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2020 Hellinger Award Winner- Cameron Hurst
The 60th annual Mark Hellinger Award was presented to Cameron Hurst.
Hurst graduated in December 2019 with majors in journalism and music.
During his undergraduate career, he worked as an athletics communications intern for St. Bonaventure Athletics and as a summer writing intern for the Office of Marketing & Communications. He also covered the women’s basketball program for the Olean Times Herald.
As a staffer for TAPinto Greater Olean, a local news site directed by Dr. Rich Lee and lecturer Anne Lee, Hurst covered a wide range of stories, notably the local impact of the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. In October 2019, he coordinated and co-moderated a live studio debate between candidates vying to replace Catharine Young as the next state senator from the 57th Senate district in partnership with the Jandoli Institute and SBU-TV.
Hurst spent two summers as a marketing intern at the Robert H. Jackson Center in his hometown of Jamestown, New York. While there, he embarked on a research project on the life of late-U.S. Sen. Charles Goodell, curating and designing an exhibition and producing a documentary on his role as one of the first sitting senators to voice opposition to the Vietnam War.