From Our Archive
Feb. 1, 2001
Scripps Howard Foundation names winners of "Most Valuable Staffer" newspaper competition
CINCINNATI -- The Scripps Howard
Foundation has named the five winners of its annual “Most
Valuable Staffer” competition, which was open to U.S. college
newspaper staff members.
The winners
are:
Megan Manfull
, senior, managing editor, The Daily Iowan, University of
Iowa, Iowa City.
Sheila B. Lalwani, senior, world
desk editor, Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University,
Bloomington.
Angela
Cason, senior, editor, The Tech
Talk, Louisiana Tech University,
Ruston.
Jennie Kennedy, senior, managing
editor, The Daily Texan, University of
Texas-Austin.
Randy
Striegel, senior, managing editor, The Orion,
California State University, Chico.
Each of the
winners will receive a $5,000 scholarship and an
all-expenses paid trip to New York for the National
College Media Convention, co-sponsored by the Associated
Collegiate Press and College Media Advisers, Feb. 15-18.
The college newspapers where the students work also will
receive a $5,000 grant.
The competition is sponsored by
the Scripps Howard Foundation in cooperation with College
Media Advisers.
“Scripps Howard Foundation established
this competition to reward college newspaper staffers who have
distinguished themselves through their hard work and
extraordinary efforts, " said Judith G. Clabes, president
and CEO of the foundation. “These five individuals have won
the respect and high praise of their colleagues and college
advisers and have earned recognition as 'Most Valuable
Staffers.'"
Chris Carroll, president of College Media
Advisers and media adviser at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, said, “The annual 'Most Valuable Staffer' award
provides an excellent opportunity to recognize the
achievements of some of the country's most promising
journalism students. As always, this year's recipients
are among the best of the best."
The competition was
open to staffers of any college newspaper in the U.S. that
publishes at least weekly during the regular school
year. Nominees had to be enrolled as full-time students
in the college or university. They were not required to
be journalism or communications majors, and could work in any
department of the newspaper. The competition was judged
by Fran Kentling, administrative editor of The Wichita Eagle;
Jack Willis, student awards committee chairman for College
Media Advisers; and Dan K. Thomasson, retired vice
president/news for Scripps Howard newspapers and retired
editor of Scripps Howard News
Service.
College Media Advisers, with more than 700 members,
coast to coast, represents the people who advise the nation’s
collegiate newspapers, yearbooks, magazines and electronic
media.
Dedicated to excellence in journalism, the
Scripps Howard Foundation is a leader in industry efforts in
journalism education, scholarships, internships, literacy,
minority recruitment/development and First Amendment causes.
Contact: Vickie Martin, Scripps Howard Foundation, 513-977-3034, vlmartin@scripps.com