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WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST FOUNDATION

44th Annual Journalism Awards Program

THE HEARST AWARDS

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Randolph A. Hearst1960

The Legacy Lives OnThis book is dedicated to

journalism education and

the educators whose devotion

and dedication train young

men and women in the

field of communications.

Anyone interested in the profession of journalism… in the accurate, timely and fair reporting ofnews should be energized and challenged bytoday’s headlines. Major news organizations havebeen called to account by competitors rangingfrom bloggers to talk radio superstars – from partisan groups to academics. When you readtoday's headlines you are struck by the power,importance, and value of a free press. It's hard to believe the challenges we face around theglobe would be so severe if every country main-tained a free press of their own. It's impossible to believe a democracy like ours could functionwithout our first amendment traditions.

Journalism education is the cornerstone that supports that tradition, and insures that mediaoutlets will have capable young professionals forthe future – people who will report and interpretthe world's events and someday lead importantnews organizations.

We at The Hearst Foundations are proud to playour part in this process. The competition wesponsor draws the best students from around thecountry. Our graduates are working in the bestnewsrooms, all across the nation.

Back in 1887, when W. R. Hearst began hisnewspaper career at the San Francisco Examinermany of the capabilities and technologies of newsgathering were in a primitive state. But even in that bygone era fast accurate reporting andwriting, visual images that showed the story, andenterprise were all valued characteristics.

This past year’s competition was the 44th year ofthe program. 842 entries were submitted from103 accredited undergraduate journalism schoolsfrom around the country. Of those, 518 were in writing, 153 in photo, and 171 in broadcastnews. Of those entrants, 24 finalists came to thechampionship this last year (8 in writing, 6 inphoto, 5 in radio and 5 in TV).

You can be proud to be a member of this venerablecompetition. More importantly, our citizens, governors, corporate leaders and the members of our Foundation Board are proud of you – thenext generation. All free nations will depend onyour accounts and photos to find out what happened yesterday – and why.

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST III

Chair, Hearst Journalism Awards ProgramPresident, W.R. Hearst Foundation

DEANS COMMENT ON JOURNALISM’S SCANDALS • PAGES 26 – 29

Winners all, the year’s writing, photojournalism and broadcast students whoseschool-year work earned them top honors from the Hearst Journalism Awards

judges gathered in San Francisco for the 2004 National Championship.

THIS YEARS’ CHAMPIONSHIP FINALISTS

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The week of competitions culminated in the Awards ceremony on the San Francisco SpiritYacht. The sunset cruise of the bay has become a Championship tradition the past few years.

Having completed their assignments the day before, finalists were able to enjoy the views,mingle and dine with judges, deans and specialguests. The judges’ results were announced during the dessert course, by which point thefinalists’ anticipation was palpable.

The awards ceremony officially began with program director Jan Watten welcoming allaboard and reiterating the oft repeated mantra:that the finalists, by virtue of having made it to the championship, were all winners in theirown right.

AWARDS NIGHT — CROWNING FUTURE GENERATIONS OF JOURNALISM

San Francisco u Saturday, June 5, 2004

A picturesque evening for everyone on the boat. Never without a camera,program alumni Jack Gruber, first place photo winner in 1989

from Ohio University, is shown above capturing the event.

Writing finalist Van Jensen snaps a shot of fellow finalists.

The 2004 finalists board theSan Francisco Spirit Yachtfor the Awards Dinner.

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Tom Eastham, Vice President & Western Director of the Hearst Foundations, andRobert Frehse, Jr., Vice President & Executive Director of the Hearst Foundations followed suit by welcoming everyone on behalf of the west and east coast branches of the foundation.

Hearst Foundations Director Anissa Balson spoke next of the Hearst family’s ongoingcommitment to the Journalism program. Rounding out the list of speakers were Dr.Richard Cole, Chair of the Journalism Program’s Steering Committee, who praised the student performance in the program, and also introduced the steering committee.

The writing winners recognized their articles before their names were announced and had to maintain composure until they were officially called up to receive theirawards from Chris Lavin, writing judge. Photo Judges Jodie Steck, Clem Murray, andKirk McKoy collectively passed out the photojournalism Awards. John Hultman andTerry Connelly did the honors for Television and Radio Broadcast News.

As the bay cruise came to an end, congratulations were exchanged, photos weresnapped, and parents were called. One could sense a collective sense of satisfactionmixed with relief. Still, a few finalists were already looking forward: “See you at nextyear’s championship,” was an oft-heard refrain.

Anissa Balson,Hearst Foundations Board Director, welcomes all on behalf of her family.

Tom Eastham, Vice President andWestern Director of The Hearst Foundations,delivers welcomingremarks at the awardsceremony.

Robert Freshe, Jr., Vice President and Executive Director of theHearst Foundations, greets students and special guests.

Anissa Balson, HearstFoundations Board

Director, presents theFirst Place medallionin the Intercollegiate

PhotojournalismCompetition to

Pam Johnson,Western Kentucky

University.

Dean Richard Cole, University of North Carolina,speaks about the SteeringCommittee’s role.

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Photo judge Jodie Steck presents the First Place award in the

Photojournalism Championship to Jae Lee.

Left to right:Eric Wellman, Syracuse University, Radio Broadcast NewsDaniel Winters, Iowa State University, TV Broadcast NewsJae Lee, Western Kentucky University, PhotojournalismJesse Abrams-Morley, Northwestern University, Writing

Jesse Abrams-Morleyembraces writing judgeChris Lavin upon receiving the First Place award in writing.

Broadcast judge John Hultman presentsEric Wellman with the First Place award inthe Radio Broadcast News Championship.

Dan Winters receives his First Place award in theTelevision Broadcast News Championship from broadcast judge Terry Connelly.

THE 2004 CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS

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Intercollegiate winners join for a portrait: Douglas Anderson, Pennsylvania State University; Terry Hynes, University ofFlorida; Roger Boye, Northwestern University; David Rubin, Syracuse University; Pam Johnson and James Kenney,Western Kentucky University.

Broadcast finalists Juanita Page and Allison Sossaman mug for the camera at the Welcome Dinner.

Photo judge Clem Murray and his wife Mimi chat with photo finalistsRod Reidsma and Jae Lee.

Dean Bob Ruggles, Florida A&M University, departingsteering committee member of 20 years, catches upwith Dean Will Norton, University of Nebraska.

Broadcast finalists Katie Piper, Knez Walker and Eric Wellmanget aquainted.

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Writing finalist Van Jensen works

to meet his deadline.

Writing finalists,judges, and deansdescend the stepsof City Hall uponthe completion ofthe Matt Gonzalezinterview.

Dr. Hamid Khani of San Francisco StateUniversity gives directionsto Juanita Page.

The Broadcast finalists meet in the hospitality suite to receive instructions and deadlines.

RANDOM FOCUS

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A writing judge evaluates

a finalist’s article.

Departing broadcastjudge John Hultman andhis wife Wilma take inthe city view from TheSan Francisco Spirit.

Tom Murray, Arizona State University, edits his radio story.

Writing judge Sherry Howard, broadcast finalist Juanita Pageand steering committee member (and former writing judge)Lorraine Branham discuss the championship.

Photo judges Jodie Steck and Clem Murray have fun choosing the winner of the year’s Best Single Photo, Daniel Gawlowski of Ball State University.

Program director Jan Watten calls a photo finalist toinform him he made the cut andshould head for San Francisco.

Program assistant Yasi Haerizadeh andDr. Hamid Khani of San Francisco StateUniversity enjoy chatting during theawards night reception.

2003 – 2004 INTERCOLLEGIATE COMPETITIONS u WINNING COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Since the inception of the program in 1960, the overall ranking of the top schools in writing has been recognized. As the program grew to include photojournalism and broadcastnews, cash prizes were added to the intercollegiate competition(in 1990), giving journalism schools a financial reward for thecollective success of their students.

The Hearst Awards acknowledges the winners of theIntercollegiate Competitions by granting a total of $52,500 in prizes to the three highest scoring schools in each division.Medallions are also awarded to the top ten schools in eachcategory.

At the culmination of each competition year, points scored by all students in the three divisions of the program are tabulatedindividually to determine winners of the IntercollegiateWriting, Photojournalism and Broadcast News Competitions.

The Overall Intercollegiate Winner is The University ofMissouri School of Journalism, with the highest accumulatedpoints from all three divisions.

Roger Boye, Northwestern University; Pam Johnson, WesternKentucky University; and Mike Wong, Arizona State University display their First Place Intercollegiate Awards.

WRITING

FIRST PLACE$10,000 AWARDThe Medill School of JournalismNorthwestern University

SECOND PLACE$5,000 AWARDSchool of JournalismUniversity of Missouri

THIRD PLACE$2,500 AWARDCollege of CommunicationsPennsylvania State University

FOURTH PLACECollege of Journalism and MassCommunicationsUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln

FIFTH PLACEPhilip Merrill College of JournalismUniversity of Maryland

SIXTH PLACESchool of Journalism and MassCommunicationUniversity of Iowa

SEVENTH PLACESchool of Journalism and MassCommunicationUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

EIGHTH PLACE-TIESchool of Journalism andTelecommunicationUniversity of Kentucky

EIGHTH PLACE-TIESchool of JournalismMichigan State University

TENTH PLACEWilliam Allen White School ofJournalism and Mass CommunicationsUniversity of Kansas

PHOTOJOURNALISM

FIRST PLACE$10,000 AWARDSchool of Journalism and BroadcastingWestern Kentucky University

SECOND PLACE$5,000 AWARDCollege of Journalism and CommunicationsUniversity of Florida

THIRD PLACE$2,500 AWARDDepartment of JournalismBall State University

FOURTH PLACESchool of Journalism and MassCommunicationUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

FIFTH PLACESchool of Journalism and MassCommunicationUniversity of Colorado

SIXTH PLACEGrady College of Journalism and Mass CommunicationUniversity of Georgia

SEVENTH PLACEDepartment of Journalism Central Michigan University

EIGHTH PLACEA.Q. Miller School of Journalism andMass CommunicationsKansas State University

NINTH PLACESchool of JournalismUniversity of Missouri

TENTH PLACESchool of Journalism and MassCommunicationsSan Jose State University

BROADCAST NEWS

FIRST PLACE$10,000 AWARDWalter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass CommunicationArizona State University

SECOND PLACE$5,000 AWARDSchool of Journalism and MassCommunicationUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

THIRD PLACE$2,500 AWARDS.I. Newhouse School of Public CommunicationsSyracuse University

FOURTH PLACEDepartment of Journalism and Mass CommunicationsNew Mexico State University

FIFTH PLACESchool of JournalismUniversity of Missouri

SIXTH PLACECollege of CommunicationsPennsylvania State University

SEVENTH PLACECollege of Journalism and MassCommunicationsUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln

EIGHTH PLACESchool of JournalismUniversity of Montana

NINTH PLACECollege of Journalism and CommunicationsUniversity of Florida

TENTH PLACESchool of Journalism and BroadcastingWestern Kentucky University

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Like many hard-working San Franciscans, Gerardo woke up earlyThursday morning, arrived at his place of business before 8 a.m. and hungout with his co-workers.He needed only two things to make his morning complete: a job and a home.An undocumented worker based in San Francisco’s Mission District,Gerardo, who declined to give his last name, sleeps in his car and spendseach day waiting on the corner of Cesar Chavez and Bartlett streets. He sitson a milk crate or chair, hoping that someone will drive by and hire him towork on a construction or painting project.With a city panel set to release a plan in the next month to eradicate chronic homelessness in San Francisco, Gerardo and his fellow day laborers in the Mission are putting a new face on the homeless problem,that of the working Latino man with no drug dependency or mental illness.At Dolores Street Community Services on Valencia Street, hundreds of such men come each day to seek various services, said Javier Matos, adevelopment assistant who puts out the organization’s newsletter. Almostall of those the group serves come from the Mission, with more that 100living in four temporary housing locations that the independent nonprofitruns in the neighborhood.But neither Gerardo nor fellow day laborer Manuel Lopez stays in theseshelters. Gerardo said he would head back to his car at 5 or 6 p.m., whileLopez said he would spend the night “debajo del Puente”-under thebridge.Work has become sparse for these men lately. The contractors know whereto find them, but with workers dotting street corners on Cesar Chavezthroughout the neighborhood, competition for the $10-15 an hour jobs arefierce. More often than not, the men at Cesar Chavez and Bartlett leavework without working.

“It’s too little jobs for too much people,” explainsGerardo, 38, his scraggly brown hair sticking out fromthe bottom of his winter hat.The day laborers accept jobs American workers won’ttake, such as lifting objects so heavy they hurt theirbacks. But at the end of the day, they don’t have enoughmoney-or legal standing-to find a place to live.

Homelessness didn’t used to be such a problem for the Latino communi-ty, Matos said. But as more undocumented workers moved into theMission, they struggled to find housing because of legal barriers. And asthe immigrant families stayed longer in the United States, the bonds thatused to hold them together began to come undone.“It’s becoming more of an issue as Latino culture becomes more western-ized,” Matos said.He is concerned that, though the Latino homeless problem in the Missionseems to be getting worse-the city has no reliable statistics to confirm orrefute this-few in positions of power are taking notice.Jesus Medellin, assistant director of Housing Not Borders, which also primarily serves homeless Latinos, had similar concerns. He said withmayor Gavin Newsom’s “Care Not Cash” plan going into effect, fewer shelter spaces would be available for Latino homeless people, includingundocumented workers.“We have never been asked what we think,” Medellin said. “You only seepoliticians come to the people when there’s an election.”Newsom has taken several steps to address the city’s homeless problemgenerally. In March, he appointed 33 local politicians, activists and expertsto a panel that will examine how to end chronic homelessness in SanFrancisco in the next 10 years. The mayor set a June 30 deadline for thepanel to complete its work. President Bush has urged America’s mayors inearly to come up with 10-year plans to eliminate permanent homelessnessand pledged incentives to those that do.But undocumented workers in the Mission might not benefit from thisplanning as much as other groups. For one thing, they could be barredfrom places receiving federal funding because they are not legal residents.Also, Medellin said, many undocumented workers don’t want to providefingerprints to shelters, which some require, for fear of being turned in toimmigration authorities.Matos said he also worries that the focus on chronic homelessness willlead politicians to forget those, like most of the Mission’s day laborers,who don’t fulfill the homeless stereotypes of having mental illnesses anddrug addictions.“Those that don’t fit that definition of homelessness,” he said, “are goingto fall through the cracks.”

2004 NATIONAL WRITING CHAMPIONSHIPThe six first place winners and two topscorers of the monthly writing competitionsqualified for the National WritingChampionship in San Francisco, where they competed for additional awards.

This special event consists of an on-the-spotassignment and a press interview of a newsworthy individual – researched andwritten on tight deadlines. The finalists’pieces were judged for accuracy, writingquality, enterprise and innovation.

Following the "Welcome Dinner," the finalists met the judges in the HearstHospitality Suite at The Palace Hotel toreceive their on-the-spot assignment. Thisyear, they were to find a story in the city’shistoric Mission District. Upon completionof this assignment, the identity of theirinterview subject was revealed: MattGonzalez, President of San Francisco’sBoard of Supervisors.

The next morning, finalists, judges, and deansboarded a bus for City Hall where the groupinterview took place. The finalists had therest of the day to write both an on-the-spotpiece about the interview and a more in-depth profile of their interview subject.

FIRST PLACE • Jesse Abrams-Morley, Northwestern UniversityOn-the-Spot Assignment: Mission District.

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MATT GONZALEZ INTERVIEW FIRST PLACE • Jesse Abrams-Morley, Northwestern UniversityBelow is an excerpt from Jesse’s Interview Profile Article

His hair is long, but not so long as the scraggly gray beard covering part of a T-shirt that reads,“People are entitled to know what’s in their food. We want labeling on genetically modified food.”Standing in the Board of Supervisors chamber in San Francisco’s City Hall, Jim Dorenkott isn’tyour ordinary political aide. Then again, Dorenkott’s boss, Board President, Matt Gonzalez, isn’tyour ordinary politician.After all, how many other leaders in American government proudly cite Marx as adefining influence? Or switched from a major party (Democratic) to a minor one(Green) between a general election and a runoff? Or think that San Francisco MayorGavin Newsom-you know, the one who got all that national attention for allowing gaymarriages-really needs to become more progressive?Sure, this is San Francisco, where conservatives have about as much success as apitcher throwing a fastball to Barry Bonds. But even against this liberal backdrop,Gonzalez stands out, his unabashed support for workers, immigrants and minoritiesmaking him the latest darling of the left.And he’s not about to apologize for it.“I’m perfectly comfortable with the label of progressive or discussing Marxism orsomething like that,” he says. “I’m not a Marxist or a communist or anything like that.But I do see incredible shortcomings in American democracy.”His devotion to progressive causes helped him garner 47 percent of the vote in a may-oral runoff election against Newsom in December and nearly allowed him to becomethe first Green Party mayor of a major U.S. city. His supporters cite his unwaveringcommitment to that in which he believes as one of his great strengths.“He’s someone who believes in equal justice for all,” says Victor Marquez, vice president of the nonprofit San Francisco Tomorrow, which lobbies on environmental and space-planning issues and endorsed Gonzalez in the mayoral race. “He’s someone who’s not afraid to tell the truth and speak the truth.”It’s an approach Gonzalez, born in Texas in 1965, says he learned from his days in college at ColumbiaUniversity in New York and law school at Stanford.At Columbia, the egilatarian political theories of Karl Marx spoke to him. At Stanford, he says he studied case after case in which the judges interpreted laws in favor of large corporations at theexpense of ordinary people.“What’s not being spoken about is the other reality,” he says. “You’ve got judges who have donor listsduring their campaigns who are heavily influenced by certain interest.”After graduating from Stanford in 1990, Gonzalez became a public defender. He failed in 1999 in hisfirst attempt to become a supervisor but came back in 2000 and defeated Juanita Owens for the District5 position, despite switching parties between the November general election and the December runoff.

He says he decided to make the switch after attending a rally out-side a U.S. Senate debate in San Francisco. The major parties hadkept the Green Party candidate from participating, an exclusion thatincensed Gonzalez and, he says, revealed some of the inconsisten-cies in the Democrat’s message. “For me it kind of all came together,” he says, “And I realized I didn’t want to be a member of a party that didn’t want to debateother parties.”So while he firmly backs Newsom, widely seen as an extremelyprogressive democrat, for allowing gay marriages, he also notes

the mayor’s opposition to raising the city’s minimum wage to $8.50 as a sign that he doesn’t supportSan Francisco’s working class. Gonzalez also opposes Newsom’s “Care Not Cash” policy, which aimsto provide more housing for the homeless while giving them less money.For their part, Newsom supporters say they respect Gonzalez but also recognize the need to compro-mise and appease different interests.“Obviously…it was a very heated race,” says Mishana Hosseinioun, who works in the mayor’s pressoffice. “[Newsom] is trying his very best to do what is best for everyone.”Hosseinioun adds that the mayor is trying to reach out to Gonzalez supporters by supporting gaymarriage and convening a 33-person panel that will develop a plan to end chronic homelessness inthe city within 10 years.It’s those sorts of progressive actions that convince Gonzalez his campaign for mayor and his progressive values still are having an impact.And it’s Gonzalez’s dedication to standing by those values that makes volunteering as an unofficialthird aide worthwhile, Dorenkott says. “It’s just kind of an honor to be serving this guy.”

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By the time I got to San Francisco in early June, I had myself thoroughlyconvinced that I did not belong there and stood no chance of winning. Ithad been more than three months since I had done any serious reporting,and I had once again taken what I saw as the back door into the champi-onship by winning the editorial-column category – otherwise known as theonly competition that doesn’t require one to be a great reporter.

Somehow, though, between Wednesday night and Saturday night, I redis-covered why I loved journalism. Thursday, without ever having visited theMission District, I came up with a piece in just a few hours on the home-less day laborers there. Meanwhile, my fellow competitors came up withequally if not more interesting topics and examined them with great depthand insight. On Friday, we showed our creativity once again, coming upwith vastly different insights into the life of former mayoral candidate MattGonzalez. More than my own success in San Francisco, the brilliance ofmy peers showed me why I should go into journalism. There is a talentedgroup of writers and reporters waiting to hit the scene, a group more thancapable of telling the great storiesthat need to be told.

I left San Francisco having wonback respect for myself but alsofor the profession of journalism.The competition made meremember why I used to run outto the front step every day as ayoungster and bring the paperback inside, eager to read a sportssection that might as well havebeen created by magic itself.

2004 NATIONAL WRITING CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS

FIRST PLACE$5,000 Scholarship and Hearst MedallionJESSE D. ABRAMS-MORLEYNorthwestern University

SECOND PLACE$4,000 Scholarship and Hearst Medallion$1,000 Award for Best Article of the YearLAUREN SMILEYUniversity of Iowa

THIRD PLACE$3,000 Scholarship

and Hearst MedallionANN FRIEDMAN

University of Missouri

By JESSE ABRAMS-MORLEY, Northwestern University First Place, National Writing Championship

The Best in Student Writingn Their Own Words . . .I

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FINALIST$1,500 scholarship and a Hearst MedallionJOHN FRANKUniversity of North Carolina,Chapel Hill

FINALIST$1,500 scholarship

and a Hearst MedallionDIRK CHATELAIN

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

FINALIST$1,500 scholarship and a Hearst Medallion$1,000 Award for BestReporting TechniqueCAROLYN SZCZEPANSKIUniversity of Missouri

FINALIST$1,500 scholarship

and a Hearst MedallionVAN A. JENSEN

University of Nebraska,Lincoln

FINALIST$1,500 scholarship and a Hearst MedallionELI SASLOWSyracuse University

The writing finalistsget a sneak peek

at the Board ofSupervisors’ chambers in

City Hall.

Finalists and judgesdescend the grand staircase in the rotunda of City Hall following the interview.

THIRD PLACECOKE WHITWORTH

$3,000 Scholarship andHearst Medallion

University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill

SECOND PLACE$4,000 Scholarship andHearst Medallion DARON DEAN University of Florida

On Monday, May 31st, the three photo judges reviewed thetwelve semi-final portfolios in the San Francisco Hearst Foundationoffice. After a few hours of deliberation and discussion, thejudges selected six finalists to attend the championship. Thesetop finalists were notified immediately and flown to SanFrancisco the next day, where they competed in “the shoot-off"assignments, which were predetermined by the judges.This year Nikon and Canon provided cameras, offering state of the art equipment for the shooters to use and marking the firstyear that the Photo Championship has gone completely digital.Tuesday night, merely hours after arriving in San Francisco, thefinalists met the judges in the Hearst hospitality suite to becomeacquainted, review the portfolios that got them there, andreceive their assignments. This year there were five assignments:Three to five images of the Oakland A’s ballgame, three to fiveimages of the Mission District, one image about life underground, oneimage of San Francisco before 8 a.m. (with the time showing),and a “postcard with an edge.” Needless to say, the finalists hadtheir hands full and immediately set about shooting and thenediting their work to meet their Friday deadline, which they all succeeded in doing.

We are very grateful toCanon and

Nikon for loaning the photofinalists a full array of lensesand digital cameras for theChampionship. The HearstFoundation thanks them fortheir generosity, support andinvestment in the future ofphotojournalism.

FIRST PLACE $5,000 Scholarship andHearst Medallion JAE S. LEEWestern Kentucky University

FINALIST$1,500 Scholarship and

Hearst Medallion$1,000 Award for

Best Single PhotographDANIEL F. GAWLOWSKI

Ball State University

2004 NATIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS

FINALIST$1,500 Scholarship and Hearst MedallionJAMES BRANAMANWestern Kentucky University

FINALIST$1,500 Scholarship and Hearst MedallionRODRICK REIDSMAWestern Kentucky University

KRISTIN BEHRLE (Semi-finalist)Western Kentucky University$1,000 Award for Best Picture Story

The Best in Student Photography

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FIRST PLACE • Jae S. Lee, Western Kentucky University

Jae made these images during the annual “shoot-off” in San Francisco. Next page, clockwise from top left:

A man gives his business card to customer Josephina Santos,

after selling her a bag of oranges off of his truck.

Maria Martinez, originally from Mexico, sews while waiting to sell flowers at

the corner of Folsom St. and24th. She has been selling

flowers for three years.

An employee at the Kristin bar smokes a cigarette on

her break. She came to the U.S. from Seoul, South

Korea in 2002.

Vanessa Romo, 4, second from left, uses her fingers to

count during graduation atthe Mission Neighborhood

Centers. The federally fundedprogram teaches pre-school

Spanish speaking childrenEnglish in preparation for

elementary school.

A woman prays before noonmass at the St. Peters Church.

Since most church members inthis area are Latino, services

are held in Spanish.

Jose Martinez, lights a candle as he prepares for the noon mass at

St. Peters Church.

2004 NATIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISM CHAMPIONSHIP

Artist Rodger Roundy delivers his painting to his buyer in front ofthe Port of San Francisco on Wednesday, June 2, 2004.

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Before I came to the Hearst Photojournalism Championship, I thought it would be a very good trip though I didn’t expect to win any prizes.There were two other Western Kentucky University finalists in the photojournalism championship. I simply looked forward to sharing theexperience with them. I was fortunate to win first place and have the chance to meet great colleagues, judges and Hearst staff.

On our first night in San Francisco, we were given five assignmentsconsisting of two five-photo packages and three single photo assign-ments. The judges gave us only basic information and we had to interpret what kinds of images to make. Within two and a half days, we had to research and produce images for each assignment. It wasvery intense and my biggest challenge was to figure out how to managetime. I think managing time was the key to completing the assignmentseffectively. I personally liked the Mission District assignment. It was the toughest one, but I enjoyed making a five-photo package on theMission District.

It was a great idea to provide the photo finalists with digital cameras and laptops. I didn’t take advantage ofthis because I had my own equipment, but other finaliststold me that this helped them save time since many photojournalists now use digital.

I was so pleased to be a part of the championship and to meet many great people in San Francisco. I will never forget what I experienced and learned from this competition. I am currently working as a staff photographer at the Tennessean in Nashville and thinkwinning the Hearst Championship was definitely an asset during my job search.

A giant rainbow flag flies over the corner of Castro St. and 17th. The city of San Francisco is nationally recognized as the center of gay culture in the U.S. However, even here, some opposelegalizing gay marriage. The city started allowing same-sex couples to wed last February.

By Jae S. Lee, Western Kentucky UniversityFirst Place, Photojournalism Championship

Fan Francine Pinonigets her hat backfrom Oakland out-fielder Eric Byrnesafter he signed it for her.

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TAKE US OUT TO THE BALLGAME.

Clockwise from top left: Oakland Athletics fans leave the Network AssociatesColiseum after Mark Kotsay hits a game-winning homer in the 10th inning offof Chicago White Sox pitcher Jon Adkins on June 2, 2004.

Oakland A’s hitter Eric Karros gets ready to bat in the second inning.

Oakland A’s fans cheer for Mark Kotsay after his game-winning homer.

Oakland A’s fan Sutton Murray, 11, cheers for his team.

2004 NATIONAL BROADCAST NEWS CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS

FIRST PLACE$5,000 Scholarship andHearst MedallionERIC WELLMANSyracuse University

SECOND PLACE$4,000 scholarship andHearst Medallion$1,000 Award for Best Useof Radio for News CoverageTHOMAS D. MURRAYArizona State University

THIRD PLACE$3,000 Scholarship andHearst MedallionWILLIAM W. PITTSArizona State University

R A D I O

The broadcast competition was added to the awards program in 1988. Since then, the broadcast competition has grown fromjust one contest in which the students entered both radio andtelevision stories, to four radio and television competitions eachacademic year, with semi-finals in each. Electronic journalism isan important component of journalism education today, and theawards program is keeping up with the ever-growing changes in journalism education.

The culmination of the competitions is the semi-finals, in whichthe top winners from the two radio and television competitionsare selected to submit additional tapes. From these entries, the judges selected five radio and five television finalists to participate in the National Broadcast News Championship inSan Francisco.

FINALIST$1,500 Scholarship andHearst MedallionJUSTIN GRAYSONFlorida A&M University

FINALIST$1,500 Scholarship and Hearst

MedallionALLISON SOSSAMAN

University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill

The broadcast judges assigned two stories to the radio finalists:Bay area gas prices and the anti-panhandling law (propositionM). Both assignments were to be presented as stories for aCalifornia radio network that serves more than 100 stations all over the state and were to be used in its morning drive segments. The judges expected to receive stories with a hardnews angle, ranging between one to two minutes.

The Best in Student Radio Broadcast News

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Allison Sossaman works on her report.

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I cringe to think how reporters used to do their jobs before the age of the internet...and especially Google. What a lifesaver. Reporting in a strange city was not only my biggest challenge of the competition, it was my biggest adventure. That first night in San Francisco, thejudges handed out the assignments and sent us scattering on our way - two stories in two days. At eleven that night I sat staring at my laptop, fingers resting on the keys in a state of overwhelming bewilderment. Jet lagged, bleary eyed, running on adrenalin, I wasattempting to report on a city I knew nothing about. Thank God forGoogle. A few searches later I discovered the mayor's name and number, the salient issues affecting city hall and a handful of potentialsources for my stories.

Unfortunately finding the sources on the net proved easier than finding the sources in person. I found the location of my first interviewee on a map, which appeared to be only a small handful ofblocks from our hotel; walking distance I thought. A couple of miles(and a few massive hills) later I arrived at my destination in one of San Francisco's less pristine neighborhoods. I no longer trusted mymap reading ability, so to get to my second source I determined a cabwould be a more efficient mode of transportation. Sadly, the cab driver failed to disclose that my chosen destination wasa grand total of two blocks away. Without making eyecontact with the driver to shield my embarrassment, I handed him three crumpled up ones and told him tokeep the change.

There's no better way to learn about a city than toreport on it. On the ground not 24 hours, tape recorderin hand, I was speaking with community leaders aboutthe issues closest to them. It was a lesson in politics(and geography) that no tourist could ever obtain, andit's a lesson that must be discovered by pounding thepavement. Not even Google can do that.

By ERIC WELLMAN, Syracuse University First Place, Radio Broadcast News Championship

Broadcast finalists and judges discuss the assignments.

Eric Wellman,Syracuse University,edits his radio story.

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2004 NATIONAL BROADCAST NEWS CHAMPIONSHIP WINNERS

FIRST PLACE$5,000 Scholarship andHearst MedallionDANIEL L. WINTERSIowa State University

SECOND PLACE$4,000 scholarship andHearst Medallion$1,000 Award for Best Useof Television for News CoverageJEFFREY R. BUTERAUniversity of Florida

THIRD PLACE$3,000 Scholarship andHearst MedallionKATIE J. PIPERUniversity of Missouri

FINALIST$1,500 Scholarship andHearst MedallionJUANITA M. PAGEUniversity of Nebraska,Lincoln

FINALIST$1,500 Scholarship and

Hearst MedallionM. KNEZ WALKER

University of Missouri

T E L E V I S I O NThe Best in Student Television Broadcast News

The broadcast judges assigned two stories to the television finalists: Gay Marriages in San Francisco and The City’s public art program of fiberglass hearts.The television finalists were instructed to prepare a complete news package, including a lead-in and a tag for each story, appropriate for a NorthernCalifornia television news station’s first early eveningbroadcast. The stories were to have a hard newsangle, to include at least one reporter on-camerastand-up, and to range from one to two minutes.

The judges received the completed tapes and scriptsby Saturday morning for review.

All finalists edited their tapes at the BroadcastCommunication Arts Department at San FranciscoState University. We thank the staff of theCommunication Arts Department for the use of their facilities and personnel, and for their continuing support of the program.

Dr. Hamid Khani reviews the equipment for Katie Piper.

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I was sitting at a fast food restaurant in Ames, Iowa last April when my cellphone rang. “This is Jan Watten of the Hearst Foundation, do you have aminute to talk,” she asked. “That depends,” I replied, “Do you have goodnews?” To my joy and amazement, Jan had great news. I was going to SanFrancisco.

After receiving our assignments on the first night of the competition, I spentsome time researching and hoping that I could find a unique way of telling stories that the judges would appreciate. Frustrated and lying in bed without a definite game plan, I awoke the next morning with a feeling of sheer terror.“What if I can’t line up my interviews?” I thought. “What if I can’t find my wayaround the city?” I was mostly scared that I would run out of time.

But the streets of San Francisco welcomed me and my fears. I found my wayaround and found wonderful video opportunities thanks to a helpful photojour-nalist. I met fascinating people who shared interesting stories, and I found thatthe skills I have learned work just as well 2,000 miles away as they do in theMidwest. I also discovered how amazing it feels to be surrounded by peopleyour own age who are just as passionate as you, and who, on a different day or with a different assignment could have won just as easily.

Reflecting on my time in San Francisco, I canthink of only one way to sum up the HearstFoundationChampionship experi-ence, the same way Idescribe the profession we’ve chosen: It’s the moststressful fun you’ll everhave in your life! And I couldn’t be more grateful.

By DAN WINTERS, Iowa State UniversityFirst Place, Television Broadcast News Championship

Knez Walker, (left)University of Missouriand Jeff Butera, (below)University of Florida,focus on editing their assignments.

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Dan Winters, Iowa StateUniversity, edits his television story.

The Hearst Awards work in good part because the judgeswork. All are professionals, working experts in writing,photo and broadcast. They devote time and talents year-round assessing the quality of entries. Theirs is a service to the program, and in a larger sense a contribution to all journalism education. The program is deeply indebted to them and their work.

CHRISTOPHER N. LAVINSenior Editor The San Diego Union-TribuneSan Diego, California

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ALEX MARTINAssistant Managing EditorNewsday Melville, New York

THE JUDGES

JUDGING THE WRITING

In 1960 Randolph A. Hearst and his brother William R. Hearst, Jr. named the first program judges, who were –and continue to be– recruited from non-Hearst publications. The opportunity to contribute to the future of journalism was as impor-tant to the judges over 40 years ago as it is today.

Like their counterparts in the photojournalism and broadcast categories, the writing judges review and score thevast number of articles submitted each month without any monetary compensation. A former judge said of theprogram: “The future of journalism passes through the Hearst Championships. Year after year, every category ofjudging brings out the best of the best to the challenging and exciting competition. It was rewarding to be a partof it.”

The program is indebted to the editor-judges whose valuable time and talents are generously volunteered to theprogram each year. The judges are shown below discussing the writing assignments.

SHERRY L. HOWARDExecutive Editor Inquirer On-LineThe Philadelphia Inquirer,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Little did I know that becoming a judge in the HearstJournalism Awards Program would be one of my toughest – and most rewarding – assignments.

On the second Friday of each month, like clockwork, I'd get the thick package of newspaper clips from theHearst office. And each Sunday, I'd spread those clipsacross my bed and pore over sports stories or profiles or editorials, to name a few. A couple hours later, I'demerge after having read some of the best journalism in the country – not some of the best college journalismbut the best of any journalism. Many of these studentswere writing stories that we would gladly publish in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

This year was the last year of my judgeship, and I leaveit knowing that I have fleetingly touched – and met –some of the people who will make us veterans proud.

— Sherry Howard

JODIE STECKDeputy Director of Photography The Dallas Morning NewsDallas, Texas

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JUDGING THE PHOTOSThe photo competition was added to the program in 1970, and eachyear three photojournalists from leading non-Hearst newspapers serveas judges. Like their writing and broadcast counterparts, the photojudges serve without pay as a service to their profession.

Former judge Con Keyes said: “The real joy of the Hearst competitionis seeing that the future of our craft is in good hands as these youngand talented students go forward with their dreams.”

The program is indebted to these judges, whose contributions haveencouraged and aided the careers of many young journalists. Thejudges are pictured here as they critiqued the top twelve print portfolios and the final assignments during the 2004 Championship in San Francisco. From a record 153 entries reviewed this year, twelve semi-finalists wereselected to submit print portfolios. Of these, sixfinalists were chosen toparticipate in the NationalChampionship.

CLEM MURRAY Director of Photography The Philadelphia InquirerPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania

KIRK McKOY Senior Photo Editor The Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles, California

Judging. Who knew?

When I started down this road five years ago, it was with trepidation. I had no idea how I would sit with the other judges, I worried aboutwhether I’d be the best replacement for outgoing judge, Scott Henry.“Don’t worry about a thing,” Scott had told me. “It’s awesome.” Easy forhim. He was director of photography at the Marin Independent Journal; I was unemployed. Months later, having forgotten about things, I got a phone call from Jan Watten. Thinking back now, I wonder how manystudents over the years have spoken those very words... “I got a phonecall from Jan Watten...”

From that moment on, a relationship was born that will last (hopefully)through the ages. One with students past, who call asking advice now and remind me that I didn’t score them well then; one with the judges,who call and remind me of everything; one with Board members, who are among the country’s most influential educators but who are more like family, and one with the Hearst Foundation folks, an incrediblyaccommodating and knowledgeable management team.

Led by Tom Eastham and coordinated, cajoled, coached and counseled byJan Watten, the ongoing commitment to journalistic excellence has beenthe birthplace to many of the strongest names in the business. As a judge,I’ve been witness to that excellence. As a judge, I’ve experienced the aweScott Henry referred to... now, as a former judge, I will miss it greatly.

Five years ago. Wow.

—Jodie Steck

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JOHN H. HULTMANCorrespondent and Anchor News Radio 780, WBBM-AM Chicago, Illinois

LINDA LEVY Director of News ProgrammingBay News 9 Tampa, Florida

JUDGING BROADCAST NEWS

In 1988, the awards program was augmented to include electronic journalism in keeping with our resolution to stay current in the evolution of journalism education. The program is indebted to our judges, whose contributions have furthered the careers of many young broadcast journalists. This year, the broadcast judges reviewed a record 171 entriessubmitted by students from universities across the country.

Our judges have told us that the quality of the journalism these studentsare practicing is outstanding. Because of their involvement with the program, the judges have been able to track the progress of not only the students, but of the journalism schools, as well. A former judge said:“The Hearst Journalism Awards Program provides a wonderful opportuni-ty, not only for financial reward, but as a learning and networking experi-ence for all of us. It's rewarding and refreshing to meet with students and faculty, and to observe the level of commitment of all involved.”

The program is indebted to our judges for the many hours they give to review the radio and television entries submitted in the monthly competitions. Pictured below are the judges evaluating the championship entries.

TERRY J. CONNELLY, SR.Senior Vice President and General Manager The Weather Channel Atlanta, Georgia

The 2003-04 Broadcast Competition produced some outstanding candidatesfrom a greater number of schools.

In both radio and television, our finalistshad some challenging assignments in San Francisco ranging from gas prices to same-sex marriages. All of the contestants show great promise. I wouldbe proud to have any of them in mynewsroom.

These past six years have been interest-ing and exciting. I want to thank theWilliam Randolph Hearst Foundation forthe honor of serving as a judge in theannual competition.

—John Hultman

CHAIR VICE CHAIR

DEAN RICHARD COLESchool of Journalism andMass CommunicationUniversity of North Carolina,Chapel Hill

LORRAINE E. BRANHAMDIRECTORSchool of Journalism University of Texas at Austin

PROF. ROGER BOYEASSISTANT DEANThe Medill School of JournalismNorthwestern University

DEAN DOUG ANDERSONCollege of CommunicationsPennsylvania State University

DEAN WILL NORTON, JR.College of JournalismUniversity of Nebraska,Lincoln

DEAN ROBERT RUGGLESSchool of Journalism andGraphic CommunicationFlorida A&M University

DEAN WILLIAM T. SLATERCollege of CommunicationsTexas Christian University

DEAN DAVID M. RUBINS. I. Newhouse School of Public CommunicationsSyracuse University

DEAN TREVOR R. BROWNSchool of JournalismIndiana University

DEAN JERRY BROWNSchool of JournalismUniversity of Montana

DEAN TERRY HYNESCollege of Journalism andCommunicationsUniversity of Florida

Greetings from the National SteeringCommittee of the Hearst Journalism Awards.The Committee is composed of deans fromaround the country, representing the morethan 100 accredited programs in theAssociation of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC). They oversee the awards program and set its standards and rules.

We work in close harmony with HearstFoundation executives, of course, mainly Tom Eastham and Jan Watten. I salute them for all the excellent work they do.

I would also like to salute the othermembers of the Steering Committee. All of them work diligently and thoughtfullybecause we all know how important theHearst Awards are. We keep in close touchwith the heads of mass communicationschools across the country, and with the contest judges, especially when a majorchange in the rules is contemplated.

The Hearst Awards is often called thePulitzer Prizes of college journalism, andrightly so. Without doubt, it’s the most prestigious of all the college competitions in our field. The student winners are the best and brightest in the nation. Hearty congratulations to all of them!

Very best wishes,Richard Cole Chair

THE 2003–2004 HEARST STEERING COMMITTEE

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The journalism world has beenrocked this year by what Editor& Publisher called “the gravestnewspaper scandal in recentU.S. history.” Newspapersacross the country, big andsmall, experienced ethical breakdowns and fictionalizedreporting that has caused anunending uproar.

Journalists everywhere are asking themselves what wentwrong and what can be doneabout it?

Among those most deeply concerned are America’s journalism educators, the professors who have taught andare teaching future generationsof those who practice journalismin our country’s newsrooms.

The Hearst Journalism Awardsprogram, working closely witheducators for forty years, askeda number of leading deans ofjournalism to express theirviews on what has become a historic time of testing for the nation’s media. Here aretheir words on the issues.

WHAT THE NATION’S JOURNALISM DEANS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT CURRENT SCANDALS

The journalistic sins committed by JaysonBlair and Jack Kelley bring up a crucial question:To whom are the media accountable? Unlike adoctor or a lawyer, a journalist in the UnitedStates cannot be sued for malpractice. A jour-nalist is not formally obligated by law to providefull, fair and accurate information.

— Are the media accountable to the gov-ernment? Yes, of course, because of libel, privacyand other laws. But we pride ourselves as anation with freedom of expression and theright to criticize government. Too often gov-ernment tries to hide information, not tell thepeople what they should know. Examples: thecoffin-covered flags of dead U.S. soldiersbeing returned home form Iraq, and the terri-ble treatment of Iraqi prisoners in U.S. cus-tody. The government knew about the treat-ment of the Iraqi prisoners months before themedia found out and published the pictures.

— Are the media accountable to themedia owners? Yes, of course, but the days ofindividual or family ownership of a newspaperor broadcast station are dwindling. Todayhuge media companies own many newspapersor broadcast stations. And worse, vast non-media conglomerates now, in turn, own com-panies that operate broadcast networks, mag-azines and newspapers. Too often theaccountability seems to be more to the con-glomerate’s army of stockholders who want tomake more and more money – with higherdividends each quarter – than to a sense ofsocial responsibility or the idea that journal-ism is a public trust.

— Are the media accountable to themedia managers, that is, the editors and pro-ducers? Yes, of course, but the top editors andother executives can’t do it all. After Jack

Kelley’s misdeeds were uncovered, the top edi-tor at USA Today, Karen Jurgensen, had toresign. She had not fabricated anything. Butshe was the top editor, and her head rolled.

— Are the media accountable to the audi-ence? Yes, the relationship between a mediaoutlet and its audience could be the mostimportant one of all. But because of intensecompetition and the drive for circulation andratings to gain advertising, too much mediacontent is entertainment or caters to the low-est common denominator. When you coverMichael Jackson’s latest scandal instead ofserious social or political news, you belittlejournalism’s calling. And too much mediacontent is rehash. A recent study by theProject for Excellence in Journalism painted ascary picture of U.S. media. It found that only5% of cable news contained new information;the other 95% of air time was filled by repeat-ing old facts (with less fact-checking and lessattention to journalistic standards than in thepast). That’s no way to fulfill the media’sresponsibility to provide the public with full,fair, and accurate information. Nor is cuttingback on reporters. The same study found that

newspapers lost 2,200 employees since 1990.And TV stations have a third fewer correspon-dents than they did in 1995. And radio news-room employees fell by 44% from 1994-2001.

Market research, which is so populartoday, tells only what people want to read orsee. It doesn’t tell people what they need toknow, which is the key responsibility of goodjournalism.

— Are the media accountable to the indi-vidual journalists? Yes, of course, and here iswhere the buck stops. In the end, it is theseindividual journalists who put their bylineson stories and stand in front of TV cameraswho are responsible for their own choices.Most journalists by far try their best to deliverfull, fair and accurate news. And they don’t doit for government, media owners, manage-ment or audiences. They do it for themselvesbecause they have high ethical standards.Ultimately, the media are accountable to theindividual journalist who knows in his or herheart and mind that journalism is a publictrust. And acts accordingly.

And who instills this notion of publictrust in the individual journalist? Who giveshim or her a sense of purpose, the fundamentalbelief that he or she must always strive to theutmost for full, fair, and accurate reporting?

We do. We – the teachers of the individ-ual journalists – along with fellow students inuniversities across the country. We must bearour share of the responsibility. We must seethat our students come out of school withstrong ethics and a sincere commitment ofpublic trust.

Biting criticisms understandably havebeen directed at the media for a rash of recent

Dean Richard Cole:University of North Carolina

A recent study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism painted a scary picture of U.S.media. It found that only 5% of cable news contained new informa-tion; the other 95% ofair time was filled byrepeating old facts . . .

Dean Doug Anderson:Pennsylvania State University

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high-profile ethical lapses, but such outcriesare hardly new.

The country’s journalists responded toheightened concerns about media ethics asearly as the 1920s when the American Societyof Newspaper Editors and the Society ofProfessional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi,drafted codes. Four books dealing withJournalism ethics were published during thesame decade. Then in the post-Watergateyears, even greater attention was given to ethicalissues. For the past quarter-century, mostreporting textbooks have devoted chapter-length treatment to media ethics. And for the past30 years, newspaper and broadcast conferenceshave been packed with sessions on ethics.

But the hits just keep coming.Contemporary editorial breakdowns

have, in turn, led to an avalanche of publicscorn being heaped on the media. As upset as readers might be about the outbreak intransgressions—since 1998, for example, therehave been plagiarism and fabrication scandalsat The Boston Globe, The New Republic, USA Today and The New York Times—thepublic outcry pales in comparison to howmany journalists have reacted.

In a lecture at the University of Oregonearlier this year, John Carroll, editor of the LosAngeles Times, spoke eloquently and power-fully of a culture in many of the nation’smainstream media newsrooms that pridesitself on fairness and credibility.

“Sometimes the code is not even writtendown, but it is deeply believed in,” Carrollsaid. “And, when violated, it is enforced withtribal ferocity.”

He referred to events at elite newspapersthat had led to what he labeled staff insurrec-tions: the multiple fabrications concocted bythe New York Times reporter Jayson Blair thatmanaged to clear—or evade—newsroom radarscreens and, before Carroll’s arrival at thenewspaper, the “secret partnership” that theLos Angeles Times had entered into with themanagement of the Staples Center to shareproceeds from ads in a special Sunday magazine

section on the opening of the downtown arena.The staffs of both newspapers were

enraged, enduring what they considered inter-nal betrayal but, worst of all, feeling that theirreaders had been betrayed. Staffs of eachnewspaper rose up; high-ranking editors andexecutives were dismissed.

Carroll wrote in the text of his speech:“What does all this say about newspaperethics? It says that certain beliefs are verydeeply held. It says that those who transgressagainst the reader will pay dearly.”

Journalism programs also have a duty:to their students, to the media outlets thosestudents one day will join, and to the readers,

viewers and listeners they one day will inform.The obligation: To instill in students

that, as journalists, they assume an awesomeresponsibility—to report with fairness, bal-ance, and context. The premise is simple: Betruthful, be ethical.

Many journalism schools, such as ourPenn State program, require majors to take astand-alone course in media ethics. Virtuallyall—if not all—schools also weave the discus-sion and application of ethical issuesthroughout their curricula.

The importance of ethics, fairness andcredibility has been emphasized in journalismschools for more than a quarter of a century.We continue to hammer the theme. Does thatmean that not a single student who sits in ourclass—even students who, at the time, soak upthe concepts like sponge—ever will violate adeeply rooted ethical principle? Of course not.But it does mean that we take our responsibil-ity seriously—just like virtually all mainstreammedia reporters and editors—and that we willcontinue to raise issues and drill the funda-mentals of fairness and responsibility.

Despite the rash of recent, much publi-cized transgressions, the mainstream medianever have been more committed to doinggood, responsible journalism. And the coun-try’s schools no doubt will continue—throughcase studies, introspective discussions, panels,lectures and programs—to nurture a strongsense of responsibility in minds, hearts andsouls of their students.

Here is an overview of what Medill hasbeen doing to try to help assure that the nextgeneration of journalists enters the professionwith a strong sense of ethical standards.

For decades, the subject of journalisticethics has been part of virtually every Medillclass, from basic writing and reporting forfreshmen to graduate-level seminars. Mostoften, it is discussed in relation to real-lifereporting, editing and writing assignmentsthat are a part of so many of the classes.

Also, for many years, Medill has had anacademic-integrity policy, which is given to allstudents when they enroll. It explains whyhigh ethical standards are essential in bothjournalism and the classroom, and it spellsout the consequences for students who arecaught cheating, plagiarizing, fabricating, fal-sifying records, etc. Undergraduates also aregiven a comprehensive pamphlet—preparedby the university—on plagiarism and how toavoid it.

All faculty members have been asked torefer to the academic-integrity policy in thesyllabus for each class, to be vigilant aboutchecking for plagiarism and other forms ofdishonesty, and to remind students about theconsequences of improper behavior.

Still, we noticed a spike in academic dis-honesty cases a few years ago. BetweenSeptember 2000 and June 2002, we had sixjournalism undergraduates found guilty of

dishonesty, more than in the previous threeyears combined. Some of the cases occurredwith journalism students taking classes inother areas of the University (such as English,history, political science) and some in journal-ism classes. The most common problem wasplagiarism (perhaps made easier by the inter-net) followed by cheating on tests and fabrica-tion of information.

The increase in cases prompted the facul-ty to review policies and procedures. In anattempt to make students even more aware ofthe academic-integrity policy, starting in thefall of 2002, we have required all of our incom-ing students as a condition of enrollment inMedill to sign a one-page “Medill HonorPledge,” saying in essence that they agree touphold the school’s academic-integrity policy.

Also in September 2002, we launched anannual 90-minute faculty-freshman meet-ing—moderated by the dean—during “NewStudent Week” to discuss journalistic ethics.This has sparked lively discussions, oftenevolving around ethical issues that have beenin the news. And starting next year, Medill willhold a series of “best practices”— in-servicetraining sessions for faculty to share ideasabout how to approach the teaching of ethicsin journalism classes. We’ve also initiated asummer reading program for incoming freshmen, in part tied to the theme of theethics of the journalist at work. Our new stu-dents will read “Naked in Baghdad” by AnneGarrels this summer and then meet in the

The premise is simple: Be truthful, be ethical.

The most common prob-lem was plagiarism(perhaps made easierby the internet) fol-lowed by cheating ontests and fabrication of information.

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fall to discuss the book, quite possibly, withthe author herself.

Will the honor pledge and the otherthings we do eliminate cheating? Of coursenot. Human nature being what it is, therealways will be people who are tempted to takeshort cuts. (In the two years since we haveinstituted the honor pledge, four Medillundergraduates who signed the pledge havebeen found guilty of academic-dishonesty—still too many, but a lot better than in the previous two years.)

As an educational institution, we need todo all that we can in a variety of ways to helpimbue in our students the notion that integri-ty and honesty are fundamental, core valuesin both journalism and the academy. We mustfocus constantly on journalism’s sense of mission—that it is a high calling and nobleprofession based on public trust. We have todo all we can to be certain that our studentsunderstand the fragile nature of journalisticcredibility and that as journalists, they need tostrive always to do the right work in the rightway for the right reasons.

Journalism education can’t solve themedia’s credibility problems overnight, if ever.But we can help assure that our graduatesenter the profession with a clear understand-ing of the critical importance of high ethicalstandards and sound principles so that theycan do their part to serve the public in thiscalling that is so vital to a democratic society.

Recent media scandals, the most promi-nent involving The New York Times and USAToday, diminish us all—journalism practi-tioners, professors and the general public.

When two major publications, facing themost critical of audiences and having at theirdisposal vast human and fiscal resources,founder on the shoals of arrogance and negli-

gence, we are left to ask, once more, “If goldrust, what shall iron do?”

Journalism schools must attend to theselapses of ethics by setting them in a historicalcontext, which shows students that the pressis, to paraphrase Emerson, the lengthenedshadow of a fallible person. Yet the scandalsshould not be dismissed: the consequences aregrave. Not only does an essential democraticinstitution lose credibility, but individualcareers are ruined, and the skepticism we prac-tice with duty and delight stings when it isturned on us.

Though we may seem to be preaching to the choir and voicing the obvious, our sermons generally are directed to youngermembers of the media chorus. They lack theexperience to analyze them or assess theirimpact. The brightest will see, sooner or later,that the lessons to be learned from theseepisodes are no different from those drawnfrom history, literature and drama: Realizethat each ethical decision involves thought,and often pain. And don’t let yourself get sweptup by competition, hubris or false valuestelegraphed by your bosses.

Looking at these current crises, journal-ism professors, without being prim and self-righteous, can point out that vanity, venality,laziness, cowardice and fear—as familiar innewsrooms as they are in hospitals or court-rooms—will not disappear. But at least studentscan be taught that standards do exist, even ifthey’re often more honored in the breach.

I recall a hoary anecdote about two farm-

ers meeting in town on a Saturday afternoon,in the days when farmers who had some extrachange could afford a drink—or four—at theend of a hard week. One farmer spotted hisneighbor reeling down the street and asked,“How are you, Bill?” And Bill, said, “To tellyou the truth, I’m drunk.” The neighbor said,“Is that right?” And Bill replied, “No, it ain’tright, but it is true.”

The latest scandals are not right, butthey truly happened. And we in the class-rooms are charged with asking, “Why?” Muchblame for the shoddy state of journalism mustbe placed on undemanding readers and view-ers and on corporate executives who know fullwell what they can get away with—and stillgrow rich and keep stockholders happy.Recent crises confirm a primary reason for theexistence of journalism schools—to teach stu-dents to recognize and debate the ethicaldilemmas certain to come in their profession-al lives. I contend that these latest embarrass-ments, coming as they do when the public ismost in need of news it can trust, aboutnational campaigns, the economy and inter-national war, point strongly to the need for,and the value of, journalism schools staffedwith academics with strong professional cre-dentials.

In every class, from beginning reportingto senior seminar, we are reminding studentsthat ethical behavior, painful though it maysometimes be, is not inhibiting; in fact, hold-ing to the highest standards reinforces jour-nalists’ opportunities to be aggressive repre-sentatives of readers and viewers. Moreover,accuracy and integrity protect our only stock-in-trade: credibility.

As we teach students the skills of report-ing and editing, and inspire students regard-ing the joys and challenges of journalism, wealso infuse that instruction with remindersthat they themselves will be the standard bear-ers for the institution.

From a study of dark and shamingepisodes, students will learn to stew, to weighoptions, to identify and articulate inherent

tensions—and they will be more likely to findthe best way. Moreover, they won’t take forgranted their professional mission—to delivernews, not entertainment, accurately, promptlyand fairly.

Ideally, after participating in analyses ofcurrent scandals, graduates of professionaljournalism schools will be able to distinguishbetween what’s right and what’s true and totake heart when they see that the twain oftendo meet.

Because of the Blair, Kelley and otherscandals, we have received inquiries from newsorganizations about what we're doing toinstill in would-be journalists rigorous profes-sional values and ethics.

There are three levels to our practices:instruction in ethics; strategies for detectingmalpractice (plagiarism, invention of sourcesand information); and punishment. However,our approaches to crime and punishmentdon't always work as we would like, mainlybecause students live in a culture that seemsto tolerate cheating. We have formidableproblems convincing students that there arepost-graduate consequences for those whoplagiarized, invented or cheated during col-lege. They believe their sins and punishmentsare private, buried in a university file. They'reright. News media recruiters base their hiringdecisions mainly on clips or tapes and aninterview. They are interested in productrather than in process. They seem not to bemuch interested in applicants' record of char-acter, integrity and professional behavior.

News media professions could help jour-nalism schools prevent and cure professionaldishonesty if they required applicants forinternships and jobs to send a form to theirdeans similar to the form many law schoolsrequire of their applicants. This one-page

Dean Jerry Brown:University of Montana

...we are reminding students that ethicalbehavior, painful thoughit may sometimes be, isnot inhibiting...

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form asks the dean to certify that the studentwas in good standing. It also asks whether thestudent had any disciplinary problems and, ifso, what they were.

The dean has to send this completedform to the law school as part of the student'sapplication materials. Note that applicantsmust get this form from the law school andsend it to the dean of their undergraduateschool. So applicants know that law schools

know about their behavior (as well as abouttheir GPA and LSAT score). Applicants foradmission know that law schools will takeinto account any disciplinary problems theymay have had.

If news media organizations such asASNE in cooperation with academic organiza-tions such as ASJMC could develop and adopta similar form, requiring applicants to theirenterprises to send the form to their deansand denying interviews until they received acompleted form from their deans, they wouldsend a powerful message to our students.

Employers should not automatically dis-miss an applicant from consideration for aninterview on the basis of this form. The infrac-tion may not be particularly serious. Or, ifserious, the student may have learned fromthe experience. Employers could discuss theincident in the interview, probing whetherdiscovery and punishment had had anyimpact on the student's character, integrityand sense of personal responsibility.

The Hearst Foundation may want tothink about requiring such a form of entrantsto its contests.

Students must understand that profes-

sional misconduct matters, not just in collegebut in life. It matters especially in professionswhose lifeblood is public credibility. In prepa-ration for a career of service to democratic life,great clips and tapes, a winning personalityand perhaps a prize in a Hearst contest shouldnot be as important to editors and news direc-tors as their ability to trust their reporters andwriters and to know that their trust is wellplaced. I worry that in the wake of Blair, Kelleyet al., editors and news directors will conducthigh-minded workshops, search their collec-tive souls and declaim against a woefullyflawed younger generation. They will launchethical jihads, issue ethical fatwas, then carryon as usual.

No one-page form will prevent or curedishonesty. But if journalism schools can tellstudents from the moment they enter collegethat their dean will have to submit this com-pleted form about their personal conduct toan employer and perhaps also as part of theirentry to a Hearst contest, they may pausebefore they knowingly plagiarize, fabricate orcheat. They may come to believe that crimedoes not pay.

There is no doubt that the credibility ofboth The New York Times and USA Today hasbeen damaged by the unethical behavior oftwo of their reporters. However, both wereeasy cases. No one defends inventing facts,plagiarizing the work of others, making upquotes from fictitious sources, or similarbehaviors. Indeed, since there is no debateabout such behaviors, it is hard to even saythese are ethical issues. It is troubling thatthese events occurred and that editors at thetwo papers allowed them to occur for so long.But they pose no real ethical dilemmas.

Far more troubling is the behavior ofThe News York Times, and to a greater or less-er extent all of the American media, in leading

the United States into war in Iraq over theissue of weapons of mass destruction. Only inlate May of 2004, 14 months after the warbegan, did the Times finally admit to its read-ers that its reporting on a supposed nationalsecurity threat from Iraq was seriously flawed.The Times offered to its readers an incom-plete apologia (buried on A-10) just before itsown courageous ombudsman, Daniel Okrent,published a highly acclaimed critical columnon the subject. The paper was also reacting tofurious criticism of its performance byMichael Massing in the New York Review ofBooks. Other journalists had also been bayingat the paper’s heels. The Times could nolonger ignore the issue of its own credibilityon this most important subject.

The performance of all the Americanmedia in reporting on an imminent threatfrom Iraq raises some challenging and gen-uine ethical issues. For example:

To what extent should a reporter rely onsources who refuse to be named, or who havean obvious conflict of interest, for informa-tion that could take our country to war? Atwhat point does going on the record count atall? Do readers have a right to know the iden-tities of those sources, and how they stand toprofit from American involvement?

Once journalists realize that those preciousanonymous sources have lied to them, or seri-ously misled them, what is their obligation totheir readers? Should they blow the cover ofthese sources? Re-report the stories and setthe record straight? Keep silent? Do anonymoussources who have lied to or misled journalistshave a right to maintain their anonymity?

To what extent should journalists givethe benefit of the doubt to the country’s elect-ed leaders as they take the country to war?How adversarial should the press be? Is it bet-ter to support the government and demon-strate patriotic impulses (by one definition),or is it more patriotic to challenge the govern-ment at every turn?

If a new medium chooses to challengethe government, how can it protect itself from potentially harmful charges of under-

mining the war effort or doing damage to thenational security, as specious as those chargesmay be?

How should a news organization sanc-tion reporters and editors who fail to demon-strate sufficient skepticism and even fairnessin the face of a government intent on execut-ing a particular policy? Put another way, howmuch can we expect of the very human jour-nalists who do their work in the face of enor-mous power and pressures?

What does the press’s willingness toaccept almost at face value the argument thatIraq posed a genuine national security threatto the U.S. say about the current relationshipbetween the media and the government in theUnited States? How far from Watergate havewe come, and why?

In my own view, the supine, credulousperformance of most journalists covering therun-up to the war in Iraq is the most seriousbreach of faith with the American people inmy 59 years. A debate over the admittedly con-troversial proposition would be lively indeed—and much more valuable than the fourteenparagraphs the Times offered its readers onMay 26, 2004. But the press is not good atanalyzing why it behaves as it does. It can cri-tique the performance of a Jayson Blair, but ithas yet to develop the means for critiquing itsown role in the process of government—or inthis case, the process of going to war. That isan ethical debate worth having.

Students must understandthat professional misconduct matters, not just in college but in life.

Dean David Rubin:Syracuse University

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...the supine, credulous performance of most journalists covering therun-up to the war in Iraq is the most seriousbreach of faith with theAmerican people...

SOME EDUCATIONAL THOUGHTS FOR JOURNALISM EDUCATORS

Journalism educators will find anintriguing challenge in the 2004 Springissue of the Carnegie Reporter –an articlethat makes a powerful argument for educating education writers.

The author is Richard Lee Colvin,director of the Hechinger Institute onEducation and the Media at ColumbiaUniversity’s Teachers College. Colvin sayswriting about education must become a “true specialty,” like writing about science, business, sports, technology andthe arts.

More reporters cover schoolsthese days, Colvin says, but “a wiseeditor told me once there’s a big difference between covering schoolsand covering education.”

“Many newspapers require schoolreporters to churn out multiple storieseach week, a process that results in superficial articles about school boardconflicts and other quick features thatprovide little context to help readersunderstand how schools work or the pressures they face,” Colvin says.

What most readers want, Colvin contends, are “stories that explain thecomplex environment of schools, storiesthat help in evaluating the performance ofschools and teachers.” A recent PublicAgenda survey showed readers are far lessinterested in school board politics andpersonalities, he noted.

Monitoring coverage across thecountry, Colvin says he sees “hearteningexamples of stories laying out complexissues in compelling ways.” But, headded, “there’s a lot I don’t see. Rarely do I come across solid explorations ofteaching and learning.

“What does good teaching look like?What should school leaders be doing toraise student achievement? What reallylies behind the achievement gap? Howcan testing help focus the efforts ofschools as well asstudents? How canit be that 28 percentof college freshmenoverall and 42 per-cent of those whoenroll in communitycolleges have to takeremedial classes? Aresuburban schools asgood as they’re tout-ed to be?”

Education writ-ers don’t have theauthoritat ivenessthat comes fromhaving a vast amountof knowledge, saysColvin’s article. Manystories seem naïve,with pat, superficialquotes from educa-tors or critics point-ing to a need for more money or smallerclasses.

A lot could be done to improve education journalism, says Colvin –“butwhat it all adds up to is that writing abouteducation has to become a true specialty.”It’s rare that education writers have for-mally studied education, he says, adding:

“And so far as I’ve been able to deter-mine, no journalism schools today haveclasses that deal specifically in all you’dhave to know to write in-depth storiesabout teaching and learning or the other

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central components of schooling. So, itwould be useful if journalism schools, per-haps in conjunction with educationschools, offered such classes.”

Colvin suggested that newspaperowners, publishersand editors couldpressure journalismschools to developsuch courses, anddemand that newhires as educationwriters have theskills and experi-ence. They can alsogive prominent play toeducation coverage,Colvin noted.

Many journalismeducators might citethe earlier days ofnewspapering, whenthere were no specialists on mostpapers. When storiespopped up, the cityeditor would scanthe city room to see

who was available. Any reporter orrewrite man could be called on to coverwhatever was needed.

“Put on your science hat,” the cityeditor might yell –and off the reporterwent. The same thing might happen forgovernment, arts, medical or political stories. No specialists –especially on short-handed smaller papers.

I recall an evening when a youngwire-service writer was sent out to covera play at a downtown theater. It turnedout to be the national premier, and result-

ed in a story printed around the country.A friend asked the writer how he was ableto turn in such a good piece. “I’m areporter –that’s my job,” was the onlyresponse.

Somehow it worked out in thosedays, and the readers were served.

It can also be argued that specializa-tion has its downsides. When writersknow the subjects too well they mightwrite “over the heads” of readers. Today’seducated journalists should have littleproblem communicating education –right?Most journalism is generalist for generalreaders –where would specialism end?

I remember a science writer whoinsisted every science story –night or day– be cleared with him before printing.That lasted only until the science writer’svacation.

Today, more and more news sto-ries seem to have legal angles. Shouldnewspapers hire legal writers, too?Papers clearly could use lawyers whocan write. But lawyers don’t comelooking for a job. Wonder why?

In a shop full of specialists, somemight ask, who’s going to cover fires, accidents, weather, etc. Who will writeobits – another specialist? When is a specialist not a specialist?

The term “investigative reporter”raised questions, too. Aren’t all reportersinvestigative reporters –and isn’t all journalism investigation?

Thomas EasthamVice PresidentThe Hearst Foundation

...no journalismschools today have classes that deal specifically in all

you’d have to know to write in-depth

stories about teachingand learning or the

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Nicholas KershbaumerPennsylvania State University

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Stephen H. SwartPennsylvania State University

Deanna GarciaNew Mexico State University

Linda Dawn RousseyPennsylvania State University

Mandie TrimbleUniversity of Alabama

Clark GoldbandHofstra University

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Anthony OrtizNew Mexico State University

Patricia BurkettUniversity of South Carolina

Danielle CrossUniversity of Montana

Risa AvilaArizona State University

Jennifer McLendonUniversity of North Carolina

Carlos TorresUniversity of Florida

Othello L. Richards, Jr.Brigham Young University

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Dana HackettUniversity of North Carolina

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Troy KinseyUniversity of SouthernCalifornia

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are eligible to participate in this program.

There were a total of 842students who entered all 13competitions. Of those, 518

writing entries, 153 photo portfolios and 171 broadcastnews tapes were submitted

for judging in the 2003-2004Hearst Journalism AwardsProgram. (Some studentsentered more than once).

The following is a list of the undergraduate

accredited schools of journalism throughout

the United States.

ALABAMA nAuburn UniversityUniversity of Alabama

ALASKA nUniversity of Alaska, AnchorageUniversity of Alaska, Fairbanks

ARIZONA nArizona State UniversityUniversity of Arizona

ARKANSAS nArkansas State UniversityUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville

CALIFORNIA nCalifornia State University, ChicoCalifornia State University, FullertonCalifornia State University, NorthridgeSan Francisco State UniversitySan Jose State UniversityUniversity of Southern California

COLORADO nColorado State UniversityUniversity of Colorado

CONNECTICUT nUniversity of Connecticut

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA nAmerican UniversityHoward University

FLORIDA nFlorida A & M UniversityFlorida International UniversityUniversity of FloridaUniversity of MiamiUniversity of South Florida

GEORGIA nUniversity of Georgia

HAWAII nUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa

ILLINOIS nEastern Illinois UniversityNorthwestern UniversitySouthern Illinois University, CarbondaleUniversity of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign

INDIANA nBall State UniversityIndiana University

IOWA nDrake UniversityIowa State UniversityUniversity of Iowa

KANSAS nKansas State UniversityUniversity of Kansas

KENTUCKY nUniversity of KentuckyMurray State UniversityWestern Kentucky University

LOUISIANA nGrambling State UniversityLouisiana State UniversityNicholls State UniversityNorthwestern State UniversitySouthern UniversityUniversity of Louisiana, Lafayette University of Louisiana, Monroe

MARYLAND nUniversity of Maryland

MICHIGAN nCentral Michigan UniversityMichigan State University

MINNESOTA nSt. Cloud State University University of Minnesota

MISSISSIPPI nJackson State UniversityUniversity of MississippiUniversity of Southern Mississippi

MISSOURI nUniversity of Missouri,Columbia

MONTANA nUniversity of Montana

NEBRASKA nUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln

NEVADA nUniversity of Nevada, Reno

NEW MEXICO nNew Mexico State University

NEW YORK nHofstra UniversityIona CollegeNew York UniversitySyracuse University

NORTH CAROLINA nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

OHIO nBowling Green State UniversityKent State UniversityOhio University

OKLAHOMA nOklahoma State UniversityUniversity of Oklahoma

OREGON nUniversity of Oregon

PENNSYLVANIA nPennsylvania State UniversityTemple University

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ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION

2003–2004 PARTICIPATING COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

SOUTH CAROLINA nUniversity of South CarolinaWinthrop University

SOUTH DAKOTA nSouth Dakota State UniversityUniversity of South Dakota

TENNESSEE nEast Tennessee State UniversityMiddle Tennessee State UniversityUniversity of Memphis University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaUniversity of Tennessee at KnoxvilleUniversity of Tennessee at Martin

TEXAS nAbilene Christian UniversityBaylor UniversityTexas A & M UniversityTexas Christian UniversityTexas State University, San MarcosTexas Tech UniversityUniversity of North TexasUniversity of Texas, Austin

UTAH nBrigham Young UniversityUniversity of Utah

VIRGINIA nHampton UniversityNorfolk State UniversityWashington & Lee University

WASHINGTON nUniversity of Washington

WEST VIRGINIA nMarshall UniversityWest Virginia University

WISCONSIN nMarquette UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin, Eau ClaireUniversity of Wisconsin, OshkoshUniversity of Wisconsin, River Falls

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William Randolph Hearst IIIPresident

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Robert M. Frehse, Jr.Foundation Vice-President and Executive Director

Thomas EasthamFoundation Vice-President and Western Director

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