This week Robert Faturechi, a former student reporter for UCLA’s student newspaper the Daily Bruin (now a UCLA graduate and reporter for the Seattle Times) was awarded the Thomas L. Phillips Collegiate Award this week from the Institute on Political Journalism (IPJ) for his piece on the influences of donations on college admission decisions. Faturechi received the award for excellence in collegiate reporting and for “demonstrating an understanding of the basic ideas that support a free society, including freedom of the press and freedom of speech,” according to the IPJ. UNC-Chapel Hill’s newspaper the Tar Heel, and the College of William and Mary’s newspaper the Virginia Informer, won second and third place.

Read Faturechi’s piece in the Daily Bruin
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