The top 10 winners in college enterprise reporting were announced in February as part of the 52nd annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program, in which 106 undergraduate journalism programs at colleges and universities across the nation are eligible to participate.
First Place was awarded to Ellen Hirst, a senior from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Hirst will receive a $2,600 scholarship for her winning article titled “Turned Away” published in Bolivia Reborn. UNL will receive a matching grant, as do the journalism departments of all scholarship winners. Ellen also qualifies for the National Writing Championship, which takes place in San Francisco in June.
UNL received second place in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition behind Arizona State University.
BOLIVIA REBORN
In spring 2010, journalism students and professors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln researched Bolivia's relations with the U.S. and the social change in motion now that the Indigenous majority has achieved fair representation in politics.
They traveled to Bolivia in June 2010 to report on the cultural and political evolution there. Student reporters spent the following four months to write the stories about a post-colonial country that is fighting to be recognized on the world stage, and how Indigenous Bolivians are reshaping, reinventing and refounding their nation for themselves, their children and their future.
The "Bolivia reborn" project was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Hirst’s winning article, “Turned Away”:
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/6hx