WNA Foundation announces 2024 collegiate student contest winners

2024 College BNC Tabloid section

The WNA Foundation on Friday, March 7 celebrated Wisconsin’s outstanding student journalists, announcing the winners of its 2024 collegiate Better Newspaper Contests during an awards ceremony held as part of the 2025 WNA Convention at the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison.

The ceremony highlighted all winning entries of the contest’s top prizes, General Excellence and Collegiate Journalist of the Year. The special tab section containing a list of the winners, photos of winning entries, judges’ comments and more may be accessed here.

The 2024 WNAF Collegiate Better Newspaper Contest featured 287 entries from 15 campus newspapers across 20 categories. The Clarion took home top honors in General Excellence. Complete listings of all the collegiate winners, judges’ comments and all winning submissions may be accessed here.

Collegiate Journalist of the Year went to Tomer Ronen of The Daily Cardinal at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A selection of photos of the collegiate award-winners may be accessed here.

Wisconsin Newspaper Association