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The Miami Student wins nine first-place awards for collegiate journalistic work

Reporters from The Miami Student took home nine first-place and five finalist awards for journalism work in the Mark of Excellence (MOE) regional competition. In total, 15 Student reporters won recognition.

Presented by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the MOE awards aim to “[honor] the best in student journalism,” by recognizing print, radio, television and online collegiate journalism.

Patricia Gallagher Newberry, area coordinator of Miami’s journalism program and immediate past president of SPJ, said she hopes the award helps to put Miami journalism students on the map.

“I think it adds to our profile in the state of Ohio and beyond as a journalism program that has students that are doing notable work,” Gallagher Newberry said. “I think the awards serve to tell not only the Miami and Oxford community, but the whole country that Miami journalism has got it going on.”

First place winners will go on to compete for national recognition in the fall.

First-place wins

Owen Berg for Photo Illustration with “Miami slow to isolate sick students”
Tim Carlin for Feature Writing (large campus) with “One year later: Delts hazing survivor tells his story”
Ceili Doyle for COVID-19 Coverage with “Coronavirus devastates Oxford businesses, City proposes stimulus program”
Erin Glynn for Non-Fiction Magazine Article with “Ai (爱) to Love and Ai (挨) to Suffer”
Caroline Haubenstricker for Breaking News Reporting (large campus) for “Students break quarantine to host party; OPD issues first gathering ban citation”
Alessandra Manukian for Editorial Cartooning with three COVID-related illustrations
Madeline Phaby for General Column Writing with “To my fellow leftists; No, my professors didn’t brainwash me; Biden won, but we’re far from done”
Michael Vestey for Sports Column Writing for a selection of columns
Chris Vinel for Sports Writing (large campus) for “When it ends like this, crying is allowed in baseball”

Finalist Finishes

Tim Carlin for Sports Writing (large campus) for “Miami cheerleading is more than a team – it’s a family”
Lyndsey Carter and Abigail Kemper for COVID-19 Coverage with “Socially distant and socially awkward: Inside the freshman dorms”
Maya Fenter for Feature Writing (large campus) for “Pageantry in a new era: Redefining liberation”
Lukas Nelson for Sports Writing (large campus) for “Lauren Dickerson cements her status as a Miami legend”
Jessica Robinson for General Column Writing with a selection of humor columns

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