ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú students win three national SPJ Mark of Excellence awards
First-place honors include campus reporting, feature writing, and sports writing
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú students win three national SPJ Mark of Excellence awards
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University students won three national awards and two finalists awards in the annual sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists.
“Our students are doing important, thoughtful reporting on the communities they cover during a time of heightened mistrust of news media,” said Rosemary Pennington, coordinator of journalism at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University. “The journalism faculty is proud of all they have accomplished and we're thrilled their work has been recognized in this way by SPJ."
Picking up first-place honors were:
- Campus Reporting – for stories by Sean Scott of The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Student about cultural diversity in ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú performing groups and other columns
- Feature Writing (Large 10,000+) – Lily Wahl and Taylor Stumbaugh of The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Student for “ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú …. Merged”
- Sports Writing (Large 10,000+) – Jack Schmelzinger of The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Student for “Ryland Zaborowski doesn’t let autism stop him from crushing baseballs”
Students selected as finalists were:
- Best Use of Multimedia – Ryann Beaschler on Medium.com that was part of a multimedia journalism class taught by Rosemary Pennington
- Cultural Criticism – Lily Wahl of The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Student for her literary reviews
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú won one national MOE award in 2019 – a reported essay titled “Ái (爱) to Love and Ái (挨) to Suffer” by Erin Glynn ’20.