The purest form of journalism — “filled with energy and idealism” and “unpolluted by corporate culture or market trends” — is written and broadcast by students, says UWire, a news service for campus publications.

With that in mind, UWire has named the “100 best student journalists in the country” in an unranked list. Selected from 500 nominees, they represent 66 institutions, including small private colleges and large public universities. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has the most students — five — on the list.

“Taken collectively,” UWire says on its Web site, “the 100 tell us something about the state of media today, and show us the faces who will be telling us the news in years to come.”

Among the honorees is a former Chronicle intern, Stu Woo, a graduating senior at Brown University. —Sara Lipka