Wartburg College

Students from Wartburg College's Department of Journalism & Communication were recognized at an awards banquet during the 2026 Midwest Journalism Conference on April 11 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

A Wartburg College student has received a $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace grant to help build a reliable power source and install water tanks in the village of Chigodora in Zimbabwe this summer. Bladley Zimunya, a sophomore majoring in economics and business administration, grew up in Chigodora and understands how hard it is on the community of 10,000 to survive with just a single community water well that depends on an unreliable national electric grid. His project will install a solar-powered water pumping system and three 5,000-liter reservoir tanks, as well as training for two local technicians.

Ali Parkhurst, editor-in-chief of The Wartburg Trumpet, won a Best of SNO award for her recent story "Rewa Chababo: Leaving a Mark." This marks Parkhurst's fifth Best of SNO award and first for The Wartburg Trumpet.

More than 15 Wartburg College students and recent graduates were recently recognized for their work with student media at the annual Iowa College Media Association Awards. In all, the students brought home 41 awards for work in print, video and audio. In addition to the individual achievements, KWAR, the college's student-run radio station, received its third straight Overall Audio Excellence Award.

Twenty-three Wartburg College students and recent graduates were recognized for their work with student media at the annual Iowa College Media Association Awards.

Twenty-nine Wartburg College students and recent graduates were recognized for their work with student media at the annual Iowa College Media Association Awards. KWAR, the student-run radio station, received the Audio Excellence of the Year Award.

Senior Henry Hahn is the recipient of the 2023 College AV All-Star from the Upper Midwest Emmy Foundation.

Thirty-three Wartburg College students and recent graduates were recognized for their work with student media at the annual Iowa College Media Association awards.

A team of three Wartburg College students placed second in the 28th annual Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition.

Seventeen Wartburg College students and recent graduates were honored recently at the Iowa Broadcast News Association annual conference.

Wartburg College student media have won 12 first-place awards from the Society for Collegiate Journalists, an organization that recognizes achievement in journalism and help establish relationships between students and members of the profession.

Wartburg College's Knight Vision News won first place in Overall Excellence for Student TV for the 2019 broadcasting year, awarded by the Iowa Broadcast News Association at its annual convention June 27 in Pella.

Wartburg College's student-run newspaper, The Trumpet, earned eighth place in the Best of Show Newspaper General Excellence category, and staff writers and photographers took home nine individual awards at the Associated College Press: Best of the Midwest Conference in Minneapolis.

Two Wartburg College students swept the three scholarships awarded by the Iowa Broadcast News Association during its annual convention April 13 in Johnston. In addition to the scholarships, several students and recent graduates also were honored for their work in campus media.

A group of Wartburg students will head to Fort Worth, Texas, this weekend to share their plans for a food truck that specializes in Puerto Rican fare and giving back.