Fordham U. Graduate Is Named Winner of Student-Journalism Award From 'The Chronicle'

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Fordham U. graduate is named winner of student-journalism award from "The Chronicle"



The Chronicle has chosen Corinne Iozzio, a 2005 graduate of Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus, as the winner of its third annual David W. Miller Award for Student Journalists. The Chronicle also awarded an honorable mention to a student at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut.

The $2,000 prize was awarded to Ms. Iozzio, 23, for articles published in The Observer, the student newspaper on the Lincoln Center campus, which is located across West 62nd Street from the performing-arts complex in New York. Fordham's main campus is in Bronx, N.Y.

Ms. Iozzio, who grew up in a New Jersey suburb of New York, majored in communication and media studies at Fordham and is currently an intern at Weight Watchers magazine. She previously served internships at New York magazine and Seventeen.

Interviewed by telephone at her parents' house in Ridgewood, N.J., where she is living while she looks for a full-time job at a magazine, Ms. Iozzio acknowledged the difficulty in getting started in that business. But, she said, "if there was anything else I wanted to do, I'd do it."

Ms. Iozzio won the Miller Award for three articles that appeared in the 2004-5 academic year in The Observer. The first article described the controversy provoked on Roman Catholic campuses like Fordham by the Cardinal Newman Society, a conservative activist group that seeks to push the colleges to uphold Catholic traditions by, for example, barring campus speakers who support abortion rights and banning theatrical productions of The Vagina Monologues.

The second article related how some professors at Fordham responded to a campaign by the society to publicize their political donations. The third article told of Fordham students who called themselves conservative and said they had been intimidated in class by leftist professors.

The honorable mention went to Josh Nathan-Kazis, a junior with a multidisciplinary major in European studies at Wesleyan. Mr. Nathan-Kazis, 20, was recognized for an article that profiled Walid Shoebat, a Palestinian Muslim who became an evangelical Christian and left behind his life as a Palestinian revolutionary to speak out against the Palestinian cause and in support of Israel. The article appeared in New Voices, a magazine produced by American Jewish college students.

The Miller Award commemorates David W. Miller, a senior writer at The Chronicle who in 2002 was killed at the age of 35 by a drunken driver.

With the award, The Chronicle seeks to pay tribute to Mr. Miller's first-rate journalism, insatiable curiosity about people and ideas, and talent and love for great writing. The Chronicle also hopes to identify and recognize future generations of reporters who show promise of reaching the same level of professional achievement as Mr. Miller attained.

About 170 students applied for the award this year. The applicants hailed from 38 states and the District of Columbia. Six were from Canada, and others were from Austria, Bulgaria, and India.

Undergraduates interested in applying for the 2006 award, based on articles published in the current academic year, should submit their applications by June 1, 2006. Information on applying appears on The Chronicle's Web site, at http://chronicle.com/help/milleraward.htm

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