SIUE Alestle wins five state collegiate journalism awards 2009 - Tammy Merrett-Murry - Contact (618)-650-3597
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — The Alestle, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville’s student newspaper, recently won five awards during the annual collegiate media workshops of the Illinois College Press Association.
The Alestle won first place in the non-dailies 4,000 or more division in the category of headline writing. Former student Maggie Rhynes authored the work that comprised the entry.
At the conference and awards held in Chicago in February, The Alestle took second place in its division in sports news. Josh McCarty wrote the story “Decorated track star leaves SIUE.”
Photographer Derrick Hawkins won a third place award in the sports photo category for a wrestling photo. Megan McClure also won a third place award for The Alestle in the column-writing category.
Holly Meyer also brought home an award for The Alestle with an honorable mention in the column-writing category.
Both Meyer and McClure are graduating mass communications students.
Editor-in-Chief Catherine Klene accepted the awards on behalf of the staff members from the 2008-2009 academic year. Faculty Adviser Tammy Merrett-Murry was also at the ceremony.
“This was the first awards ceremony I have attended with The Alestle since I started in July 2008, and I was impressed by not only the caliber of awards The Alestle won, but also the pool of quality work they were selected from as the winners,” Merrett-Murry said.
The Alestle competes nationally against many other newspapers from across the country. State-wide The Alestle competes regularly against newspapers from such student newspapers and schools as the Bradley Scout at Bradley University, Chicago Maroon at the University of Illinois, Chicago Weekly at the University of Chicago, the Columbia Chronicle at Columbia College, DePaulia at DePaul University, Dominican Star at Dominican University, Chicago Flame at the University of Illinois-Chicago, the Journal at University of Illinois-Springfield, Lewis University, the Loyola Phoenix at Loyola University, the Independent at Northeastern Illinois University, The Torch at Roosevelt University and the Xavierite at St. Xavier University.
Entries in the competition were judged for general excellence by working members of the Illinois press.
Other recent awards include two national Best of Show awards—third place in 2007 and honorable mention in 2006—won by The Alestle staff at the annual national college media convention hosted by the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisers.