Hamlet Fort, of Hartsville, Wins Society of Professional Journalists Regional Award
LEXINGTON, VA (04/04/2014)(readMedia)-- Hamlet Fort, of Hartsville, S.C., a junior English and journalism (mass communications) double major at Washington and Lee University, has won an award in the Society of Professional Journalists' (SPJ) regional Mark of Excellence college journalism competition.
The SPJ awards are for work published by college students during 2013 and were presented March 29 at SPJ's Region 2 conference at Georgetown University. The competition draws entries from colleges and universities across Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia and North Carolina.
Fort, a graduate of St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., won the award for general news reporting, small college division, for his story, "Better Food Helps Boost Hospitals' Bottom Line," published in the The (Nashville) Tennessean.
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