Schmidt wins Brook Baker award
Junior Samantha Schmidt was named Brook Baker Journalist of the Year, and IU students and media wont other top honors at the Indiana Collegiate Press Association awards luncheon April 11 at IUPUI.
Schmidt has served as investigations desk editor at the Indiana Daily Student for two semesters, leading reporting efforts on sexual assault and campus diversity.
The award honors Baker, a Vincennes University student who was murdered in 1997. The criteria for the award cite Baker’s strong commitment to reporting and service, especially investigative reporting. She was a “committed, enthusiastic and talented renaissance journalist at Vincennes University’s Trailerblazer paper,” according to the ICPA.
IU student media was honored at the ICPA awards, taking 113 individual awards overall, including 14 online, 15 yearbook, 20 magazine, 22 advertising and 42 newspaper awards. The Indiana Daily Student won Division I paper of the year, online publication of the year and advertising publication of the year. Inside Magazine won magazine of the year.