Alex Kraus '07 wins national reporting award

Alex Kraus, a junior in the print journalism sequence, is one of nine winners of the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.

Kraus will travel to Japan and South Korea for 12 days this summer. The competition is sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation.

The competition attracted entries from nearly every state in the union. It was judged by a panel of journalism professionals and educators.

Other universities represented by the winners include Northwestern, Yale, American, Indiana and Illinois.