Awards
Fall 2024: The George-Anne Media Group wins Pacemaker award for Innovation
The George-Anne Media group was represented at Associated Collegiate Press in New Orleans, by (pictured second from left) Tyler Phillips , vertical monitor graphic designer; Shaniya Anderson (pictures second from right), Justine Cozza, Assistant Director of student media.
The George-Anne Media Group was the sole winner of the 2024 Pacemaker award for Innovation.
The Pacemakers, awarded by Associated Collegiate Press, are considered the highest honors in college media.
The George-Anne Media Group was named the winner of the 2024 innovation award for their Vertical Monitor project, which involved mounting and placing vertical video monitors in the student union of its Statesboro Campus and produced a 24/7 stream of video to engage students in person.
According to the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP), this Pacemaker “recognizes overall excellence and distinguishes the top student media produced during a particular school year. The Innovation Pacemaker is designed to encourage out-of-the-box thinking and reward student media for the courage to take chances to improve service to their customers, readers, and communities.”
ACP shared a press release announcing The George-Anne Media Group’s win. It reads in part:
“In September, six student media programs were named Pacemaker finalists. From those six finalists, the judges said one application packet stood out from the others.
“Collegiate student media is rapidly changing and those programs that don’t generate new revenue streams and innovative ways to deliver content to their readers will struggle to survive,” associate director Gary Lundgren said. “Print is now just one component — there is far more to a successful student media program than publishing the campus newspaper.”
The students named on the award include: Anna Claire Edenfield, Elise Taylor, Jordyn Mobley, Lorena Martinez, Peyton Siebert, Shaniya Anderson, Tyler Phillips, Vanessa Countryman, Kamila Gonzalez.
Fall 2023: George-Anne Media Group brings home awards from National College Media Convention
Georgia Southern University student media outlets Your Newsroom and The George-Anne Inkwell Edition brought home awards from the 2023 National College Media Convention in Atlanta.
Your Newsroom, a streaming television news outlet, was named one of six finalists in the nation for the Broadcast Pacemaker Award. The Pacemakers, awarded by Associated Collegiate Press, are considered the highest honors in college media. It was the second Pacemaker finalist nomination in Georgia Southern history. The first was in 2022, when The George-Anne Media Group was named a finalist and a winner in the Innovation Pacemaker competition.
Your Newsroom also received a second-place award for best newscast in the College Media Association. In the Associated Collegiate Press Broadcast Story of the Year awards, Your Newsroom reporter Ke’juan Humphries received fourth place for sports story and executive producer Ashley Watts received an honorable mention for news story.
The George-Anne Inkwell Edition, which serves the Armstrong Campus, received second place for best enterprise coverage of diversity for schools with enrollments of less than 10,000 in the College Media Association Pinnacle Awards. The winning entry was written by Inkwell co-editor-in-chief Emmie Roper and was part of a package of coverage about Gullah-Geechee culture.
Spring 2023: George-Anne Inkwell Edition wins top awards in state, regional competitions
The George-Anne Inkwell Edition, which serves the Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University, won first-place awards in the Georgia College Press Association and Southern Regional Press Institute competitions in spring 2023.
The Inkwell Edition received first place for overall news coverage in the Georgia College Press Association contest for campuses with enrollment of 8,000 or less.
The Inkwell also was named best overall print publication at the Southern Regional Press Institute, sponsored by Savannah State University.
Fall 2022: George-Anne Media Group wins top prize in college journalism
Georgia Southern University’s student media outlets have won a Pacemaker Award, the top prize bestowed by the Associated Collegiate Press.
The Pacemaker Awards often are referred to as “the Pulitzers of college journalism.” The George-Anne Media Group received the only Innovation Pacemaker awarded this year to a four-year institution for “The George-Anne Media Zone,” a project to engage students with displays and conversation at the Russell Union on the Statesboro Campus.
“The Innovation Pacemaker is designed to encourage out-of-the-box thinking and reward student media for the courage to take chances to improve service to their customers, readers and communities,” the national organization said in an announcement.
The George-Anne Media Zone contest entry included contributions from students Maya Albert, editor-in-chief of the Creative group of The George-Anne Media Group; Ansley Hamilton, host of “The RU Show” for George-Anne Films; Tamara Tanksley, editor-in-chief of the Deep Dive and host for interviews with diversity-focused organizations at the union; and Andy Cole, former executive producer of Your Newsroom, whose reporters conducted interviews in the union about events such as the invasion of Ukraine.
The award was announced at Media Fest 22, a national journalism conference in Washington, D.C.
More awards from Media Fest 22:
George-Anne Reflector Magazine’s Spring 2022 edition, led by then-Creative editor-in-chief Kayla Hill and then-Reflector editor-in-chief Lauren Sabia, received:
- First place for print design in the Best of Show contest (pages 22-25)
- First place for best magazine cover in the College Media Association Pinnacle Awards
- Second place for best magazine feature page/spread in the Pinnacle Awards (pages 26-27)
Your Newsroom, led this fall by executive producer Nayia Worrell and news director Ashley Watts, received:
- Honorable mention for best video newscast in the Pinnacle Awards for the Jan. 26, 2022 newscast
- Third place for sports package in the College Media Association Film and Video Festival, Justin Helms, football recruiting
- Third place for news package in the film and Video Festival, Ashley Watts, Teal House 5K
- Third place for broadcast sports story in the Best of Show contest, Ke’juan Humphries, Men’s soccer
- Fourth place for broadcast news program in Best of Show for the Sept. 28, 2022 newscast
- Seventh place for broadcast news story in Best of Show, Haley Perini, Statesboro Service League Attic Sale
The George-Anne Daily email newsletter received ninth place in the Best of Show contest for the Oct. 19, 2022 edition, edited by Vanessa Countryman, editor-in-chief of The George-Anne Statesboro Edition.
Last updated: 11/6/2024