Henry wins award at SEJC journalism conference
Madisyn Henry is among Mississippi State student journalists who earned top honors at the 2025 Southeast Journalism Conference (SEJC), which MSU hosted for the first time in university history.
Henry, a senior communication major, received third place in the Research category.
MSU secured four institutional awards: first place for Best Radio Station, second place for Best TV Station, third place for Best Public Service Journalism and third place for Video Newscast, in addition to multiple individual awards.
“The opportunity to host SEJC made MSU’s success even more special, as students showcased their talents on their home campus,” said SEJC President Josh Foreman, an MSU communication instructor who organized this year’s event.
“When Terry Likes, the head of MSU’s Department of Communication, came to the university in 2019, he decided to pursue hosting SEJC. We both love the organization, and MSU has the resources and facilities to put on a great conference,” Foreman continued. “I hope students had fun. We get too caught up in panels and schedules sometimes and forget fun is not something that needs to be scheduled or mandated. If you give students a little time and space together, it will happen. I feel SEJC 2025 was a huge success, with many people saying it was one of the best SEJCs ever.”
MSU competed against two hundred students from universities of Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee, as well as approximately twenty other universities from across the Southeast. Students heard from sixteen journalism professionals, including MSU alumni now working in journalism, reporters from The New York Times and The Hill, a news anchor from WLBT-TV, the nation’s top college football reporter and the senior editor for the Minnesota Vikings, for discussions about the changing media landscape.
