Student Media Brings Home Statewide Journalism Awards

NC State Student Media brought home several awards from the North Carolina College Media Association’s annual conference on Feb. 24.

The conference, held this year at High Point University, focused on storytelling as a major theme. And NC State’s student-led media outlets were recognized for their innovative ways of storytelling and journalism.

Four print outlets – Agromeck, Nubian Message, Technician and Windhover – all won best-in-show awards. These awards recognize overall excellence for the publications. 

Staff members from all four publications also won 23 individual awards for specific categories. 

Here are the awards NC State brought home:

Agromeck 

Best of Show

Yearbook Photography

First Place: Hallie Walker 

Second Place: Versace Prew 

Third Place: Jermaine Hudson 

Yearbook Inside Spread Design

First Place: Jermaine Hudson

Second Place: Krishna Patel

Yearbook Student Life Copy 

First Place: Jermaine Hudson

Second Place: Krishna Patel 

Yearbook Sports Copy 

First Place: Griffin Cunningham

Second Place: Anne Nemeth

Agromeck is also an Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker finalist and a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown finalist, both to be announced in March.

Nubian Message

Newspaper Best of Show for its two issues “Empowering Voices” and “Focus On Us” 

Newspaper Photography

First Place: Kaela Belingon

Newspaper Single or Two-Page Design Category

Second Place: Leah Tierney and Abigail Harris

Newspaper Opinion Writing 

Honorable Mention: Alianna Kendall-Brooks 

Technician

Best of Show: Online News

Best of Show: Newspaper

Newspaper Illustration/Graphic 

First Place: Max Alsop

Newspaper Cartoon 

First Place: Max Alsop

Honorable Mention: Lucy Osborn

Newspaper Feature Writing

Honorable Mention: Joel Beebe

Newspaper News Writing

Third Place: Jameson Wolf

Newspaper Opinion Writing

Third Place: Skye Crawford 

Honorable Mention: Justin Welch

Newspaper Sports Writing

Third Place: Ethan Bakogiannis

Newspaper Single or Two-Page Design

Third Place: Ellie Bruno

Newspaper Photography

Honorable Mention: Hallie Walker

Windhover

Literary Magazine Best of Show

Literary Magazine Photography/Art

Second Place: CJ Murphy

NC State Student Media serves as the learning lab for journalism and media training, putting the “Think And Do” mantra to work in everything we do. Our outlets – Agromeck, Nubian Message, Roundabout, Technician, Windhover and WKNC 88.1 FM HD-1/HD-2 – teach students journalism, photography, design, broadcast, and life skills they can use in whatever field they choose. 
To join Student Media, visit our website.