NC State Student Media wins big at state-wide contest

[lead]NC State Student Media took home 23 North Carolina College Media Association 2018 contest awards, which were announced at the organization’s statewide conference on Saturday, Feb. 23.[/lead]

Twenty students representing Agromeck, Nubian Message, Technician and Windhover, and three professional staff members attended the annual conference hosted at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro. The group networked with peers from across the state and enjoyed training sessions, panel discussions, publication critiques and a keynote address from Alicia Bell of Free Press’s News Voices: North Carolina project. Technician Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Carter presented a session on covering student government with The A&T Register Editor Zila Sanchez, while advisers Martha Collins and Ellen Meder provided flash critiques for other publications.

NCCMA is a statewide organization with the goal of providing support and training for college media student staff members and advisers for both public and private institutions and is run out of the N.C. Scholastic Media Association offices in UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Media and Journalism. The annual NCCMA conference is one of several professional development opportunities NC State Student Media offers all current staff members at no personal cost.

[major-link url=”https://nccma.unc.edu/files/2019/02/Winners2018.pdf” target=”_blank”]The full list of winning entries can be found on NCCMA’s website.[/major-link]

Agromeck: Best of Show Yearbook

• 1st place Student Life Copy: Megan Wong for “Snow School”
• 2nd place Student Life Copy: Katie Tart for “Make a Splash”
• 3rd place Inside Spread: Ponni Theetharappan for “Snow School”
• 1st place Sports Writing: Madison Earp for “Ruckin’ Rugby”
• 2nd place Sports Writing: Kenton Gibbs for “Playing the Field”
• 1st place Photography: Nick Faulkner for “City of Oaks Ablaze”
• Honorable Mention Photography:Kaydee Gawlik for “Jeffery Morales and Reed”

Nubian Message: Best of Show Newspaper, Large School

• Honorable Mention Design Spread: Keilah Davis and Anahzsa Jones for “Pan-Af”
• 1st place Illustration: Kaydee Gawlik for “Healthy is the New Sexy”
• 3rd place Cartoon: Anna Lee and Casey Johnson for “Spend Two Days Giving Back…”
• 3rd place News Writing: Kennysha Woods for “Study Reveals Food and Housing Insecurity at NC State”
• Honorable Mention Opinion writing: Kevin Moye for “Getting rid of affirmative action hurts all minorities”

Technician: Best of Show Online News, Large School

• 3rd place Photography: Nick Faulkner for “Men’s Basketball vs. Duke”
• 2nd place Illustration: Nick Weaver for “Prevention Recovery”
• 2nd place Digital Storytelling: Mary Dare Martin, Minh Pham, Alicia Thomas and Daniel Gilliam for “A day in the life of Chancellor Woodson”
• 2nd place Cartoon: Sindy Huang for “Applications”
• 2nd place Sports Writing: Alec Sawyer for “Avent’s legacy continues to grow in Raleigh”
• 3rd place Sports Writing: Andrew Schnittker for “The making of a winner: Drive for success fuels NC State’s Kevin Keatts”
• 2nd place Opinion Writing: Noah Jabusch for “50-50 male-to-female ratio is only the first step to gender equality”

Windhover:

• Honorable Mention Design: Clara May and Anna Schecterson for “Awake & Lost in Thought”