Former Southeastern Channel news reporter-anchor Lauren Hawkins has won 1st Place as “Best College Television News Reporter in the South” out of 30 universities covering an eight-state region of the southeast U.S., including Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, South Caroline, Georgia, and Florida. The award was presented at the 2021 “Best of South Awards” given by the Southeast Journalism Conference (SEJC) in a virtual ceremony. Hawkins won for her news stories, “Double Homicide,” “Litter Gitter”, and “Hammond Airshow”. All three stories were produced by Hawkins as a news reporter for “Northshore News,” which also won 1st Place as the SEJC’s “Best College Television Newscast in the South”. Along with her 1st Place news reporter award, Hawkins also won 4th place in the “Best College Television Journalist in the South.”
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