2024 Student Awards Winners
Cronkite students have won more awards than any other school in the nation. Please take a look at our 2024 winners below.
2024 BIG Innovation Award
The Cronkite Agency
Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Festival of Media Arts
Student News Competition
Best of Festival: Protesters march at Arizona Capitol against anti-queer bills; Amber Victoria Singer
(Radio Hard News Reporting Category)
Radio Feature Category:
Award of Excellence: Ken Koshio marks three years of hiking Piestewa Peak every day; Amber Victoria Singer
Radio Hard News Reporting Category:
First Place: Protesters march at Arizona Capitol against anti-queer bills; Amber Victoria Singer
Television Hard News Category:
Second place: Relocating Rattlesnakes; Tabitha Bland
Television Short Feature Category:
Award of Excellence: Outrigger Connections; Tabitha Bland
Television Newscast (4/5 days per week):
First Place: Cronkite News – October 23, 2023; Pratham Dalal, Sivan Plotkin & Janaé Bradford
Television News Magazine Category:
Second Place: Super Bowl Countdown; Trey Jordan, Ashley Engle & Jonah Krell
Award of Excellence: Cronkite News: Arizona’s Oasis; Zachary Davis & Sivan Plotkin
Student Sports Competition
Video Story/Feature (short) Category:
First Place: Playing Polo; Daniel Stipanovich
Video Sports Story/Feature (long) Category:
Third Place: The Anthony Robles Story; Noelle Blumel
Video Sports Talent (Anchor/Host):
Award of Excellence: Best of Noelle Blumel; Noelle Blumel
Video Sports News Program Category:
Award of Excellence: Cronkite Sports Friday Edition; Nick Borgia, Jimmye Jordan, Matt Venzia & Noelle Blumel
Award of Excellence: Super Bowl Special; Nick Borgia, Jimmye Jordan & Anthony Remedios
Student Audio Competition
Educational Program Category:
First Place: Volunteers throw mud to preserve an ancient artifact at Pueblo Grande Museum Archaeological Park; Amber Victoria Singer
Specialty Program & Podcasts Category:
Awards of Excellence: Inside Objectivity; Autriya Maneshni
Student Interactive Media & Emerging Technologies Competition
Multimedia Storytelling Category:
Second Place: No More Silence; Sierra Alvarez & Logan Camden
Graduate Audio Competition
Second Place: Arizona proposes paying parent caregivers of children with disabilities; Deanna Pistono
Graduate Documentary Competition
Award of Excellence: Finding Grandma Joyce; Samantha Chow
Graduate News Competition
Second Place: How the U.S. Forest Service is using prescribed burns to protect the Kaibab National Forest; Kiersten Edgett (Radio Hard News Reporting Category)
Award of Excellence: “We all just evaporate”: Extreme heat overwhelms Phoenix’s unhoused community; Deanna Pistono (Radio Hard News Reporting Category)
Graduate Sports Competition
First Place: Best of Chrystal Stone; Chrystal Stone (Video Sports Talent Anchor/Host)
Faculty Audio Competition
Best of Festival: 1997: PaRappa the Rapper; Rodmanned Nikpour (Long-Form Production Category)
Long-Form Production Category:
Best of Competition: 1997: PaRappa the Rapper; Rodmanned Nikpour
Communitas Award
Leadership in Community Service
The Cronkite Agency
Hearst Awards
National Writing Championship
Third Place: Keetra Bippus, Arizona State University
National Television Championship
Second Place: Denzen Cortez, Arizona State University
Television Championship runners-up
Finalist: Tabitha Bland, Arizona State University
Special Awards
Best Reporting Technique: “Haitian workers endure harsh living, working conditions in company settlement” — by Keetra Bippus, Arizona State University
Best Use of Television: “Migrant Families” — by Denzen Cortez, Arizona State University
Society of Professional Journalists – Mark of Excellence (National)
Television Sports Reporting: “The Anthony Robles story” — by Noelle Blumel, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Collaborative Journalism: “America after Roe” — by Staff, Carnegie-Knight News21, Arizona State University, Florida International University, Ohio Wesleyan University, St. Bonaventure University, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of North Texas, University of Oklahoma and University of Oregon
SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards National Finalist
Radio Feature: “Outrigger community” — by Kiersten Edgett, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Region 11 Mark of Excellence Awards Winners
Print/Online
General News Reporting (Large)
Finalist: MMIP task forces are given years to solve a problem centuries in the making — by Alexis Waiss, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
In-Depth Reporting (Large)
Winner: Paying to be unpaid: The cost of unpaid internships — by Madeline Nguyen, State Press Magazine, Arizona State University
Sports Writing (Large)
Winner: 25 years later: Behind Bryce Drew’s 1998 buzzer beater were the unknowns of March Madness — by Noah Furtado, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Finalist: Pancake blocks to pancake stacks: Eating ‘a chore’ for offensive linemen — by Logan Stanley, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Finalist: A gambler’s paradise? For some, the industry’s extreme growth leads to addiction and worse — by Sam Stern, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Editorial/Opinion Writing
Winner: Opinion writing — by Aaron Stigile, The State Press, Arizona State University
Finalist: Opinion writing — by Mia Osmonbekov, The State Press, Arizona State University
Breaking News Photography
Finalist: SAG-AFTRA Arizona members rally as part of national strike for TV, film worker protections, wages — by Kiersten Edgett, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Sports Photography
Finalist: The Sun Devils hit the road to face No. 5 ranked Huskies — by Calvin Stewart, The State Press, Arizona State University
Best Use of Multimedia
Finalist: Ken Koshio marks three years of hiking Piestewa Peak every day — by Amber Victoria Singer, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Finalist: Finding Grandma Joyce — by Samantha Chow, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
News Videography
Finalist: America after Roe: Helping mothers — by Trilce Estrada Olvera, Carnegie-Knight News21, Arizona State University
Feature Videography
Winner: Pulse: The Culture Fest Documentary — by Drake Presto, The State Press, Arizona State University
Audio
Radio News Reporting
Winner: Burning the forests — by Kiersten Edgett, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Finalist: Heat deaths — by Deanna Pistono, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Radio Feature
Winner: Outrigger community — by Kiersten Edgett, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Finalist: Paying caregivers — by Deanna Pistono, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Radio Sports Reporting
Winner: AZ horse racing in flux — by Austin Hepola, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Podcast (Narrative)
Podcast (Narrative)
Winner: Inside Objectivity — by Autriya Maneshni, Cronkite ASU, Arizona State University
Broadcast
Finalist: Relocating rattlesnakes — by Tabitha Bland, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Television Feature Reporting
Winner: Outrigger connections — by Tabitha Bland, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Television In-Depth Reporting
Winner: Sweltering Saguaros — by Danny Stipanovich, Jason Marmon, Seungshin Seo, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Finalist: El Paso migrants — by Miriam Ordonez, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Television Sports Reporting
Winner: The Anthony Robles story — by Noelle Blumel, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Finalist: Worries about wagers — by Jack Pierson, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Finalist: Robinson going for gold — by Beatriz Martinez, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Best All-Around Television News Magazine
Winner: Arizona Oasis — by Staff, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
All Platform
Arts/Entertainment/Fashion Journalism
Finalist: Frame by frame: ASU animators draw their imaginations into reality — by Fatima Gabir, State Press Magazine, Arizona State University
Campus Reporting
Finalist: USG adjourns meeting early over physical and verbal disruptions from outside protest — by Phineas Hogan, Alysa Horton, The State Press, Arizona State University
Science/Environment/Climate Reporting
Finalist: Prayer run — by John Leos, Nellija Locmele, Tyler Bender, Megan Swing, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Finalist: A wall runs through it — by Trilce Estrada Olvera, Makepeace Sitlhou, Hakob Karapetyan, Cronkite News, Arizona State University
Webby Award
“America After Roe” — Carnegie-Knight News21
Buffett Foundation Fellows Mingson Lau and Trilce Estrada Olvera, Arizona State University