May 23 and includes excursions primarily in the Kansai region cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe. Included in the trip is a visit to Tokyo and Hiroshima, the first city in world history to be devastated by an atomic bomb, and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Park.