Rolling Stone winners from Newhouse

Two reporters in NEW 305, the advanced reporting class in Newspaper, have won $2,500 and first place in Rolling Stone's annual college journalism contest. The prize was announced last week.

The winners: Julianne Pepitone and Allison Baker, for their 3,000-word story on Jeffrey Guerin, a local man severely wounded in Afghanistan when the Humvee he was in drove over a roadside bomb. The story chronicled how Guerin has dealt with his injuries; he lost most of his sight in the explosion.

The reporting was for classwork that appeared in The Student Voice last spring.

Julianne and Allison were in the two Newspaper reporting classes that semester that worked on the special project. Every year, for the last several years, The Student Voice has "given" its last edition to the reporting classes of Prof. Steve Davis and Prof. John Hatcher. Allie was in Hatcher's class and Pepitone was in Davis' class. Last spring's project was called "War Surrounds Us."

Prof. Davis' editing class worked on the stories with the reporters, and on the production with photographers and designers from the classes of Sung Park and Sean McNaughton.

We'll be doing the project again this year. The topic hasn't been decided.

The winning work will be posted sometime this week under "Student Work" on the Newhouse Web site. Once there, you'll see an option to pick from Newspaper, Broadcast, etc.

Congratulations to Allie and Julianne.