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AEJMC announces 2025 VIM Fest winners

Students from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications garnered 10 awards at the AEJMC internationally competitive Festival of Visual & Interactive Media or "VIM Fest" awards


Carolina News & Reporter writers, photojournalists take top SC honors

Seven students from the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications took top honors in a recent statewide contest for collegiate journalists.


 SJMC students win 25 ADDY awards

Advertising and visual communications students from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications earned 25 American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards from the Midland's Chapter. The awards were presented at the chapter's "Under the Stars" gala on Feb. 22.


BEA Festival of Media Arts awards announced

The Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Art has announced that two SJMC students have earned national recognition for work produced for The Carolina News. The awards will be presented at the annual conference in Las Vegas in April.

Zane Heinlein

Zane Heinlein - TV Short Feature: Award of Excellence

More Gen-Z students are enrolling in trade schools, helping fill a skilled worker shortage, and vocational programs nationwide are seeing record enrollment.  Zane Heinlein was the photographer and reporter for this story. 


RTNDA honors 7 students

Elizabeth Martinez and Rick Peterson
Elizabeth Martinez was named student journalist of the year.

Seven  students from the broadcast journalism capstone course Carolina News were honored by the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas with top awards in several categories.

The students garnered four first-place awards and three second place awards.

Elizabeth Martinez, who graduated in May 2024 and is now a multimedia content producer for Spectrum News in Greenville, South Carolina, was named the Haney Howell Student Journalist of the Year.


Visual communications student wins national logo design competition

Carrie Hriber

Senior visual communications major and Honors College student Callie Hribar brought home top honors in the logo design competition sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. 

With the first place win, Hribar received a $250 cash prize, and her logo will be featured on all branded ads, signage and promotional material during the 2025 AEJMC conference in San Francisco. Hribar submitted her entry this spring as part of an assignment in the Multimedia for Visual Communications course taught by associate professor Van Kornegay.


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