Kent Babb, a fall
2004 print journalism graduate, brought home two of the top
awards in the Hearst National Writing Competition.
Babb's article “The Gift
of Speed” won "Best Article of the Year" in
the overall competition and second place in the "Best
in Student Writing Competition."
Babb received a total of $7,000 in scholarships for the
article which
appeared in the Garnet and Black, the student magazine
of the University of South Carolina.
While a student at USC, Babb won a prestigious Dow
Jones Newspaper Fund editing internship at The
Sporting News in St. Louis. (Read
more.)
Babb is currently employed as a sports writer at The
State in Columbia.
The Journalism Awards Program is conducted under the auspices
of accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism
and Mass Communication, and fully funded and administered
by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. It consists of
six monthly writing competitions, three photojournalism competitions,
two radio and two television broadcast news competitions,
with championship finals in all divisions.
Currently, more than 100 undergraduate accredited schools
of journalism in the United States are participating in the
program, which awards more than $400,000 in scholarships
and grants annually. |
