JOVRNALISM’s The Address Book won its first Anthem Award — a Silver — in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Digital & Innovative Experiences Awareness Categories.
As part of the prize we were asked to submit an extremely short acceptance speech.
Learn more about the award here.
While we were not finalists this time around, The Address Book, a project by Jinglin Jingan was still honored as an Honoree and awarded a certificate.
Among all the student journalism produced in the country, JOVRNALISM’s Reflections of the L.A. Uprising project was awarded the Best Use of Multimedia in 2022. The award arrived today and joins our awards collection.
They are considered the Pulitzer Prizes for college journalism, JOVRNALISM was awarded first place for the Hearst Awards for the Reflections of the L.A. Uprising project.
The announcement stated that there were “69 entries from 42 schools submitted in the fourth multimedia competition of the academic year.”
First Place has been awarded to the team from the University of Southern California: Myrah Sarwar, Grace Yuan Gao, Halle Hazzard, Marta Hernani Fernandez, Rachel Kisela, Hannu Kivimaki, Charisma Madarang, Jesse Mechanic, Lajja Mistry, Jacqueline Pinedo, Sam Schwartz, Mallika Singh, Vaishnavi Vasudevan and Randy Vazquez.
In addition to the national recognition, the team “will receive a $3,000 scholarship for the winning multimedia piece.”
USC Annenberg wrote up a short article about the win.
JOVRNALISM returns as a finalist for the Webby Awards in the 2023 Advertising, Media & PR Student category.
The innovative, multimedia project documenting the 30th anniversary of the L.A. Riots/L.A. Uprising included oral histories, virtual museums and augmented reality portals into the past with photojournalists.
You can vote for the project here: https://winners.webbyawards.com/2023/advertising-media-pr/individual/student/248979/reflections-of-the-la-uprising
Reflections of the L.A. Uprising project, the immersive project commemorating the 30th anniversary of the L.A. Riots/L.A. Uprising, was selected as a finalist for the Online Journalism Awards in the Student Journalism Award, Portfolio: Student Team category.
The OJAs, put on by the Online News Association, is one of the most prestigious recognitions in the journalism industry.
Learn more about our entry here: https://awards.journalists.org/entries/reflections-of-the-l-a-uprising/