2025 Student Journalism Winner

About the Winners:

Cate Latimer, editor-in-chief and president at The Brown Daily Herald, shared background about the student journalist winners:

“At The Herald, we are students first and journalists second,” Latimer said. “But on Dec. 13, despite our fear and horror at the atrocity unfolding on our campus, we put our reporting first.” 

“Senior Editor Paul Hudes worked tirelessly while sheltering just a few hundred yards from where the shooting occurred. Reporter Emily Feil wrote live updates while moving between buildings to shelter-in-place. Senior Editor Hadley Carr carefully approached students who were relocated to a secured athletic center for interviews,” she added. “A core team of over a dozen reporters, web designers, editors, videographers and photographers provided our community with round-the-clock updates for a week following the shooting.”

Comments From the Judges:

“Impressive job of scrambling to inform the campus community in a crisis situation, including capturing the human-interest side of what it’s like to be trapped in a shelter-in-place with little access to information. The staff brought a ton of personnel to bear on near round-the-clock updates as information trickled out. The retrospective piece (‘How the Providence community came together in the wake of the mass shooting at Brown’) is especially nicely illustrated and presented.”

“This piece was an excellent example of clear, breaking news journalism done well and told with heart and detail. The format in which it was presented also offered something distinct and clear to the reader. I appreciated the multiple perspectives, not just focusing on students but on staff and the wider community. It offered what we so often lack in news pieces which are deeply feeling stories. I was moved by these stories and thought it brought to life a harrowing campus event without overly glorifying the shooter.”

Photo credits: Hadley Carr, Annika Singh