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HEARST Hearst is one of the nation’s largest diversified media, information and services companies with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; 30 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, Calif., which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Albany Times Union, more than 300 magazines around the world including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper’s BAZAAR and Car and Driver; and investments in emerging digital and video companies such as Complex, BuzzFeed, VICE and AwesomenessTV. The Hearst Journalism Awards Program was founded in 1960 to provide support, encouragement, and assistance to journalism education at the college and university level. The pro- gram awards scholarships to students for outstanding performance in college-level journalism, with matching grants to the students’ schools. The 57th annual program offering up to $500,000 in awards, consists of five monthly writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, one radio competi- tion, two television competitions, and four multimedia competitions – with championship finals in all divisions. Participation in the program is open to undergraduate journalism majors currently enrolled in ACEJMC – accredited domestic universities. An exception to the journalism major rule is made for students entering the photojournalism competitions. Entrants must be actively involved in campus media and must have published articles, photographs or produced newscasts or multimedia pieces that can be submitted in our writing, photojournalism, broadcast news and/or multimedia competitions. The William Randolph Hearst Foundation was established by its namesake, publisher William Randolph Hearst, in 1948 under California non-profit laws, exclusively for educational and charitable purposes. Since then, The Hearst Foundations have contributed more than one billion dollars in the areas of education, health care, social services, and the arts throughout the country. Hearst Tower: Heart’s Global Headquarters

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HEARST

Hearst is one of the nation’s largest

diversified media, information and services

companies with more than 360 businesses.

Its major interests include ownership in

cable television networks such as A&E,

HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; 30

television stations such as WCVB-TV in

Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento,

Calif., which reach a combined 19 percent

of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the

Houston Chronicle, San Francisco

Chronicle and Albany Times Union, more

than 300 magazines around the world

including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper’s

BAZAAR and Car and Driver; and

investments in emerging digital and video

companies such as Complex, BuzzFeed,

VICE and AwesomenessTV.

The Hearst Journalism Awards Program

was founded in 1960 to provide support,

encouragement, and assistance to journalism education at the college and university level. The pro-

gram awards scholarships to students for outstanding performance in college-level journalism, with

matching grants to the students’ schools. The 57th annual program offering up to $500,000 in awards,

consists of five monthly writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, one radio competi-

tion, two television competitions, and four multimedia competitions – with championship finals in all

divisions.

Participation in the program is open to undergraduate journalism majors currently enrolled in

ACEJMC – accredited domestic universities. An exception to the journalism major rule is made for

students entering the photojournalism competitions. Entrants must be actively involved in campus

media and must have published articles, photographs or produced newscasts or multimedia pieces that

can be submitted in our writing, photojournalism, broadcast news and/or multimedia competitions.

The William Randolph Hearst Foundation was established by its namesake, publisher William

Randolph Hearst, in 1948 under California non-profit laws, exclusively for educational and charitable

purposes. Since then, The Hearst Foundations have contributed more than one billion dollars in the

areas of education, health care, social services, and the arts throughout the country.

Hearst Tower: Heart’s Global Headquarters