ECU Student Media recognized with state, national awards
East Carolina University Student Media received 15 state awards at the annual North Carolina College Media Association (NCCMA) Conference held Feb. 23 at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro.
The East Carolinian (TEC) newspaper and website and Expressions minority magazine each won Best of Show honors from the NCCMA.
TEC’s affiliated website, theeastcarolinian.com, was among five schools to share Best of Show/ Online News top honors. Other recipients included UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State, Appalachian State, and UNC Charlotte. This is the sixth consecutive year that TEC has earned Best of Show honors in North Carolina.
Several TEC students claimed individual honors:
- Matt Prensky, editor-in-chief — first place in News Writing and honorable mention for Opinion Writing
- Thomas Weybrecht — honorable mention in Photography
- Lauren Bright — honorable mention in Digital Storytelling
- Mary Lo — honorable mention in Feature Writing
- Dylan Johnson — honorable mention in Sports Writing
Expressions shared the honor with Elon University for Best of Show as a publication. Among the individual honors:
- A. Brinson — first place in Non-Fiction
- Erin Flynn — first place in Two-Page Spread
- Alonza Mitchell — first place in Photo/Art
- Mary-Beth Drummond — second place in Two-Page Spread
- Cameron Green — honorable mention in Non-Fiction
The Buccaneer yearbook earned two honorable mention awards for its final edition. Buccaneer student reporter Summer Reynolds won two honorable mention awards. Buccaneer will be replaced by a new graduation magazine called Anchors Away starting in May.
“Student Media is a team sport,” said John Harvey, director of ECU Student Media. “We strive to put together great teams that go out and produce wonderful newspaper, magazine and radio content that serves the East Carolina and Greenville communities. To have the North Carolina College Media Association recognize so many of our media and students speaks volumes about our commitment to educating and growing Student Media.”
These awards add to the growing list of Student Media awards for 2018-19. The Pinnacle Awards, a national recognition, honored student photographer Gregory Arnold with a Best Photo honorable mention in the fall. Additionally, Rebel 60, an art and literary publication, won the 2018 Pacemaker Award competition in the fall and has been awarded the 2019 Silver Crown Award for Print Literary-Art Magazines. The award was announced by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at the national College Media Association Convention in New York City. Emily Brinley is the student editor in chief for Rebel 60.
“Our Student Media students and student leaders, current and past, deserve a tremendous amount of credit for the time commitment and passion to succeed,” said Harvey.
Student Media, rebranded as a collective group to Pirate Media 1, is composed of The East Carolinian student-run newspaper, WZMB-91.3 FM student-run radio station, the Advertising and Marketing Agency, and the Magazine Division, which is made up of Expressions minority magazine, Hook magazine, Rebel art and literary magazine, and Anchors Away (replacing Buccaneer), a new graduation magazine.
For more information, contact Harvey at 252-328-9234.
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Contact: John Harvey, director of ECU Student Media, harveyj@ecu.edu
Telephone: 252-328-9234