2021
AEJMC Southeast Colloquium's Creative Contest
- Jessann Thompson & Hannah Williams. Honorable Mention for Visual Branding &
Identity—Environmental (Street flags for BrandJRNY’s Point Pleasant Project).
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Rita Colistra
- Brianna Fierro. Honorable Mention for Photography—Journalism Still (Photograph
for BrandJRNY’s Pineville Project).
Faculty Advisor: David Smith
American Advertising Awards (WV Chapter of American Advertising Federation)
Martin Hall Agency won three ADDY Awards from the West Virginia chapter of the American
Advertising Federation for work performed during the Spring and Fall 2020 semesters
under the leadership of Jennifer Harker. Students included SeVohn Hunter, Ana O’Brien.
Morgan Zanke, Victoria Price, Yadara Luckett, Ian Ridgeway, Jeffrey Boggess, Skyler
Fleisher and Isabella Bevilacqua.
- Gold ADDY Award for the Timber Safe Logging Safety Campaign (cross platform integrated
brand identity campaign)
- Silver ADDY Award for the Timber Safe Recruitment Ads (elements of advertising:
art direction ~ Jeffrey Boggess)
- Silver ADDY Award for the Timber Safe Recruitment Ads (elements of advertising:
film, video, sound & cinematography)
Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts
- Award of Excellence: Kayla Starcher for "To Reach Worshipers During the Coronavirus
Pandemic WV Churches get Creative," which aired on West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Award of Excellence: Maxwell Shavers, Kayla Starcher, Gillian Wanosky and Duncan
Slade for "Coronavirus closes campus but the podcast continues"
Hearst Audio Competition
- Kayla Starcher tied for #20 for her podcast, "To Reach Worshipers During the Coronavirus
Pandemic WV Churches get Creative," which aired on West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Nicholas Evans Professional Staff Advising Excellence Award
Undergraduate Advising Coordinator Emily Roush was named one of the 2021-21 co-recipients
of the
Nicholas Evans Professional Staff Advising Excellence Award.
Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards
- Radio News Reporting Winner: Kayla Starcher for her podcast,“To reach worshippers during the coronavirus pandemic WV churches get creative.”
- Television Breaking News Reporting Winner: Taylor Hall for “College Avenue
shooting,” produced for WVU News
- Best Independent Online Student Publication Winner: Women Beyond Bars a collaborative project between journalism and public relations students led by Teaching Associate Professor Mary Kay McFarland and Associate Professor Geah Pressgrove
- Online/Digital Feature Videography Winner: Molly DeCarli for “Ariel Hill on the value of being uncomfortable” produced for Women Beyond Bars
- Online/Digital Feature Videography Finalist: Jeff McCullough for “Tanisha Spaulding on normal life” produced for Women Beyond Bars
- Best All-Around Television Newscast Finalist: Elisa Schwartzmiller and Jensen Mills for the WVU News Special Edition “Far apart together”
- COVID-19: Video Coverage Finalist: Taylor Hall for “Westover residents finding peace in Amazing Grace” produced for the WVU News Special Edition “Far apart together”
The Webby Awards
Jeffrey Boggess was named an honoree in the Student Video category of the Webby Awards
for “The Rocky Marriage Between Coal and the Opioid Epidemic” produced for 100
Days in Appalachia. The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring
excellence on the Internet.
2020
American Advertising Awards (WV Chapter of American Advertising Federation)
- Gold ADDY: Martin Hall Agency “Don’t Box Me In” First Amendment Day Campaign
- Silver ADDY: Martin Hall Agency ”Don’t Box Me In” cross-platform Campaign
- Silver ADDY: Martin Hall Agency “Don’t Box Me In” T-shirt design
- Silver ADDY: Martin Hall Agency MHA logo, watermark, insignia and brand guideline
book
AVA Awards
- Best Newscast, Gold Award: WVU News "Inside Appalachia-A Story of Hope"
Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts
- Interactive Reality, First place: “The Bodice Project" by Kristen Uppercue, Mark
Schoenster and Savannah Schaffer
- Television Newscast, First place: WVU News Special Edition “A Mental Health Crisis
in America" by Jensen Mills
- Television Sports Story/Feature Short, Award of Excellence: “West Virginia Roughriders”
by Matt Minard
Carnegie-Knight News21 Program
Maxwell Shavers (BSJ, 2020), current Digital Marketing Communications graduate student,
was selected for the Carnegie-Knight News21 Program, a nationwide reporting project
headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism
and Mass Communication that brings student journalists from around the country
together to report and produce in-depth, multimedia projects for major media outlets.
Past outlets have included The Washington Post, NBC News and USA Today.
Hearst Journalism Awards
- Television Feature Award, Fifth Place: Bridge Day by Sarah Poteracki
National Eco Car Mobility Challenge Competition
- Best Social Media Report: Haleigh Fields
- Spirit of Communications: Haleigh Fields
MarCom Awards
- Video/Audio, TV Broadcast/Cable, Gold: WVU News Special Edition Newscast, "Far
Apart Together"
RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Student Award
- Excellence in Audio Reporting: “What Happened to Weirton” podcast series by Ella
Jennings
Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards
- Online In-Depth Reporting, Winner: “Rebuilding Families” by Anna Saab
- Television, Breaking News, Winner: “Campus Shooting” by Shayla Klein
- Collaborative Journalism, Finalist: “Generation Opioids”
- Newspapers, General News, Finalist: “Snow Day” by Daily Athenaeum staff
- Newspapers, Editorial Writing, Finalist: Douglas Soule, Daily Athemaeum Editor–in-Chief
- Collaborative Journalism, Winner: “Generation Opioids” by West Virginia University
and George Washington University
- Art/Graphics, Sports Photography, Finalist: “West Virginia vs. Iowa State” by Duncan
Slade
- Television, Feature Reporting, Winner: “Bridge Day” by Sarah Poteracki
- Television, In-Depth Reporting, Winner: “Inpatient care in the Mountain State"
by Sarah Poteracki
- Television, General News Reporting, Finalist: “Transgender discrimination in the
Mountain State” by Daren Hartwell
- Best Independent Online Student Publication, Winner: “Women Beyond Bars”
Telly Awards
- Best Newscast, Silver Award: WVU News "Gun Control-A Nation Divided"
- Best Newscast, Bronze Award: WVU News "Inside Appalachia - A Story of Hope"
- Online Commercials, Silver Telly: Brand JRNY – Pineville ATV Spot
- Online Commercials, Bronze Telly: Brand JRNY – All Trails Lead to Home Spot
- Immersive and Mixed Reality, Bronze Telly: Bodice Project AR, David Smith’s Immersive
Storytelling Class
- Social Video, Bronze Telly: "Permit Loophole Allowing Appalachian Mines to Sit
Idle" by Sean McCallister
- Non-Broadcast General, Social Issues, Bronze Telly: 100 Days in Appalachia “Bienvenido
a Pupuseria Emerita” (with editing help from Jeffery Boggess)