KU students win sports journalism awards

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Awards

KU journalism students win two more Hearst awards

The Hearst Journalism Awards Program announced top prizes for two Kansas journalism students on Monday, the fifth and sixth University Daily Kansan staff members to win awards from the national program this year.

Rustin Dodd, Overland Park senior, won first place in sports writing for “For the love of the game,” his April 28, 2008, article about former Kansas basketball players and their efforts to continue their professional basketball careers outside the NBA.

“It was a lot of work tracking the players down,” Dodd said. “It’s cool that a judge somewhere out there saw that and liked it.”

Mark Dent, Overland Park senior, won fifth place in sports writing for his Jan. 23, 2008, article “Athletes with children.” It focused on the challenges faced by athletes who double as parents and the regulations that prevent them from receiving certain financial assistance.

Ted Frederickson, professor of journalism, said Dodd’s and Dent’s articles were outstanding because they covered issues rather than events.

“This was a championship year for both KU basketball and the Kansan sportswriters who covered KU sports,” Frederickson said. “And Rustin and Mark were two of our best sports writers.”

The School of Journalism is in first place in the intercollegiate competition for outstanding college journalism this year, said Yasi Haerizadeh, program assistant with the Hearst awards.

Personality/profile and spot news are the final two writing categories left to be judged in the overall competition.

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