Western Kentucky University’s Allie Schallert won the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s 2023 Multimedia National Championship this week in San Francisco.
Schallert, a May photojournalism graduate from New Windsor, New York, was one of five finalists who participated for the multimedia championship June 2-7. Schallert, WKU’s 16th Hearst individual national champion, received a $10,000 award.
Kennedy Gott, a December graduate from Bowling Green, finished third in the Photojournalism National Championship and received a $5,000 award. Gott was one of six photojournalism finalists.
WKU students have won 16 Hearst individual national championships since 1985 — photojournalism in 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014 and 2016; multimedia in 2015 and 2023; writing in 1985; and radio news in 2006.
Often called “The Pulitzers of college journalism,” the Hearst Journalism Awards Program includes two photojournalism, five writing, one audio, two television, and four multimedia competitions offering up to $700,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends; 105 member universities of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication with accredited undergraduate journalism programs are eligible to participate in the Hearst competitions.
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