Media School students, organizations win 4 regional SPJ awards
Media School students and organizations won four categories of Society of Professional Journalists Region 5 Mark of Excellence Awards 2024 and were declared finalists in various others.
SPJ’s Region 5 consists of universities from Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Respective winners from the 12 SPJ regions will compete at the national level.
Winners
Feature Writing (Large): Isabella Vesperini, “A doctor doubted a Black woman’s pain. Four years after her death, an IU student mourns his mom”
Personality Profile: Nicole Blevins, “We deserve to stay’: Dreamer faces uncertainty as election approaches”
Corbin Gwaltney Award for Best All-Around Student Newspaper (Large): Indiana Daily Student
Best All-Around Television Newscast: IU NewsNet Newscast
Finalists
Breaking News Reporting (Large): Indiana Daily Student, Dunn Meadow encampment
In-Depth Reporting (Large): Natalie Fitzgibbons, “‘You just don’t know.’ After their abortions, three Indiana women hope election will restore rights”
In-Depth Reporting (Large): Marissa Meador, “‘Neverending’: Sexual abuse persists in the IU Jacobs School of Music”