Thursday, June 26

Daily Bruin earns 3 SPJ awards and honors in national collegiate competition


The Daily Bruin won national awards in college journalism and was named regional Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper. (Daily Bruin file photo)


The Daily Bruin received three national honors from the Society of Professional Journalists in May.

At the national level, the Daily Bruin won awards for General Column Writing and Breaking News Photography in the Large School Division. It was also a finalist for the Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper.

SPJ recognizes distinguished collegiate reporting in the categories of print, online, art/graphics and more.

The Daily Bruin also received more than a dozen awards and honors at the regional level in March.

In the Region 11 competition, made up of several southwestern states and territories, the Bruin received seven first-place awards and was a finalist in six other categories. The Bruin was also named the Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper.

College newspapers from Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands and Nevada competed in Region 11. First-place winners in the Region 11 section compete at the national level with other regional winners.

 

SPJ Mark of Excellence – National

Winners:

Finalist:

  • Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper: Staff of Daily Bruin

 

SPJ Mark of Excellence – Region 11

Winners:

Finalists:

Alumnus

Qu was the 2021-2022 Editor in chief. He was previously the 2020-2021 campus politics editor and a contributor for The Stack. He studied statistics and political science at UCLA.

Assistant News editor

Iyer is the current Science and Health editor and a reporter for News. She is also an Illustrator and Graphics contributor. She was previously a contributor for the Science and Health beat. She is a third year astrophysics student at UCLA who enjoys writing Physics and Astronomy research articles and drawing accompanying artwork.


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