Editors with The Blue Banner pose with one of the eight awards they received at the annual N.C. College Media Association conference Feb. 29 at East Carolina University. From left: Eliza Hill, Laura Browne, Taylor Sexton, Brailey Sheridan, Camille Nevarez-Hernandez, Kayla Gearhart, Ezra Maille and Roman Uglehus.March 2, 2020
The Blue Banner, UNC Asheville’s student newspaper, earned eight awards at the annual statewide College Media Association’s conference held Feb. 29, 2020, at East Carolina University.
The Blue Banner received the following awards for 2020:
- Best of Show (one of four) – Online News
- First Place – Opinion Writing – A good man will never make up for his monstrous past, by Maggie Haddock
- Second Place – Illustration/Graphic – Evey King
- Third Place – Single/Two-page Design – Laura Browne
- Third Place – Sports Writing – Ultimate captain enters his final season, by Martin Phillips
- Honorable Mention – Feature Writing – The Art Trap House debuts owners show, by Emily-Ann Trautman
- Honorable Mention – Photography – Emily-Ann Trautman
- Honorable Mention – Sports Writing – Freedom with Skateboarding, by Joe Lehrman
The N.C. College Media Association, sponsored by the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill, offers a one-day conference on a different campus each year to hold educational workshops and recognize outstanding work from the state’s student newspapers, yearbooks and online news organizations.
For more information, contact Michael Gouge, UNC Asheville lecturer in mass communication, 828.232.2423 or mgouge@unca.edu.
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