Guardian_Student_Media_Award

<i>Guardian</i> Student Media Award

Guardian Student Media Award

Defunct student journalism competition ran in the UK


The Guardian Student Media Awards were an annual UK-wide student journalism competition run by The Guardian newspaper. They were cancelled from 2016 onwards to save costs.[1]

History

Since 1947, The National Union of Students (NUS) have run a student journalism competition of some kind. In 1978, The Guardian joined forces with the NUS for the inaugural NUS/Guardian Student Media Awards.

In the early years the competition was modest. Only a handful of categories - for Best Paper, Best Magazine, Best Photographer and Best Journalist existed - along with awards for student radio.

During the 1990s, the individual print categories began to rise exponentially, and today include Reporter, Feature writer, Critic, Sports writer, Diversity writer, Travel writer and Columnist. Meanwhile, the broadcast categories were dropped after the judges consistently reported insufficient quality to yield a shortlist. Other categories added included Publication Design and Website. Small Budget Publication was also added, but it has now been replaced by Student Broadcaster.

Since 1999, The Guardian and the NUS have run separate student journalism awards. The Guardian's are now simply called the Guardian Student Media Awards. The NUS meanwhile, launched the National Student Journalism Awards, which have been sponsored by The Independent (1999-2002), The Daily Mirror (2003-2005), The Press Association (2006- 2015) and Citizen Training (2016-)

Format

The Awards are launched in July each year, with a closing date at the beginning of September. Typically students are required to send their best three articles from the past academic year to be critiqued by a panel of senior national journalists. In early November, a shortlist of five entrants per category is printed in Media section of the newspaper. The winners and runners-up in each category, along with an overall student reporter of the year, are announced at a London ceremony at the beginning of December.

As of the 2014 awards, submissions were invited in the following categories:[2]

  • A Student publication
  • B Student website
  • C Student reporter
  • D Student feature writer
  • E Student columnist
  • F Student critic
  • G Student photographer
  • H Student digital journalist
  • I Student broadcast journalist

Previous winners

Publication of the Year

Website of the Year

More information Website of the Year, Winner ...

Reporter of the Year

Until 2009 there was a separate category of Student Journalist of the Year which was selected from all categories of the awards. This award was removed from 2010 onwards and awards are now only given in specific categories of entry.

More information Reporter of the Year, Winner ...

Journalist of the Year (now defunct)

More information Reporter of the Year, Winner ...

Feature writer of the Year

More information Feature writer of the Year, Winner ...

Columnist of the Year

More information Columnist of the Year, Winner ...

Critic of the Year

More information Critic of the Year, Winner ...

Photographer of the Year

More information Photographer of the Year, Winner ...

Publication Design of the Year (now defunct)

More information Publication Design of the Year, Winner ...

Diversity writer of the Year (now defunct)

More information Diversity writer of the Year, Winner ...

Travel writer of the Year (now defunct)

More information Travel writer of the Year, Winner ...

Sports writer of the Year (now defunct)

More information Sports writer of the Year, Winner ...

Student Campaign (now defunct)

More information Student Campaign, Winner ...

Magazine of the Year (now defunct)

More information Magazine of the Year, Winner ...

Small Budget Publication (now defunct)

More information Small Budget Publication, Winner ...

References

  1. Mayhew, Freddy (24 June 2016). "Guardian cancels student media awards to save costs". Press Gazette. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  2. "Guardian Student Media Awards 2005". The Guardian. 21 September 2005. Retrieved 21 December 2014.

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