They are considered the Pulitzer Prizes for college journalism, JOVRNALISM was awarded first place for the Hearst Awards for the Reflections of the L.A. Uprising project.

The announcement stated that there were “69 entries from 42 schools submitted in the fourth multimedia competition of the academic year.”

First Place has been awarded to the team from the University of Southern California: Myrah Sarwar, Grace Yuan Gao, Halle Hazzard, Marta Hernani Fernandez, Rachel Kisela, Hannu Kivimaki, Charisma Madarang, Jesse Mechanic, Lajja Mistry, Jacqueline Pinedo, Sam Schwartz, Mallika Singh, Vaishnavi Vasudevan and Randy Vazquez.

In addition to the national recognition, the team “will receive a $3,000 scholarship for the winning multimedia piece.”

USC Annenberg wrote up a short article about the win.