Contest winners all move on to the national round of judging against students from 11 other regions.
Elon News Network, nine School of Communications students and two alumni were named winners and finalists across several categories of the Society of Professional Journalists competition.
Below is the list of the winners:
- BEST AFFILIATED WEBSITE
- BEST ALL-AROUND NON-DAILY NEWSPAPER , , and , editions
- BEST ALL-AROUND TELEVISION NEWSCAST
- GENERAL NEWS REPORTING Abby Gibbs 21 for
- BREAKING NEWS REPORTING ENN Staff for
- IN-DEPTH REPORTING Cammie Behnke 19 for
- SPORTS WRITING Amanda Gibson 21 for
- FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Clare Grant 23 for
- SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY Thomas Denome 23 for
- IMMERSION JOURNALISM Anton Delgado 20 for
- ONLINE FEATURE REPORTING Oliver Fischer 19 for
Below is the list of finalists:
- FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Anton Delgado 20 for
- TELEVISION BREAKING NEWS REPORTING Margaret Faust 23 for
- TELEVISION FEATURE REPORTING Jack Norcross 21 for
- TELEVISION IN-DEPTH REPORTING Liam Collins 20 for
Behnkes story is the only one on the list that was not completed for Elon News Network. She conducted her reporting during Winter Term as a Pulitzer Center Student Fellow. Her 1,500-word feature, 5遜-minute video and collection of photos centered on the economic gender reversal in a post-genocide Rwanda, where she spent 12 days working on her story.
SPJ Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards are given in newspaper, TV, radio and online categories. Awards are presented only to those who place in the top three in the region. Regional winners move on to the national competition, at which time they will compete with 11 other first-place regional winners. Region 2 comprises North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Delaware.
Last year, four students won national SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards, including Emmanuel Morgan and Alex Hager 19 (General News Reporting), Anton Delgado 20 (Breaking News Photography) and Jessica Rapfogel 19 (Sports Photography).
消消犯 has had at least one national SPJ Mark of Excellence winner every year since 2012.