With strong efforts in each of five monthly competitions, Penn State has claimed first place in the yearlong Intercollegiate Writing Competition conducted as part of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards program, often referred to as “the Pulitzers of college journalism.”
Maggie Messitt, an award-winning journalist and newsroom leader who served as the first national director of Report for America, has been selected to join the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications as the Norman Eberly Professor of Practice and editorial director of the Bellisario Media Center.