Niner Times (print and digital), Midas and Nova Literary-Arts Magazine all won Best of Show awards, and Student Niner Media took home 28 awards total from the N.C. College Media Association conference at Elon University Feb. 28. From our tally, that’s the most Student Niner Media has ever won at NCCMA.
Here’s what all we brought home:
Niner Times
- Best of Show – Newspaper (large campuses)
- Best of Show – Online News (large campuses)
- Cartoon:
- 1st Place: Ava Weaver, “We're here for the CRIMINALS”
- 3rd Place: Caitlin Hanson, “Parking predicament”
- Honorable Mention: Blaise Uy, “Rainy day”
- Digital Storytelling:
- 2nd Place: Ivory Galloway and Emmanuel Perkins, “CAMPUS EDITORIAL: On Sept. 10, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a Utah college event”
- 3rd Place: Kelli Blackburn and Ivory Galloway, “She doesn't like losing. In 2025, Tomekia Reed says it's Charlotte's turn to win.”
- Feature Writing: 1st Place: Davis Cuffe, “Operation ends, fallout remains: Charlotte reckons with 370 Border Patrol arrests”
- Illustration/Graphic: 1st Place: Emma Cathey, “ChatGPT”
- News Writing: 3rd Place: Sunnya Hadavi, “‘Please protect us:’ 131 students share their thoughts on the safety of Charlotte’s light rail”
- Opinion Writing: 1st Place: Noah Hughey, “Opinion: People fear the public, not transit”
- Photography: 1st Place: Campbell Marchant, “Dancers”
- Single- or Two-Page Design: 2nd Place: Sunnya Hadavi, “DEI Cuts at Charlotte”
- Sports Writing: 3rd Place: Davis Cuffe, “Miyu Tsurumaki keeps fighting After beating cancer at 23, Miyu Tsurumaki has a new battle.”
Nova
- Best of Show – Literary Magazine
- Poetry: Honorable Mention: Maya Osaka, “unearthed”
- Fiction:
- 1st Place: Martha Stallman, “NKDA”
- 2nd Place: G.W. McClary, “Ten Easy Pieces”
- Two-Page Spread: 3rd Place: Ben Stadler, “Table of Contents”
Midas
- Best of Show – General Interest Magazine
- Cover: 1st Place: Sarah Carson and Michelle Flores, “Midas”
- Magazine (Article): 3rd Place: Rosemary Brown, “The AI GF Problem”
- Photography/Art:
- 1st Place: Michelle Flores, “Bath of Time”
- 3rd Place: Natalya Ivanna, “What Hath God Wrought”
- Honorable Mention: Nicole Nyugen, “Hypervigilance”
- Design:
- 1st Place: Rue Thi, “Lens”
- Honorable Mention: Mia Primus, “The Technological Shapeshifter”
- Honorable Mention: Giselle Carrasquilla, “Nothing Beats Progress”
Four students (pictured) from Student Niner Media attended the day-long conference, which featured panel discussions, a keynote address featuring WBTV’s David Hodges and breakout sessions. The NCCMA is an organization that supports media operations at public and private colleges and universities in the state.