WKU’s School of Media continued its tradition of success in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program with a third-place finish in the 2022-2023 Overall Intercollegiate Competition.
WKU has finished in the top five nationally for 14 consecutive years and has placed in the top eight for 30 straight years with four overall championships in 2000, 2001, 2005 and 2018.
The top 10 schools in the Overall Intercollegiate Competition are University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Florida, WKU, University of Missouri, Pennsylvania University, Syracuse University, Arizona State University, University of Montana, Indiana University, and University of Iowa.
In this year’s Hearst program, WKU won the Intercollegiate Photojournalism Competition and tied for first in the Intercollegiate Multimedia Competition.
Two recent WKU photojournalism graduates will compete in the Hearst program’s National Writing, Photojournalism, Audio, Television and Multimedia Championships June 2-8 in San Francisco. Kennedy Gott, a December graduate from Bowling Green, is one of six finalists for the Photojournalism National Championship, while Allie Schallert, a May graduate from New Windsor, New York, is one of five finalists for the Multimedia National Championship.
Four WKU graduates earned awards in the Multimedia Team Digital News/Enterprise Story Team Competition. Sam Mallon of Silver Spring, Maryland, and Jordan Matthis of Owensboro placed fourth and while Zane Meyer-Thornton of Los Angeles, California, and Addison LeBoutillier of Owensboro placed fifth.
