Journal Online takes New Media gong at Scottish Student Press Awards
Scottish Student Press Awards 2008
The Journal took home the best website prize at The Herald Scottish Student Press Awards in Glasgow yesterday afternoon.
The prize is the first national award to be won by The Journal in its short, 7-month history. It was also highly commended in the Student Newspaper of the Year category.
Editor Ben Judge said: "This is a great achievement and a real vindication of all the hard work that has gone in to The Journal's first year in existence."
Described by the judging panel as "slick, stylish and incredibly easy to use," the Journal Online is the first website to win the inaugural New Media gong at the most prestigious student media event in Scotland.
Special recognition was given to The Journal's art director, Matt MacLeod, who designed and built the site.
The 2008 awards were hugely successful for the Glasgow University Guardian who took four of the eight awards, including Best Newspaper and Scottish Student Journalist of the Year.
The full list of winners at the 2008 Scottish Student Press Awards:
Student Newspaper of the Year:
Winner: Glasgow University Guardian
Highly Commended: The Journal
Student Magazine of the Year:
Winner: GUM (University of Glasgow)
Highly Commended: Retrospect (University of Edinburgh)
Commended: Fest
New Media Award:
The Journal
Student Journalist of the Year
Chris Watt (Glasgow University Guardian)
Student News Writer of the Year:
Chris Watt (Glasgow University Guardian)
Student Feature Writer of the Year:
Winner: James Ellingworth (Student)
Highly Commended: Chris Watt (Glasgow University Guardian)
Student Sports Writer of the Year:
Martin Domin (Student)
Student Photographer of the Year:
James Porteous (Glasgow University Guardian)
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