IDS Enterprise Desk wins SPJ Student Journalists of the Year
The Indiana Daily Student Enterprise Desk received the Student Journalists of the Year award from the Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Friday, April 26, at the organization’s awards banquet held in Carmel, Indiana. The annual event honors professional and student media organizations across the state. There was a near-record number of entries for this year’s Best in Indiana Journalism contest.
The judge for the SJOY award said the IDS staff was deserving of the honor for a combination of investigative pieces and compelling journalism that highlighted issues impacting the Indiana University community.
“The student journalists covered a range of issues with deep reporting and strong storytelling,” the judge said.
Among the stories included with the SJOY nomination were, “Thousands of Native American remains, a legacy of offensive research and the effort to move forward,” ” ‘The church’s answer was hurting them,’: Former members of Bloomington’s High Rock Church allege spiritual abuse,” “How one school resource officer’s job has changed as school shootings capture national headline,” “Everybody deserves to get clean,” and “On the verge of everything: An IU ballerina who danced until the end.”
This is the sixth time in the last 10 years that the IDS has received SPJ’s state-wide Student Journalist of the Year honor. In that time, it’s gone four times to the staff and twice to individual reporters Cate Charron and Laurel Demkovich.
Idsnews.com also took top honors this year for the Best Journalism Website in the student category.
Two Media School students, Taylor Satoski and Ryan Costello, received $2,000 Scott Uecker College Scholarships from SPJ. And during the awards presentation, the IDS and IU NewsNet received another 15 individual awards for writing, photography, design, broadcast, and podcasting, and two Media School students won non-student media awards for their work with local organizations.
Radio Feature Story
Second place: Brookelyn Lambright, “The Cost to Bleed: How the ‘Tampon Tax’ is Worsening Period Poverty,” WFHB Community Radio
Student Breaking News Reporting
First place: Salome Cloteaux, Ruth Cronin, and Andrew Miller, “Separate peaceful gatherings over Israel-Palestine conflict end in clash on IU’s campus,” IDS
Student Non-Deadline News
Third place: Andrew Miller, “What is IU’s Climate Action Plan,” IDS
Student Sports Reporting
Second place: Will Foley, ” ‘A power renewed’: Cinzano’s return to the Little 500,” IDS
Student Column Writing
Third place: Dan Flick, “Football columns,” IDS
Student Sports Photography
Second place: Jacob Spudich, “IU Men’s Soccer team knocked out of NCAA tournament,” IDS
Student Feature Photography
Second place: Olivia Bianco, “Bruce Copple and Misty,” IDS
Student Page One or Cover Design
- First place: Lexi Lindenmayer, “IDS P1s,” IDS
- Second place: Cailin O’Malley, “IDS P1s,” IDS
Student Investigative Reporting
- First place: Carson TerBush, “Thousands of Native American remains, a legacy of offensive research and the effort to move forward,” IDS
- Third place: Caron TerBush, “‘Catastrophic’: The difficulty of addressing severe car crashes in Bloomington,” IDS
Student Coverage of Race and Diversity
Second place: Christy Avery, “IU student pushes for change in viral TikTok video after harassment,” IDS
Coverage of Social Justice Issues (Publication circulation below 10,000)
First place: Christina Avery and Haley Miller, “One Emergency from Catastrophe: Who Struggles with Food Insecurity?”, Limestone Post Magazine
Student Feature Story
First place: Natalie Fitzgibbons, ‘Everyone deserves to get clean,” IDS
Student Best Podcast
Will Foley, Matt Press, and Matt Sebree, “Payoff Podcast,” IDS
Student Television News Reporting
- Second place: Elizabeth DeSantis, “Sullivan Tornado,” IU NewsNet
- Third place: Ashton Hackman, “Domestic violence issue turns deadly,” IU NewsNet