The Advocate, Doing It Downtown win numerous SPJ awards
The MSUM Advocate brought home more than a dozen Society of Professional Journalist (SPJ) awards recently. The student run newspaper was named a finalist for Best All Around Student Newspaper, while many individuals took home awards.
The awards were presented to Editor Kayleigh Omang at Region 6 SPJ conference in Bloomington, Minn.
The region includes colleges from North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Iowa.
Best All Around Student Newspaper
Finalist: The Advocate
Feature Writing
Winner: Across the Globe – Laura Grimm
Finalist: Together in Song – Kailyn Allen
Feature Photography
Winner: Reservation to Graduation – Kayleigh Omang
General News Reporting
Winner: Snapchat – Haley Foster
Finalist: The Desk Job – Josie Gereszek
General News Photography
Winner: Dakota Access Pipeline Camp – Kayleigh Omang
Sports Writing
Winner: Small Town, Big Dreams – Tanner Robinson
Finalist: Memories and Plays – John Miller
Sports Photography
Finalist: Damon Gibson – Kayleigh Omang
The Society of Professional Journalists also named two first place winners for individual awards and two finalists for the staff of the Doing It Downtown.
Doing It Downtown is a student run blog supervised by Deneen Gilmour that is published on Area Voices.
Online Feature Reporting
First Place Winner: Creativity in the Kitchen – Josie Gereszek
Best Use of Multimedia
First Place Winner: More Than Meets the Mouth – Josie Gereszek
Best Independent Online Student Publication
Finalist: Doing It Downtown
Best Digital-Only Student Publication
Finalist: Doing It Downtown