Publications win SPJ, TIPA, CNBAM awards

Image magazine and the DailySkiff.com Web site have been recognized as best publications by both the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) and the Society of Professional Journalists region that includes colleges in Texas and Oklahoma.

Image magazine won the TIPA sweepstakes award, which is based on overall awards and first in overall excellence at the TIPA annual convention held April 3-5 in College Station. The magazine won the first place Mark of Excellence (MOE) award at the recent Region 8 SPJ spring conference in New Orleans.

In TIPA’s affiliated Web sites category, DailySkiff.com won first place in the general web site excellence category, and it won the first place MOE for affiliated Web sites from SPJ.

In all, the publications’ staffs have won 13 awards, and 26 individual student journalists have won or shared in 43 awards in individual categories.

As first-place regional SPJ winners, the magazine and Web site are up for national honors against the other regional winners, and the national winners will be announced in mid-May. Individually, three student journalists—Ana Bak, Michael Bou-Nacklie, and Tim Bella—won first-place in the SPJ category for online sports reporting for their DailySkiff.com multi-media story package that detailed the men’s basketball player Luke Tauscher’s recovery from a potentially career-ending back injury. They also advance to the national round of judging.

In the same rounds of competitions, the TCU Daily Skiff won second place in the TIPA Best of Show competition and third place in its overall excellence category for daily newspapers, and the newspaper won a third place Mark of Excellence award for best daily newspaper in the SPJ competition. The Daily Skiff also received an honorable mention in the same category at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors convention.

At the recent national College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers national convention in San Antonio, The Daily Skiff and Daily Skiff.com advertising staff, in the under 40,000 circulation category, won second in the best sales promotion material category and third place for best training program.

Individual award winners are listed by name, organization and award:

• James Brown, SPJ, third place, general news reporting.
• Cortney Strube, SPJ, second place, magazine non-fiction article; TIPA, third place, news-feature story, TIPA.
• Tim Bella, SPJ third place, magazine non-fiction article and second place, online news reporting, TIPA honorable mention. sports column.
• Ronald Villegas, TIPA, first place and second place, magazine general news photo, and first place, ad design; SPJ, second place, general news photography and second place, photo illustration;
• Christina Durano, SPJ, second place, television feature
• Megan Mowery, second place, SPJ, online news reporting
• Bailey Shiffler, SPJ, third place, online news reporting; TIPA, third place, best breaking news online
• Ana Bak, Michael Bou-Nacklie, and Tim Bella, SPJ, first place, online news reporting
• Marcus Murphree, TIPA, honorable mention, critical review
• Lindsey Bever, TIPA, first place, general newspaper column
• Christina Ruffini, TIPA, general newspaper column
• Andrew Chavez and Paul Sanders, TIPA, first place, best Web site interactivity
• Ana Bak, TIPA, second place, best use of multimedia online
• Ky Lewis, TIPA, overall magazine design and first place, magazine cover design
•  Michael Bou-Nacklie, TIPA, first place, magazine feature photo; second place, newspaper news photo, and third place, newspaper feature photo.
• Ky Lewis and Ronald Villegas, second place, TIPA,, illustration
• Kathleen Thurber, first place, TIPA, column/essay; honorable mention, TIPA, picture story
• Ky Lewis, Sarah Cox, Darren White, first place, TIPA, picture story
• Michelle Thomas,  first place, TIPA, magazine feature story
• Ky Lewis, Cortney Strube, Ronald Villegas, honorable mention, TIPA, magazine story package
• Camila Andres, TIPA, first place, opinion page design and honorable mention, page one design.
• Laura Flores, TIPA, honorable mention, feature page design
• Laura Flores, Keely Doering, TIPA, first place, photo illustration
• Lana Blocker, TIPA, honorable mention,  editorial cartoon.
• Keely Doering, TIPA, first place, single subject presentation and honorable mention, information graphic
• Andrew Chavez, TIPA, first place, sports feature story, and honorable mention, sports action photo
• Julieta Chiquillo, TIPA, third place place, on site Spanish news reporting
• Valerie Hannon, TIPA, honorable mention, on site news reporting.

PUBLICATIONS STAFF AWARDS

• Image magazine:
  • SPJ, first place, best magazine;
  • TIPA, sweepstakes award;
  •  first place, overall excellence
• DailySkiff.com: 
  • SPJ first place, best affiliated Web site;
  • TIPA, first place, best affiliated web site
• TCU Daily Skiff: 
  • SPJ, best all-around daily newspaper (published at least 4 times per week);
  • TIPA, second place, best of show;
  • TIPA, third place, overall excellence;
  • TIPA, first place, best special section/issue;
  • TIPA, third place, editorial;
  • College Newspaper and Business Managers (CNBAM), second place, best sales promotion;
  • CNBAM, third place, best training program;
  • Texas Associated Press Managing Editors (TAPME), honorable mention, best daily newspaper