Staff members at The Pitt News received thirteen awards in eleven different categories from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for print stories published between June 11, 2018 through June 10, 2019.
The competition, Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s 2019 Gold Circle Awards, recognizes “superior” work in student journalism at schools nationwide and schools overseas that follow an American curriculum.
The winners are:
News writing
2nd place
Jon Moss, Assistant news editor
“’Union Avoidance’ Firm Received $240k from Pitt”
Editorial
1st place
Maggie Durwald, Assistant opinions editor
Personal opinion: on-campus issue
1st place
Cammy Morsberger, Staff columnist
”Pitt Needs Needle Disposal Containers”
Personal opinion: off-campus issues
1st place
Jeremy Wang, former Assistant opinions editor
“Pittsburgh Gun Bills Fail Civil Rights and Safety”
Certificate of Merit
Janine Faust, Editor-in-chief
“State Should Step Up to Address Rising Tuition”
General or humor commentary
1st place
Allison Dantinne, Senior staff columnist
“If These Walls Could Talk, They’d Scream”
Sports news
2nd place
Trent Leonard, Sports editor
Personality profile
1st place
Maya Best, former Culture reporter
“Chloe Baierl | Knitting pretty”
3rd place
Emily Wolfe, News editor
Pitt’s Peregrine Falcons | Flesh and Blood”
General feature
3rd place
Emily Wolfe, News editor
“A day in the life of student canvassing”
Single feature photograph
2nd place
Anna Bongardino, former Visuals editor and Digital manager
Single sports photograph
1st place
Bader Abdulmajeed, Senior staff photographer
“Redshirt Freshman Micky Phillippi”
Newsmagazine cover
2nd place
Eli Savage, Layout editor and Staff illustrator
“Silhouettes 2019”
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