Ryerson Review of Journalism wins 6 awards in AEJMC student magazine contest

The Ryerson Review of Journalism has won six awards in the student magazine awards of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC).

This year’s competition attracted 232 entries from 23 universities from the United States and Canada. Judges for the contest, which included 13 categories, were publishers, editors and writers for consumer and specialized business magazines. The Ryerson winners were:

• First place, single issue of an ongoing print magazine (editorial) -- Spring 2009 RRJ, edited by Marit Mitchell
  
• First place, consumer magazine article (people) -- Deconstructing Barry, by Ashley Walters
• First place, consumer magazine article (investigation and analysis) -- One Powerful Union Tactic, by Carolyn Morris
• Second place, consumer magazine article (investigation and analysis) -- Hot Topic, by Eve Tobolka
• Second place, consumer magazine article (feature) -- The Long Goodbye, by Greg Hudson
• Third place, consumer magazine article (feature) -- Pissed Off, by Greg Harris

The awards, which will be presented in August at the AEJMC convention in Boston.