UNC places second in Hearst Journalism Awards

The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media finished second overall — and first in broadcast — in the Intercollegiate Competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards, often called the Pulitzers of college journalism. 

Six May 2013 graduates also will compete in the Hearst individual national championships from June 3-7 in San Francisco. Melissa Abbey (writing), Kathryn Carlson (multimedia), Averi Harper (television broadcast), Michael Rodriguez (radio broadcast), Carolyn Van Houten (photojournalism) and Julia Wall (multimedia) will demonstrate their skills in on-the-spot assignments to win additional awards.

The school's overall second-place finish resulted from students placing in monthly writing, photojournalism, broadcast and multimedia competitions during the 2012-13 school year. In addition to placing first in broadcast, the school placed second in multimedia, fourth in photojournalism and 10th in writing. 

The school will receive $10,000 for winning first place in the broadcast competition and $4,000 for the second-place finish in multimedia.

The school finished third overall in 2011-12 and before that won back-to-back national championships. Hussman School student Jon Kasbe won the individual national championship in multimedia last year.

Students placing in this academic year’s Hearst monthly competitions include:

• Melissa Abbey, first place, feature writing
• Kathryn Carlson, third place, narrative multimedia storytelling – features
• Averi Harper, first place, television news
• Grace Joyal, sixth place, radio news and features
• Carter McCall, seventh place, multimedia enterprise reporting
• Michael Rodriguez, fifth place, radio news and features
• Allison Russell, seventh place, multimedia news
• Julysa Sosa, second place, photojournalism picture story/series
• Carolyn Van Houten, first place, photojournalism picture story/series
• Julia Wall, second place, multimedia news