Student reporters and accomplished sports journalists who were judges in this year’s The Drake Group Education Fund Student Journalism Prize for Investigative Reporting on Intercollegiate Athletics participate in a wide-ranging conversation about college sports and the role of investigative journalism. Student journalists from Northwestern University and Quinnipiac University, winners of this year’s sports journalism contest speak about their prize-winning reporting. Winning entries include stories about Northwestern University football player hazing and the suspension of their prominent coach, the questionable firing of the Quinnipiac women’s lacrosse coach for playing an injured athlete, and unsafe and unfair conditions, including a culture of body shaming, experienced by Northwestern University cheerleaders.
