{"id":36476,"date":"2023-06-09T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=36476"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:35:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:35:48","slug":"com-students-win-top-awards-from-press-association","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/com-students-win-top-awards-from-press-association\/","title":{"rendered":"COM Students Win Top Awards from Press Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Colbi Edmonds (COM&#8217;23) was named the region\u2019s &#8220;Top College Journalist&#8221; and Bella Ramirez (COM&#8217;25, CAS&#8217;25) was named &#8220;College Rising Star&#8221; by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nenpa.com\/better-newspaper-competition-list-of-winners-and-judges-comments-released\/\">New England Newspaper and Press Association<\/a> during its recent annual conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About Edmonds, judges wrote: \u201cClearly, Colbi is with the times, a leader and has gotten good advice on getting work at professional news orgs while in college.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About Ramirez: \u201cShe has a demonstrated interest in journalism and, though politics is her self-described area of passion, she has produced stories in a variety of coverage areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfreepress.com\/2021\/10\/04\/traumatic-volatile-and-torturous-bu-students-voice-lasting-impacts-of-working-orientation-under-shiney-james\/\">An investigation of abuse in BU&#8217;s orientation office<\/a>, leading to the resignation of the office director, by Edmonds and Cameron Morsberger (COM&#8217;22) received a first-place award for in-depth reporting. Judges called the work \u201csolid investigative reporting holding the powerful accountable.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boston University&#8217;s independent student newspaper, the <em>Daily Free Press<\/em>, was named New England College Newspaper of the Year, with judges taking note of the newspaper\u2019s \u201csense of urgency and timeliness in the choice of stories and their placement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shannon Damiano (COM\u201922) and Mohan Ge (COM\u201922) of the <em>Daily Free Press<\/em> received a first place award for photo series on election night parties for Boston\u2019s mayoral race. \u201cThis series does such a great job of capturing the highs and lows for both candidates and their supporters at the end of a historic election,\u201d judges wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 2,000 entries were submitted to NENPA, a trade association representing more than 450 daily, weekly and specialty newspapers throughout the six-state region.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colbi Edmonds (COM&#8217;23) was named the region\u2019s &#8220;Top College Journalist&#8221; and Bella Ramirez (COM&#8217;25, CAS&#8217;25) was named &#8220;College Rising Star&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":36477,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[1473,3,876],"tags":[360,1727],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/36476"}],"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\/1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/36476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36478,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/36476\/revisions\/36478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=36476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}