The Pendulum, Phi Psi Cli and Colonnades all pick up Best of Show honors at the annual North Carolina College Media Association gathering.
The Pendulum, the newspaper of the Elon News Network, Phi Psi Cli yearbook and Colonnades Literary and Art Journal all won Best of Show awards on Feb. 23 from the North Carolina College Media Association. Several students were honored in the individual categories, as well.
The awards were presented at the association’s conference for college media students and advisers held at North Carolina A&T State University.
The awards contest included hundreds of entries from more than 20 college media outlets from across the state. Below is a list of only the Elon winners. (The place next to the names indicates where students finished in a particular category.)
Newspaper—Small School (6,500 student enrollment and less)
Best of Show – Newspaper
Best of Show – Online
Photography
1. Caroline Brehman – “The Phoenix cheers on the sideline as the final seconds of the CAA title game tick down March 10”
Single- or Two-Page Design
1. Meghan Kimberling – “Basketball”
2. Stephanie Hays – “Feb. 28, 2018, front page”
Illustration/Graphic
1. Meghan Kimberling – “Growing Elon’s ecological footprint through campus sustainability”
2. Alex Toma – “Fences need to be faced in order to be mended”
3. Elena Hernandez – “Involvement shouldn’t come at the expense of health”
Digital Storytelling
2. Anton Delgado and Stephanie Hays – “The Battery Man”
News Writing
1. Alexandra Schonfeld – “Elon students connected to Parkland tragedy enact their own change”
3. Anton Delgado – “Michael’s Mess”
Feature Writing
1. Anton Delgado – “The Battery Man”
2. Emmanuel Morgan – “Weathering another storm”
Sports Writing
1. Alexa Baer – “Adversity in Athletics”
2. Jack Haley – “Legacies and legends”
Opinion Writing
2. Emmanuel Morgan – “Letter from the Editor: Elon needs ENN”
Yearbook
Best of Show
Student Life Copy
3. Myasia Ragland – “Cut it out!”
Sports Copy
3. Laurel Wind – “Back-to-Back”
Photography
3. Matthew Simmons – “Singing in the Rain”
Inside-Spread Design
1. Allison Simmons – “Tis the Season to be Freezin’”
2. Jordan Levine – “Acapocalypse”
Literary Magazine
Best of Show
Poetry
3. Maddy Gross – “Our Future Dogs”
Nonfiction
2. Olivia Ryan – “The Night He Spent with My Body”
Fiction
3. Matthew Cesari – “Instructions for Walking the Dog”
Photography/Art
3. Kendall Brewer – “Astrodrop”
In total, nine Elon University students attended the daylong conference, which featured workshops, panel discussions, critiques and a keynote address. The students in attendance were ENN staff members Alex Hager ’19, Ted Thomas ’22, Christian Galvano ’20 and Alexa Baer ’19. Representing Phi Psi Cli were members Sarah Stone ’19, Abby Weaver ’21 and Emery Eisner ’22. From Colonnades were Natalia Conte ’19 and April Roberts ’19.
Additionally, Elon’s Brooks Fuller, director of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition and instructor of communications, presented a session titled “Media Law Update: Covering Your Campus—accessing and using content.”
Lecturer and Pendulum adviser Kelly Furnas and Director of Student Media Colin Donohue ’05 accompanied the students to the Greensboro conference.