Trinity College Scoops Awards at Student Media Awards
Posted on: 23 April 2013
Trinity College was the big winner at the recent 13th Student Media Awards . The overall award for Newspaper of the Year went to Trinity News (TN) and Journalist of the Year went Tommy Gavin writing for the University Times.
Trinity News was also successful in a number of the other categories with Dargan Crowley-Long winning Layout and Design of the Year, Andrew Murphy winning Web Designer, George Voronov named Photographer of the Year and TN2 Magazine took Magazine of the Year.
The prizes for Features Writer (News and Politics) and Colour Writer went to Trinity’s James Bennett and Dylan Joyce Ahearne respectively and the People’s Choice award went to Trinity TV.
Irish Independent Operations Editor Ian Mallon (second left) presents the prize for publication of the year to Trinity News staff Aaron Devine, George Voronov, Ronan Burtenshaw and Henry Longden
Speaking after the awards ceremony Trinity News’s Editor Ronan Burtenshaw said: “Last night capped a great year for Trinity News. I’d like to extend a special thanks to our senior editorial staff: Dargan Crowley-Long, Aaron Devine, Ian Curran, Max Sullivan, Anthea Lacchia, Manus Lenihan, Sarah Burns, John Colthurst, Gabriel Beecham, George Vornov,Úna Brennan, Hannah Cogan and Elaine McCahill. Thanks also go to all the students who contributed to the paper this year – we hope they’ve enjoyed it as much as we have.”