Andrew Zuckerman took an 18th-place tie in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program. Eighty-three students from 49 schools of journalism and communication from across the nation participated in this content. The Hearst Awards are often considered the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism.

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 writing competitions, three photojournalism competitions, two radio and two television broadcast news competitions, and one multimedia competition with championship finals in all divisions (except multimedia).