Student Media Awards
These awards spanned all our platforms — newspaper, web, broadcast, yearbook, magazine and social media. Notable awards include the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Crown for hybrid newspaper; Best All-Around Television News Magazine from Society of Professional Journalists-Region 8; Best Website from Baptist Communicators Association; and the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Silver Crown for yearbook. The Baylor Lariat, Lariat TV News and Baylor Roundup were all Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker finalists this year as well.
Roundup photo editor and incoming editor-in-chief Josh McSwain earned the prestigious title of Designer of the Year during this spring’s Texas Intercollegiate Press Association conference. He was one of 14 student media staffers who attended the conference and competed in on-site contests against college students statewide. They nabbed nine of these awards, including Lariat staff writer Ana Ruiz Brictson’s first place in Spanish news writing. The team brought home a total of 50 TIPA awards, 19 of which were first place.
Students in the department also received numerous accolades from College Media Association, College Broadcasters Inc., Editor & Publisher, American Copy Editors Society and Baptist Communicators Association.