{"id":219658,"date":"2025-08-05T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=219658"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:55:31","slug":"spj-hawaii-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/05\/spj-hawaii-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards sweep: <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> students win every student category at state journalism awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_219659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219659\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-journalism-spj-hawaii-2025-awards.jpg\" alt=\"people standing in the front the room with awards\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-journalism-spj-hawaii-2025-awards.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-journalism-spj-hawaii-2025-awards-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-journalism-spj-hawaii-2025-awards-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Associate Professor Youjeong Kim, Alani Calderon, Lili Hurd, Tanner Haworth, Nevan-Isaiah Pak, Emma Davidson, Emma Caires and Alyssa Francesca Salcedo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa students swept all 24 student awards at the annual Excellence in Journalism awards, hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiispj.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists<\/a> (<abbr>SPJ<\/abbr>), July 30.<\/p>\n<p>Headlining the group were the following first-place winners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Student Investigative Journalism in Any Media&#8212;Lili Hurd (<a href=\"https:\/\/sci.manoa.hawaii.edu\/programs\/journalism\/\">journalism<\/a> major)<\/li>\n<li>Student Breaking News in Any Media&#8212;Emma Davidson (journalism major)<\/li>\n<li>Student Feature Journalism in Any Media&#8212;Flynn Hamlin (2024 journalism graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Student Sports Journalism in Any Media&#8212;Justin Gardner (2024 journalism graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Student Journalism Featuring Video&#8212;Lili Hurd<\/li>\n<li>Student Journalism Featuring Photography&#8212;Kiersten Morgan (exploratory major)<\/li>\n<li>Student Journalism Featuring Audio&#8212;Alyssa Francesca Salcedo (2025 journalism graduate)<\/li>\n<li>Student Editorial\/Opinion Writing&#8212;Emma Caires (2025 journalism graduate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Associate Professor Youjeong Kim from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sci.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">School of Communication and Information<\/a> in <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Manoa\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.manoa.hawaii.edu\">College of Social Sciences<\/a> and faculty sponsor of the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <abbr>SPJ<\/abbr> Student Chapter, said, &ldquo;It\u2019s incredibly rewarding to see our students recognized for their hard work. They\u2019re not just learning how to report the truth\u2014they\u2019re out there doing it, with heart and a strong sense of responsibility. Their work makes a real difference in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, and I\u2019m proud to support them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Other students who won awards included majors in <a href=\"https:\/\/sci.manoa.hawaii.edu\/programs\/communication\/\">communication<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">anthropology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/cinema\/\">cinematic arts<\/a>. Suah Cho, an incoming <abbr title=\"Doctor of Philosophy\">PhD<\/abbr> student in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cis\/\">communication and information sciences<\/a> program, won three awards for stories that were published in <em>Civil Beat<\/em>, where she interned in 2024. Many faculty members and alumni also earned awards in professional categories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiispj.org\/\">See the entire awards list at the Society of Professional Journalists website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The awards were presented at a ceremony on July 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":219659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[137,301,661,692,1466,1623,741,1026,660,9],"class_list":["post-219658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-anthropology","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-communications","tag-journalism","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-school-of-cinematic-arts","tag-school-of-communications","tag-social-science","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/manoa-journalism-spj-hawaii-2025-awards.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219687,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219658\/revisions\/219687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}