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.