Pulliam intern honored for writing

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Claire Wiseman, a 2012 participant in the HSPA Foun­dation’s Eugene S. Pulliam internship program, was one of eight final­ists to compete in a prestigious writing competition.

The Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s Inter­­collegiate Writing Com­petition National Cham­pionship attracts entrants from around the country.

Wiseman, a 2013 Indiana University jour­nalism graduate, received a cash prize as a finalist, and IU, which ended the overall competition in seventh place, will receive a medallion and matching grant.

IU senior Charlie Scudder won the top prize.

Finalists completed three reporting assign­ments over the course of four days at the 53rd annual event in San Francisco, with three top newspaper editors judging their work.

“The Hearst awards are far and away the most prestigious honors in collegiate journalism, and they are accurately re­fer­red to as the Pulitzers of college journalism,” said IU journalism professor of practice Tom French, who won a real Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for feature writing. He has taught and coached IU’s Hearst entrants for the past four years.

Wiseman worked at the Connorsville News-Examiner during her Indiana internship. She started as an intern at The Dallas Morning News in May.