Daily Bruin investigation top in nation; staff wins numerous awards
By Farzad Mashhood
May 5, 2011 1:11 p.m.
The Daily Bruin was named the best college news website and the second best newspaper in the region by the Society of Professional Journalists. A Bruin investigation also was the national winner for in-depth reporting.
At Saturday’s SPJ awards banquet, The Bruin earned awards in 16 categories in Region 11, which includes schools in California, Arizona, Nevada, Guam, Hawaii and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Tuesday, SPJ named Over and Back, an investigation of the recruitment of basketball players from Cameroon led by staffers Matt Stevens and Maya Sugarman, the national winner for in-depth reporting. Its online component, dailybruin.com/overandback, was one of two national finalists for online in-depth reporting.
Work from Over and Back, a project that involved more than a dozen staffers, with assistance from the Bridget O’Brien Foundation, won regional first place awards for online in-depth reporting, print in-depth reporting and feature photography. This is The Bruin’s first national winner since being named Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper in 2006.
Prime by the Daily Bruin, a quarterly lifestyle magazine, won third place for student magazine.
La Gente, a newsmagazine published UCLA Student Media, also The Bruin’s publisher, won first place for student magazine. La Gente’s staff are also separate from The Bruin’s.
Below is a full list of The Bruin’s awards from Saturday:
First place:
Website
Online in-depth reporting (for dailybruin.com/overandback)
In-depth reporting (for work from Over and Back)
Feature photography (for work from Over and Back)
Second place:
All-around newspaper
General column writing (Avni Nijhawan)
Online sports reporting (for Injured Athletes)
Sports photography (for Bear Hug)
Radio feature (for Sex ed revamped)
Television in-depth reporting (for the Hip Hop Appreciate Month package)
Third place:
Student magazine (for Prime’s World Issue)
Radio sports reporting (for a profile of UCLA boxing club member Kyler Richie)
Breaking news photography (for a photo from the John Wooden vigil)
General news photography (for a photo from 2010 USAC election night)
Feature photography (for photos of UCLA Dragon Boat)
Breaking news reporting (for the John Wooden obituary)
