Showcase: AWARDS
UNT's award-winning Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism produces both students and journalists who have received state, national and international recognition in all of parts of the profession.
Thorne Anderson joined the news division in the Mayborn School of Journalism this fall. Here is one of his photos published in Time magazine October 20, 2009.
Students of the Mayborn Graduate Institute published a series in the Longview News-Journal on the anniversary of desegregation in Longview, Texas (Sept 13, 2009).
Graduate student alumnae, Marissa Alanis, and graduate student, Sarah Perry, won 1st and 2nd place, respectively, in the investigative reporting essay competition at the 2009 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.
Six students were awarded the 2009-2010 Mayborn Graduate Student Scholarships: Elise Brooking, Noah Bunn, Tasha Hayton, Rebecca Hoeffner, Sarah Perry and Jayme Rutledge.
Copywriter Dave Fox and art director Sean Leonard, a creative team in the Advertising Portfolio class, won Best Campaign in the National Student Addy Awards for their U-Haul campaign. The ad was also showcased in CMYK, a national magazine featuring student creative.
Belo Scholarships were awarded to Christena Dowsett and Lindsay Barber.
Press Club Scholarships were awarded to Shaina Zucker, Kerry Solan, and Kip Mooney.
Two finalists for One Show Student Competition – Johnny Bolsinger (writer) and Nathan Beasley (art director)
Justin Tennison – Photographer’s Forum Magazine 28th Annual Student Photography Contest Finalist
Two students wrote cover stories for the Dallas Morning News Metro - Victoria Smithee and Matt Goodman.
Michael Mooney will be featured in the 2009 anthologies for The Best American Crime Reporting and The Best Sports Reporting. Mooney is a staff writer at New Times, a Village Voice Media alt-weekly based in Fort Lauderdale.
Lowell Brown, Mayborn student, and alum Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe from the Denton Record-Chronicle won a national award for the “Behind the Shale” narrative series on gas drilling. It’s a first-place award in “Outstanding Small Market Reporting-Print” from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Since 2005, students have won several awards for investigative journalism for the department's Light of Day project on Taser use in Texas, including an award from the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas. In 2008, alumna Rachel Slade won the H.M Fentress Award for outstanding service as a newspaper intern.
In 2003, the UNT Collegiate Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists won National Chapter of the Year.