Two students named top collegiate journalists

Journalism students Amanda Hoffstrom and Alec Luhn were honored this week as two of the top 100 journalists on U.S. college campuses by UWIRE, an organization that supports college student media.

UWIRE chose Hoffstrom and Luhn for the top 100 out of a pool of more than 500 students from 132 schools based on their excellence in the journalism field.

"This is journalism at its most pure," says Ben French, vice president and general manager of UWIRE. "The 100 best student journalists in the country — hard workers, big thinkers and gifted storytellers — were nominated by their peers and advisers for their potential to shape the media industry in the years ahead."

Hoffstrom, of Plymouth, Minn., is the campus editor for The Daily Cardinal and is hailed by her co-workers as being fiercely dedicated to journalism as well as uniquely amiable and pleasant. Luhn, of Stoughton, Wis., is features editor for the rival campus newspaper The Badger Herald. His teacher, Katy Culver, characterizes him as being remarkably talented and completely unaware of his gift.