Bluffton University’s student driven-media organization “The Witmarsum” hosted a journalism competition for high school students this winter.

Individual categories included feature story, hard news story, sports story, opinion and news feature photography.

First, second and third places in each individual category were awarded $75, $50 and $25, respectively.

Jonathan Schriner of Bluffton, was awarded first place in the hard news category. Schriner will be honored at the competition award ceremony on Wednesday, Jan. 29.