Matt DiSanto, a PSU junior majoring in journalism, is the winner of the Rick Starr Award for 2021. Matt, who is managing editor of OnwardState.com, a PSU student-run news blog that is the most-followed student media outlet in the country, directs a staff of 60 students who cover all aspects of the Penn State experience.Continue reading “Matt DiSanto: Our 2021 Award Winner”
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Meet our 2020 Starr Award Winners
Between 2020 and 2030, Penn State’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications will give awards annually to students in the school who best exemplify Rick Starr’s approach to sports journalism. We are delighted that the college has named two 2020 award winners: Shane Connelly (B.A., Digital Print Journalism, 2021) Shane is the first winner of theContinue reading “Meet our 2020 Starr Award Winners”
Remembering Rick
My wife Cathy and I met Rick in 1974 when we were all undergraduate students at Penn State’s main campus in University Park, Pa. Rick and I lived on the tenth floor of a concrete box known as Pinchot Hall in the East Halls dorm complex. We roomed together my sophomore year (Rick’s senior year),Continue reading “Remembering Rick”
The Rick Starr Award 