Kent Babb, a December 2004 graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, won first place in the 45th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Sports Writing competition.
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Babb will receive a $2,000 scholarship for his article, The Gift of Speed, which appeared in USC’s student magazine, The Garnet and Black. He also will compete in the National Writing Competition in San Francisco in May.
While a student at USC, Babb won a prestigious Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing internship at The Sporting News in St. Louis. He is currently employed as a sports writer at The State newspaper in Columbia.
The Journalism Awards Program is conducted under the auspices of accredited schools of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication and is fully funded and administered by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. It consists of six monthly writing competitions, three photojournalism competitions, and two radio and two television broadcast news competitions, with championship finals in all divisions.
More than 100 undergraduate accredited schools of journalism in the United States participate in the program, which awards more than $400,000 in scholarships and grants annually.
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