Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Journalism students honored at Hoosier State Press Association
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Two editors of the Shield took home three awards from the Hoosier State Press Association Foundation’s Better Newspaper Contest on December 2. Jondi Schmitt, who graduates this month with a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism, and Julia Hunter, a senior print journalism major, each served as editor-in-chief of the Shield this semester, and each was honored at the conference. Hunter won a third-place award for “Wrestler defies disability,” a sports feature about USI freshman Mohammed Stahly, a member of the Eagles Wrestling Club who lost a leg in a bombing as a child in Somalia. He wrestles for the club without his prosthetic leg. Schmitt won an honorable mention for an interview with Ryan Lenz, an Associated Press reporter who was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. Lenz is the Evansville Bureau reporter for the AP and broke the story of the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the murder of her parents and siblings by American soldiers. Schmitt also won first place in the HSPA’s professional division for news reporting under deadline pressure for a story she wrote as an intern at the Ferdinand News. She is the first intern ever to have won first place in the professional division. “When the award was announced, the audience was reminded that it was an intern – not a former intern – but an intern who beat out all of the professional entries in that category,” said Patricia Ferrier, Shield advisor, in an email to colleagues. The story was about a car accident that killed three teenage girls, and Schmitt conducted multiple interviews in a short period of time. |
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