Student journalist winners honoured at the Emerge Media Awards

The Emerge Media Awards were made on March 22, showcasing the achievements of student journalists from across Canada. Emerge was launched in 2015 as the first and only national post-secondary media awards program in Canada.

The awards, administered by the University of Guelph-Humber, recognize the best writing, editing, videography, audio, digital design, communications and public relations done at the post-secondary level. This year, the EMAs attracted more than 250 submissions from universities and colleges from coast to coast. The judging is conducted by an independent panel of industry representatives, including editors, broadcasters, producers, and other media professionals. [Disclosure: I was one of the judges.]

2018 winners

Winners of the 2018 awards are:

• Written Word: Josie Kao - University of Toronto - "Data In A Foreign Land"
• Audio Storytelling: Trent Erickson, Will Gordon, Cameron Honey, Aviva Jacob, Danielle McCreadie, Nermeen Ramadan, Jayde Tynes - University of Kings College - "What If The Halifax Explosion Never Happened?"
• Videography: Caitlin Taylor, Jennifer Ackerman, Janelle Blakley, Josh Diaz - University of Regina - "Severed"
• Multimedia Production: Jolene Rudisuela, Amy Simpson, Lexi Wright - Mount Royal University - "Closing Midfield"
• Photography: Cody Bonner - Mohawk College - "From Above"
• Public Relations: Jason Lau - McMaster University - "Canada is the world"
• Design-Print: Elham Numan, Pearl Cao, Piyumi Konara, Keith Cheng - University of Toronto - "The Varsity Fall Magazine: The Futures Issue"
• Design-Online: Seher Asaf, Francesca Bianco, Sophie Gray, Yusheng Cai, Haley Lewis, Emma Loy, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Sharon Nadeem,Andrew Seal, Taranjit Singh, Alex Migdal and Anya Zoledziowski - University of British Columbia - Tém:éxw: "Stories Of Land"

Emerge magazine from Guelph/Humber wins feature mag of year in Pinnacle Awards

Emerge 2014, a multiplatform project of U of Guelph/Humber media studies graduating students has been named feature magazine of the year in the U.S. college Pinnacle Awards. 

The project includes a glossy magazine, with editorial and branded content, a one-day media conference and associated websites, a photography exhibition and a social media strategy. 

The Pinnacles recognize excellence in student produced college media". They were presented by the College Media Association at its national convention in Philadelphia. 

The project won six Pinnacles for 

• Best Magazine Contents Page/Spread Design (1st)
• Best Magazine Entertainment Page/Spread Design (2nd)
• Best Online Main Page (2nd)
• Best Website of the Year (Four-year program) (3rd)
• Best Ad Supplement/Special Section (3rd)
• Best Social Media Main Page (3rd)

In addition, it won best of show awards from the Associated Collegiate Press for

• Feature magazine
• Website (small school)

Guelph-Humber media studies students are multiple finalists in Pinnacle awards

Fourth year students in the Guelph-Humber media studies program have been named finalists in seven categories of the Pinnacle College Media Awards. It was for their project Emerge, a multiplatform, multidiscipline project, including a glossy magazine with editorial and branded content, a one-day media conference, related websites, a photography exhibition and a social media strategy.

The winners will be announced October 29 at the National College Media Convention in Philadelphia. The Pinnacle Awards are presented by the College Media Association and is open to organizations and individuals producing student work in print, broadcast and online.   

Winnipeg college teams unveil their concept magazines at a trade fair March 30

The team behind Black Tutu (l to r)
Katie Madziak, Lauren Parsons, Coco Brecht and Emily Doer

Always good to see bright, young people making magazines. A week Friday (March 30), creative communications students from Red River College  in Winnipeg are holding a magazine trade fair to show the community the magazine prototypes they have created. According to a post on the site ChrisD.ca, there is one called Black Tutu, a magazine for young women, another called duckface (a women's tech magazine), Hot Mic, about the Winnipeg hip-hop scene and a fan magazine devoted to the Winnipeg Jets. The event is at the Roblin Centre on Princess Street and runs from noon to 4 p.m.

“The fair itself is always a lot of fun,” said Emily Doer, a member of the four-person group behind the young women’s publication Black Tutu Magazine. “Groups work together to make their magazine concept come to life. There are always a lot of prizes, and a chance to meet the creative team...We have some really innovative and trendy magazine concepts.”

Ryerson Review of Journalism wins six student magazine awards

Nice to see, again, that the Ryerson Review of Journalism has picked up six awards (and accompanying judges' accolades) at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication student magazine contest. Among the winners (reported by proud faculty member Tim Falconer) were:

•  Winter Issue 2011
• First place single issue print (editor Liam Casey)
• First place, consumer magazine article: investigation and analysis "Suicide Notes" (Liam Casey)
• First place, consumer magazine article "140 Characters in Search of a Story" (Ashley Csanady)
• Second place, consumer magazine article "Not all Smurfs and Sunshine" (Matthew Scianitti)
• Summer 2011
• Third place, consumer magazine article: first person "War Torn" (Vesna Plazacic)
• Third place, consumer magazine article: feature "Vice Goes Global"

At risk of repeating myself, if the RRJ didn't exist to report on the business, we'd be compelled to invent it. Nice to see that recognized elsewhere. (Disclosure; I'm a subscriber.)