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Congratulations Kyle LaFerriere for reaching the SPJ Finals!

Eric Stanley photo by Kyle LaFerriere

Big congrats to The Commonwealth Times’ photography editor Kyle LaFerriere! He’s reached the Society of Professional Journalists finals for his photograph of VCU violinist Eric Stanley.

VCU Student Media 2010-2011 Recap

We had ourselves a little in-house gathering last week, where members of each organization sat down for good food and conversation before wrapping things up for the school year. As you may remember from last week’s post, we’ve won a couple awards this year AND received the wonderful opportunity to cover VCU’s Final Four Run. Watch the video below to see all that we’ve achieved:

Student media organizations get recognized in SPJ, VPA awards

Mel Kobran, Adam Stern and Kyle LaFerriere receiving The Commonwealth Times award for Best All Around Non-Daily Newspaper.

This weekend students from The Commonwealth Times, Ink Magazine and Rams Review traveled to Norfolk for the Society of Professional Journalists Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards and the Virginia Press Association awards. The region includes universities and colleges from Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia and were for the 2010 calendar year.

The Commonwealth Times won twice as many awards as last year and did extremely well in the photography and design categories. Take a look at the impressive list of awards below.

All photos by Pat Kane

SPJ Mark of Excellence Award

Kyle LaFerriere, The Commonwealth Times' photography editor receiving an award at SPJ's Regional 2 conference.

The Commonwealth Times

Breaking News Photography
• Third Place: Hundreds Mourn – by Zack Gibson

Feature Photography
• First Place: Best Friends Day – by Kyle Laferriere

General News Photography
• First Place: Violinist Eric Stanley – by Kyle Laferriere

Photo Illustration
• Second Place: Dorm Smoking Ban – by

Mel Kobran, The Commonwealth Times' managing editor/photographer receives an award for her photo illustration.

Mel Kobran

Sports Photography

• Second Place: Sanders Dunk Poster – by Kyle Laferriere

Best All-Around Non-Daily Student Newspaper
• Third Place: The Commonwealth Times Staff

Breaking News Reporting
• First Place: Marshall: disabled kids are God’s punishment – by Kelsey Radcliffe

• Second Place: Protest of more than 1,000 – by Erica Terrini

Ink Magazine

Ink's Editor-In-Chief Christine Erickson receives Ink Magazine's award for Best Student Magazine.

Best Student Magazine
• Third Place: Ink

Rams Review

Best Independent Online Student

Rams Reviews' Ryan Murphy accepting their award for Best Independent Online Student Publication from the SPJ.

Publication
• Third Place: Rams Review

Virginia Press Association Certificate of Merit

The Commonwealth Times

Kyle Laferriere, Mel Kobran, staff
First Place; Excellence of front page
Third Place; Sports photo

Adam Stern, Kyle Laferriere
First Place; Excellence of sports pages

Mel Kobran
Third Place; general news photo

The Commonwealth Times Staff
Second Place; Excellence of general makeup

Hannah Swann
First Place; Art – Illustrations

Adam Stern
First Place; Sports Writing

Matt Schmidt
Second Place; Art Illustrations

Student media leaders help cover VCU Final Four

VCU’s rise to the Final Four during the National College Athletic Association’s tournament shined the spotlight on not only the school, but the Student Media Center as well. Locally and nationally, student leaders from various SMC organizations stepped up to the plate for special reports, or to provide their expert opinion.

The Commonwealth Times appeared in the following media outlets:

CBS

Comcast Sports Network

The Houston Chronicle (Adam Stern, Sports Editor)

The Houston Daily Cougar (Adam Stern, Sports Editor):

• Final Soundoff

The Pulse (Adam Stern, Sports Editor):

• The Pulse on Campus: Adam Stern Interview
  

• The Richmond Times-Dispatch (Erica Terrini, Executive Editor)

1. VCU Nation: Campus News (+ a video from WVCW’s Michael Campbell & Mark Turner)
2. 825 VCU Students en route to Final Four via Lottery
3. Commemorative T-shirts flying out of VCU campus stores
4. Final Four stages: VCU students prepare for game day

WVCW appeared in …

• 106.7 in Washington DC: Parker & Parker (Mark Turner, music director)
• Cleveland Talk Sports
• ESPN: IT’S ON: College Championship Smack Talk on ooVoo (Mark Turner, Music Director)
• CNBC

Rams Review‘s video was featured on …

ESPN

Ink’s first issue of the semester is NOW out!

Make sure to pick up Ink’s newest issue, which came out late February.

You can stop by the Student Media Center, 817 W. Broad St., to get your free copy that is filled with stellar content.

Spring 2011 Sovo Fair

See what it takes to be a part of VCU Student Media, come to the SOVO Fair this Friday at The Student Commons!

The VCU Student Media Center will be at the SOVO Fair. Come see how you can get involved with Amendment, WVCW , Commonwealth Times , Ink Magazine , Poictesme and Mesh Media/VCU Rams Review . It’s this Friday from 10 a.m.-12 p.m on the second floor of the Student Commons.

All experience levels welcome.