Monthly Competition Winners
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The 2020–2021 Hearst Journalism Awards program consisted of 14 competitions in college-level writing, photojournalism, audio, television and multimedia. The top five finalists in each competition earned scholarship awards, with matching grants going to their schools for a total of $238,000.
Each participating university also earned a $250 stipend per competition entered. The top finalists from these monthly competitions and their winning submissions are featured here. Top winners in each division qualified to participate in the 2021 National Championships.
Multimedia I – Narrative Video Storytelling
Fifth Place
$1,000 Scholarship
Madeline Kraft
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Multimedia II – Innovative Storytelling and Audience Engagement
Multimedia III – Digital News or Enterprise Story – Individual
Multimedia IV – Digital News or Enterprise Story – Team
First Place
$3,000 Scholarship
Michelle Hanks, Nic Huey, Silas Walker, Emily Moses, Grace Pritchett, Phoebe Alcala, Chase Sheehan Breanna Luke, Hayley Watson, Dalton Puckett, Madihah Abri, Megan Strassweg, Katie Stratman
Western Kentucky University
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Second Place
$2,000 Scholarship
Sarah Redmond, Caroline Almy, Veronica Correa, Haley France, Malin Curry
University of Florida
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Third Place
$1,500 Scholarship
Nash Consing, Hope Davison, Molly Horak, Halynna Snyder, Taylor Tyson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Fourth Place
$1,000 Scholarship
Jacob Moscovitch, Daffy Liu, Lia Waldrum
University of Missouri
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Fifth Place
$1,000 Scholarship
Christopher Ramirez, Sebastian Mino-Bucheli, Eve DeBord, Kyran Berlin, Ari Arciaga, Samantha Laurey, Dan Dejesus
San Francisco State University
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