The Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Art has announced that two SJMC
students have earned national recognition for work produced for The Carolina News. The awards will be presented at the annual conference in Las Vegas in April.
Zane Heinlein - TV Short Feature: Award of Excellence
More Gen-Z students are enrolling in trade schools, helping fill a skilled worker
shortage, and vocational programs nationwide are seeing record enrollment. Zane Heinlein
was the photographer and reporter for this story.
Elizabeth Martinez was named student journalist of the year.
Seven students from the broadcast journalism capstone course Carolina News were honored by the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas with
top awards in several categories.
The students garnered four first-place awards and three second place awards.
Elizabeth Martinez, who graduated in May 2024 and is now a multimedia content producer
for Spectrum News in Greenville, South Carolina, was named the Haney Howell Student
Journalist of the Year.
Senior visual communications major and Honors College student Callie Hribar brought
home top honors in the logo design competition sponsored by the Association for Education
in Journalism and Mass Communication.
With the first place win, Hribar received a $250 cash prize, and her logo will be
featured on all branded ads, signage and promotional material during the 2025 AEJMC
conference in San Francisco. Hribar submitted her entry this spring as part of an
assignment in the Multimedia for Visual Communications course taught by associate
professor Van Kornegay.
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