UWIRE, a membership organization for college student media, announced yesterday the inaugural UWIRE 100, which honors the nation’s top 100 collegiate journalists. Kent State junior Christopher Sharron, an editorial cartoonist with the Daily Kent Stater, and Stow native, was honored as one of the UWIRE 100, selected from more than 500 nominations submitted by students and educators at 132 schools.

The announcement of the UWIRE 100 is the culmination of a three month national search. The selected students excelled in a particular journalism medium, have a proven commitment to the journalism field and have the potential to help revolutionize their industry. The UWIRE 100 students hail from 66 different schools, ranging from small liberal arts colleges to large state universities.

“This is journalism at its most pure,” said Ben French, VP and General Manager of UWIRE.  “These are 100 best student journalists in the country – hard workers, big thinkers and gifted storytellers – nominated by their peers and advisers for their potential to shape the media industry in the years ahead.“

UWIRE is operated by CBS College Sports Network, a CBS Company.  UWIRE features the first online career networking community dedicated exclusively to college journalists and aspiring media professionals.  The site enables young media talent to interact, share user-generated content and deliver their work to a national audience through UWIRE’s Syndication Service, which distributes more than 2,500 news articles each week to a variety of national content partners, including CBS News, New York Times, Billboard and U.S. News & World Report.

A full list of the UWIRE 100 is available at UWIRE.com.

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