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More than a hundred students and advisers from across Indiana gathered on April 6 for the annual Indiana Collegiate Press Association conference and awards lunch in IU Bloomington’s Indiana Memorial Union. This year’s speakers included Tim Evans, IndyStar investigations editor; Cheryl Owsley Jackson, IU Media School senior visiting professor; Adam Wren, Politico national politics reporter; Jill Bond, Bloomington Herald-Times editor and Saul Lemerond, Hanover College assistant professor.

There were more than 800 entries in the contest from Indiana student media organizations. Media professionals from across the country served as judges and students receiving honors were recognized at the awards lunch in the IMU Tudor Room.

IU student media received five of ICPA’s top overall awards:

• Website of the Year, idsnews.com
• Division I Newspaper of the Year, Indiana Daily Student
• Yearbook of the Year, Arbutus
• Advertising Publication of the Year, Indiana Daily Student
• Brook Baker Indiana Collegiate Press Association Journalist of the Year, Marissa Meador

The IDS and Arbutus staffers earned another 57 individual awards.

“Our students have a long history of producing outstanding work,” Newsroom Adviser Ruth Witmer said. “The students are totally committed to their role as storytellers and public servants and it’s great to see them receive recognition for their extraordinary effort.”

Brook Baker Indiana Collegiate Journalist of the Year Award

Junior Marissa Meador was named Brook Baker Indiana Collegiate Journalist of the Year. This is the seventh year in a row the award has gone to an IU student. Meador was selected for her empathetic and clear reporting on both difficult and light topics, including:

• “’The church’s answer was hurting them’: Former members of High Rock Church allege spiritual abuse” 
• “The first season” 
• “City Council candidate David Wolfe Bender is running in District 6, residents say he doesn’t live there” 
• “IU faculty, students call for Whitten to acknowledge Palestinian suffering” 
• “Opinion: Support local journalism, before it’s too late” 
• “Indiana has always had a weak veto power – so why are overrides increasingly common?”

Advertising

The IDS won first place in Advertising. It earned seven additional recognitions.

Best Display Ad

First place: Britta Hess, “Axecalibur”

Best House Ad

First place: Casey Luthman, “IDS Events Calendar”

Best Electronic Display Ad

• First place: Grace Richardson, “Axecalibur” online banner
• Second place: IDS staff, “Giving”

Best Self-Promotional Campaign

• First place: Britta Hess, “Ad sales promo campaign”
• Second place: IDS staff, “Housing Fair”

Best General Media Kit/Marketing Package

First place: IDS staff, “IDS Media Kit”

Newspaper

The IDS won first place in Division I Newspaper. It also earned 23 additional recognitions.

Best Single Issue

• First place: IDS staff, April 23, 2023 issue
• Second place: IDS staff, Dec. 7, 2023 issue

Best Themed Issue

Second place: IDS staff, “Orienter”

Best News Story

• First place: Marissa Meador, “’The church’s answer was hurting them’: Former members of High Rock Church allege spiritual abuse”
• Third place: Christy Avery, “IU student pushes for change in viral TikTok after harassment in residence hall”

Best Feature Story

Second place: Natalie Fitzgibbons, “’Everybody deserves to get clean’: One Bloomington woman’s journey to recovery”

Best Sports New Story

Second place: Matt Press, Daniel Flick, and Dalton James, “IU fires Tom Allen”

Best Sports Feature Story

Second place: Marissa Meador, “The first season”

Best Staff Editorial/Opinion Column

Third place: Helen Rummel, “We’re still here. We still don’t know what happens next”

Best Entertainment Column

• First place: Danny William, “College, ‘Quantum Leap’ and the art of being okay”
• Second place: Jared Quigg, “I know that it’s delicate: Taylor Swift and me”

Best Sports Column

Second place: Daniel Flick, “Indiana football had no choice but to fire head coach Tom Allen”

Best Front Page Design

First place: Cailin O’Malley, Feb. 9, 2023 issue

Best Inside Page Design

First place: Cailin O’Malley, “’There’s no numbness’”

Best Special Section Front/Cover

• First place: Jack Donnelly, “2023 Little 500 Guide”
• Second place: Lexi Lindenmayer, “2023 Big Ten Sports Guide”

Best Sports Photography

First place: Jacob Spudich, “IU men’s soccer knocked out of NCAA Tournament”

Best Photo Essay/Picture Story

First place: Olivia Bianco, “Hoosier Hysteria”

Best Informational Graphic

Second place: IDS staff, “City council election guide”

Best Illustration

• First place: Juliette Albert, “Fall in love with your new home”
• Third place: Juliette Albert, “You don’t have to live in the real world”

Best Cartoon

• First place: Juliette Albert, “Spring, summer fashion”
• Third place: Juliette Albert, “Hollywood hates women”

Online

The IDS placed first for Website of the Year. It also earned 17 recognitions.

Best Breaking News Reporting Online

First place: Salomé Cloteaux and Marissa Meador, “IU denied its room reservation. The Palestine Solidarity Committee hosted its event anyway”

Best News Story Online

First place: Emma Herwehe, “Months after the tragic mass shooting in Greenwood, witnesses continue battling with trauma”

Best Feature Story Online

• First place: Salomé Cloteaux, “On the verge of everything: An IU ballerina who danced until the end”
• Second place: Taylor Satoski, “From a basement to The Bluebird: Street Pennies break up after 2 years”

Best Sports Story Online

First place: Will Foley, “A power renewed: Cinzano’s return to Little 500”

Best Indepth Story Online

First place: Carson Terbush, “’Catastrophic’: The difficulty of addressing severe car crashes in Bloomington”

Best Continuous Coverage of a Single Story Online

Second place: IDS staff, “IU’s response to the Israel-Hamas War”

Best Staff Editorial/Opinion Column Online

• First place: Marissa Meador, “Support local journalism, before it’s too late”
• Second place: Salomé Cloteaux, “From the editor: How the IDS reports on the Israel-Hamas war”

Best Email Newsletter

Second place: Nora Barth, “The Daily Rundown”

Best Podcast

• Second place: Will Foley, Matt Press, and Matt Sebree, “The Payoff Podcast”
• Third place: Evan Gerike, Bradley Hohulin, and Emma Pawlitz, “Five Banner Banter”

Best Use of Social Media

Second place: IDS staff, Idsnews Social

Best Slideshow

Third place: Madison Herman, Rahul Suresh Ubale, and Zuzanna Kukawska, “Granfalloon Fest 2023”

Best Special Presentation/Buildout

• First place: Carson TerBush, “NAGPRA at IU”
• Third place: Andrew Miller, Rahul Suresh Ubale, and Erica Abernathy, “What is in IU’s Climate Action Plan?”

Best Animation or Interactive Graphic

First place: Carson TerBush, “Monroe County crash map”

Yearbook

Arbutus won first place in Yearbook of the Year. It also earned nine additional recognitions.

Best Student Life Spread

First place: Lauren Ulrich and Avery Anthill, “She dreams of Afghanistan”

Best Sports Spread

First place: Alex Paul and Izzy Myszak, “Hoosier Hysteria”

Best Organizations Spread

• First place: Mia Hilkowitz, Izzy Myszak, and Michael Claycamp, “IU Dance Marathon”
• Second place: Britan Shriner, “100 years of influence”

Best Overall Design

First place: Izzy Myszak and Arbutus staff, “Arbutus 2023”

Best Cover Design

Third place: Izzy Myszak, “Arbutus 2023”

Best Sports Photography

• First place: Alex Paul, “Trophy Kiss”
• Second place: Jaclyn Morganroth, “Pole vaulter”

Best Feature Photography

First place: Taylor Satoski, “Street Pennies”