Boston University Journalism students have taken home five prizes, including two First Place awards, in a prestigious national contest sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.<\/p>\n
First Place in the Investigations and Analysis Division <\/strong>went to Phil Mattingly for a story about the after-effects experienced by reporters who were embedded during the first years of the Iraq war. The judges praised Phil\u2019s work, which constituted his master\u2019s degree thesis, for the “excellent interviews and quotes (that) give human faces to (the) subject.”<\/p>\n First Place in the Consumer Magazine\/Features Division<\/strong> went to Jennifer Lunsford for a story headlined \u201cBrain Freeze.\u201d The judges praised Jennifer for a \u201cfunny, smart look at the \u2018science\u2019 of cryonics.\u201d One judge wrote: \u201cSnappy intro pulled me right in, and breezy, vaguely skeptical tone kept me reading. Full of great lines such as, \u2018Why would someone choose to have his head removed and stored in a freezer?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The other BU award winners were as follows:<\/p>\n Second Place, Consumer Magazine\/People: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAnorexia: Beyond the Scale\u201d by Mary-Katherine Ream.<\/p>\n Third Place, Consumer Magazine\/Places: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Sound of Eastie,\u201d by Dan Trudeau.<\/p>\n Honorable Mention, Consumer Magazine\/People: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cRaised Up Family,\u201d by Ira Kantor.<\/p>\n The contest, judged by professionals in the magazine field, drew more than 300 entries from schools across the country. AEJMC is the nation\u2019s leading journalism education organization. Its members include about 3,500 journalism and mass communication faculty, administrators, students and media professionals from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boston University Journalism students have taken home five prizes, including two First Place awards, in a prestigious national contest sponsored…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9874,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[6,291],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1010\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}