2020-21 Winners
JSOC's External Award Winners
Each year, JSOC partners with several big-name publications to give journalism students a chance to have their hard work recognized on a greater scale. Here are our 2020-21 external winners:
Mentors for aspiring racialized politicians are in short supply
Ameera Ali, third-year student. iPolitics’ BIPOC student winner.
Science itself is under the microscope, thanks to the pandemic
Pascale Malenfant, third-year student. iPolitics’ general winner.
‘Unscrupulous criminals’: the dangers behind Canada’s counterfeit beauty industry
Miranda Caley, third-year student. CTV Ottawa’s winner.
Activists look to restore hope in Ottawa’s homeless youth
Emily Vaz, second-year student. Ottawa Life Magazine’s winner.
Pandemic Pregnancies
Abigael Lynch, third-year student. Ottawa Magazine’s winner.
JSOC's Internal Award Winners
This year, JSOC had the privilege of providing internal awards for class-written work and pieces already published by student media. The following students received certificates of excellence and cash prizes:
Best Audio: Midweek
Natasha Bulowski, fourth-year student.
Best BIPOC: #BlackLivesMatter — Where is Social Media Taking the Black Lives Matter Movement
Erin Wai, third-year student.
Best Infographic: Benefits of Art Therapy
Maryse Matar, third-year student.
Best Long-form: Pandemic intensifies silent sorrow of Canada’s asylum seekers
Rachel Watts, third-year student.
Best Short-form: Canada’s child welfare system needs to be torn down and rebuilt to end its anti-Indigenous racism, critics say
Ameera Ali and Sydney Wray, third-year students.
Best Photostory: New Normal
Manuel Baechlin, second-year student.
Best Photostory: Pandemic Time Capsule
Nairah Ahmed, third-year student.
Best Multimedia: COVID consequences: Ottawa’s Syrian community acutely affected by education, language barriers during pandemic
Paige Peacock, fourth-year student.
Best First Year: A movement, not a moment: How Nigeria’s #EndSARS continues to influence the world
Dominique Gené, first-year student.
Best First Year: University of Waterloo gets weepy with map of best places to cry
Angel Xing, first-year student.