UFCJC receives second place overall in the 2025-26 Hearst Journalism Awards Intercollegiate Competition
The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) placed second overall in the 2025-26 Hearst Journalism Awards Intercollegiate Competition. The College had the second highest number of accumulated points from the year-long competitions in writing, photojournalism, broadcast (audio, television, podcast) and multimedia. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was first and Syracuse University was third.
The Intercollegiate winners were determined from all 1,353 entries submitted across the 14 competitions during the academic year.
The final UFCJC Intercollegiate Competition standings are:
· Overall: Second Place and a $10,000 award
· Writing: First Place and a $10,000 award
· Multimedia: Third Place and a $2,500 award
· Broadcast: Fourth Place
The final UFCJC results for the 2025-26 Hearst Journalism Intercollegiate Competition category awards are:
· Television Features – Juan Carlos Chaoi, third place
· Television News – Bernardo Montas, first place; Juan Carlos Chaoi, fourth place
· Multimedia Narrative Storytelling – Ashleigh Lucas, third place; Nicole Burman, ninth place
· Multimedia Innovative Storytelling – Nicole Borman, sixth place; Kairi Lowery, eighth place
· Multimedia Enterprise – Nicole Borman, fourth place; Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, 15th place
· Photojournalism News and Features – Matthew Lewis, 17th place
· Feature Writing – Siena Duncan, ninth place; Alissa Gary, tie for 17th place
· Sports Writing – Jessica Garcete, third place; Noah White, 11th place
· Personality/Profile – Tarryn Nichols, third place; Lauren Brensel, sixth place
· Team/Individual Investigative Reporting – Lee Ann Anderson and Kai Johnson, third place; Matthew Cuppelli, fourth place
· Audio News/Features – Sofia Zarran, fourth place
Four UFCJC students have qualified to advance to the 2025-26 Hearst Journalism National Championships. Two will compete in the Broadcast competition, one in the Writing competition and one in the Multimedia contest in San Francisco from May 30 – June 5.
The Journalism Awards Program, now in its 66th year, added broadcast journalism competitions in 1988. In addition to the broadcast competitions, the awards program includes four writing, two photojournalism and four multimedia contests. The program offers up to $700,000 in scholarships, matching grants and stipends and is open to accredited undergraduate journalism programs from 104 within the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The College also placed second in the overall competition in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and in fourth place in 2024. For previous year’s winners, visit jou.ufl.edu/awards.
Category: Alumni News, College News, Student Awards, Student News
Tagged: 2025-26 Hearst Journalism Awards
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