Warwick students win more media awards
Students from the University of Warwick, including Eden Fall-Bailey who achieved success at last November’s Press Club-organised Midlands Media Students’ Awards, were amongst the winners at this year’s national Student Publication Awards.
Eden, who until earlier this year was co-editor-in-chief at student newspaper The Boar, took the accolade for Best Interview (What’s the Big Issue? A frank conversation on homelessness) with a man who slept in Leamington town centre for six years.
Saying she was “super honoured” to be receiving such an award, she added: It's also refreshing to see non-traditional media stories being acknowledged!"
At last year’s Midlands Media Students Awards, Eden won the News Category for what the judges described as a “stand-out” in-depth study of vaping.
The Boar’s current co-editors-in-chief, Luke Chapman and Archie Clarke (pictured) were Highly Commended in the SPA’s Best News Story Award for their article on “the Sherbourne Stabbing.” (Warwick student ‘failed by the justice system’ after Sherbourne stabbing sentencing)
They said: “We’re incredibly pleased to have been highly commended for this award. It was such an important article to get right as both of us have heard so many different versions of the original story. We put a lot of effort into ensuring the facts were right, and we hope this story has provided a definitive narrative for the Warwick student community.”
Zoé Barret won the Best Creative Piece category for her poem, Greetings and Goodbye. She said: "I am incredibly honoured and happy to have won the award. The poem represented the things I love most about university, an environment where you learn to live independently but also necessarily with others, in a way that your friends become family. These are feelings I will always associate with Warwick and I am glad I could share them.”
The awards, sponsored by a range of industry bodies and judged by editors and leading journalists, celebrate the best student newspapers, magazines, and journalists for innovative and impactful work produced over the past 12 months. This year they attracted 1,200 entries from the UK and Ireland, featuring hard-hitting investigations, insightful interviews, thought-provoking culture pieces and stunning print design.
Aubrey Allegretti, a Trustee for the SPA who is also Chief Political Correspondent for The Times said, "Student journalists have produced some phenomenal work this year. They conducted important investigative work, and kept their audiences informed and entertained in equal measure.
“Despite the threat of funding cuts, student journalists are still the lifeblood of their campus communities. They have campaigned on a range of important issues and continued to innovate to give a voice to the voiceless. I am confident our winners will follow those before them into the profession and become the industry leaders of tomorrow."
