Wartburg College students won 14 awards at the six-state Midwest Journalism Conference in Bloomington, Minn., March 29.

Wartburg student media took nine Eric Sevareid Awards from the Northwest Broadcast News Association and five awards in the Upper Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences student production contest.

Journalists from Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and the Dakotas competed for the honors. The Sevareid Awards are a tribute to the pioneering CBS newscaster, who was a North Dakota native and University of Minnesota graduate.

Wartburg’s Knight Vision, which began doing live broadcasts of college sports events this academic year, took a first-place Sevareid Award for Best Sportscasting and an Award of Merit for Best Sportscast/Program.

Other Sevareid Award of Merit recipients were:

• Soft Feature — Benjamin Hoppenworth, 2013 graduate, Waterloo
• General Reporting (2) — Ashley Davis, junior, Columbus Junction
• Sports Reporting — Shelby Granath; 2013 graduate; Rockford, Ill.
• Broadcast Writing — Jacqueline Schutte, senior, Luana
• Cable Newscast — Good Morning Waverly staff
• Documentary/Special (“60 Seconds to Change”) — Hoppenworth; Victoria Joachims, Cedar Falls; Alexandra Madole, Dallas Center; Megan Nuehring, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; and Michael Posivio, Iowa City (all 2013 graduates)

  The recipients of the NATAS awards were:

• General Assignment (light news) — Hoppenworth
• General Assignment (serious news) — Danny Housholder, senior, West Des Moines
• Commercials (2) —Simon Sager, senior, Riverside; Sager and Bethany McAtee, senior, Coggon
• Long-Form Fiction (“Chasing Neptune”) — Housholder; Sager; Micah Jensen, junior, Beaver Dam, Wis.; Justin Szykowny, senior, Palos Heights, Ill.; Ta’Mone Williams, senior, Waterloo; Adam Azzaro, senior, Chicago; Danielle Bilidt, junior, Austin, Minn.; Kofi Manteaw, junior, Johnston; Armand Piecuch, senior, Holland, Mich.; Austen Scholten, senior, Rockton, Ill.; Hunter Gray, junior, Clarksville; Karina Devine, sophomore, Apple Valley, Minn.; Martin Hyatte, junior, Rockford, Ill.; Ted Leuck, senior, Orion, Ill.; Gretch Skellenger, senior, Lake Mills; La’Kyiah Hart, 2013 graduate, Waterloo; Ian Bee, 2013 graduate, Monona.