john cox

contributing writer

John Cox's resume reads like a lifetime of achievement awards. He is 23. He won the Hearst Journalism Award for in-depth writing in The Independent Florida Alligator called "Student Death Still Unsolved." He received the Scripps Howard Foundation's Top-Ten Student Journalist $10,000 award; the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Student Magazine Contest; the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation Scholar $5,000 Award; the Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling Media Award for the Alligator series, "Out of Luck;" and the Hearst Journalism Awards Certificate of Special Merit in Feature and Profile Writing and in June was named National Champion in the William Randolph Hearst Writing Competition.