Toronto, ON – March 15, 2011 – Humber College Journalism students have won two highly coveted College Media Advisors convention Apple awards, as well as 26 top prizes in the 2011 Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) in New York City.
The Apple Awards went to Humber TV News for Best TV Broadcast and @Humber Radio News for Best Radio Broadcast. The CSPA awards include eight first place prizes for work by Humber students in work in online, magazine and video, including Best Podcast, Best Multimedia Presentation, Best General Feature and Best Design for a magazine digital and online edition.
"These awards are wonderful news for our students," said Mike Karapita, Humber Journalism Coordinator. "We thank our students for their dedication and hard work, and we thank the judges at Columbia for honouring Humber in this way."
Humber students swept several CSPA categories, winning first, second and third prizes for magazine design, in-depth feature writing, and personal opinion. In all, the college won eight first-place, eight second-place and 10 third-place prizes.
“It’s thrilling to win. It was a nice feeling to read my name on the list of awards. And it made for a great call home to mom and dad,” said Meg Banks, a second-year accelerated journalism student, who won first for best podcast and third for best online secondary coverage. “The awards show how well prepared Humber students are for the industry now and what it will look like in the future.”
Last fall, Humber Journalism won another 16 awards from Columbia for work in newspaper, including two first-place prizes for page design.
About Humber Journalism
For more than 40 years Humber Journalism has been training journalists from across the Greater Toronto Area, across Canada, and around the world. Our graduates work in every aspect of communication, from hard news journalism, to sports, entertainment, lifestyle and much more.
About Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
Established in 1967, Humber is one of Canada’s leading postsecondary institutions. Committed to student success through excellence in teaching and learning, Humber serves more than 22,000 full-time students and 56,000 continuing education registrants. With an internationally recognized reputation for quality learning, Humber offers a wide-range of career-focused opportunities for students to personalize their educational path. Our 150 full-time programs include four-year bachelor’s degrees, two and three-year diplomas, one and two-year certificates, and apprenticeship training.~ As a founding member of Polytechnics Canada, Humber offers students the opportunity to participate in applied research projects that find solutions for issues confronting small and medium-sized enterprises. Humber is one of 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges as identified by the League for Innovation, and the League’s only Canadian board member. Humber finished first in its class in the highly regarded Community College Survey of Student Engagement in 2009 in each of four categories, including Active and Collaborative Learning, Student Effort, Academic Challenge and Student-Faculty Interaction. More than 85 per cent of Humber graduates are employed within six months of completing their studies.
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Note: photos and a list of student winners by category available upon request.
For more information:
Andrew Leopold/ Kevin Gonsalves
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
Marketing and Communications
416.675.6622 ext. 4296/5778
Andrew cell: 416.518.8989
andrew.leopold@humber.ca / kevin.gonsalves@humber.ca
