Boston University journalism students walked off with five national prizes in the highly competitive student magazine competition sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Twenty-three Universities from the U.S. and Canada took part in the competition.<\/p>\n
The winners were announced July 11 2012. Here are the results:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Debutant Wars,\u201d by Elizabeth Jones<\/strong>. Jones wrote the article for Caryl Rivers\u2019 Creative Non-Fiction class and it was published in Vision<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n Judge\u2019s Comments: Why it won: \u201cExtremely engaging, funny, and just plain fun. I struggled a bit with picking the top spot, but this one kept calling out to me. It’s quite simply my FAVORITE story of the batch. The one that I would read till the end, were I browsing a magazine\u2026The writer has an enormous amount of potential, and I look forward to seeing what she does next. This is the sort of story that people make movies out of.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGambling Man,\u201d by Brittany Danielson<\/strong>, Boston University. This article appeared in \u201cThe Comment,\u201d COM\u2019s graduate student magazine.<\/p>\n Judge\u2019s Comments: Why it won: \u201cWhat I love about this story is how effortless it seems. A lot of young writers tend to overwrite and pack their stories with thousand-dollar words. This one seems honest and simple, but is still very powerful. It’s also engaging and tragic, without being self-pitying.\u201d<\/p>\n The student editor of The Comment<\/em> was James Robinson<\/strong>, faculty editor was Amy Sutherland<\/strong> and The Comment<\/em> is under the overall direction of Writing Center Director Susan Blau<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cSofie at 10,\u201d by Gretchen Baker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Why it won: \u201cThis unusual profile takes you into the life of 10-year-old Sofie Butler of Brookline, Massachusetts. And it does so with amazing insight: it\u2019s as if a 10-year-old author were describing the 10-year-old subject. Yet the language and observations are quite sophisticated. If Holden Caulfield had been a 10-year-old girl, this is the kind of story J.D.Salinger might have written about her. It leaves you vaguely worried about mercurial Sofie\u2019s future, but eager someday to be brought up to date on whatever happened to this fascinating child.\u201d<\/p>\nThird Place, First Person Category:<\/h4>\n
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