Media Awards: Scottish Student Journalism Awards 2015, winners

A STUDENT at Glasgow Clyde College has been named Scottish Student Journalist of the Year, after scooping two category prizes, including for a book of letters penned by members of the public, imagining their ‘future Scotland’.

At the Scottish Student Journalism Awards – held last night in Glasgow – Catrina Cochrane took the top prize, in addition to the category titles, Feature Writer of the Year and Multimedia Publication of the Year.

The latter title was for ‘Dearest Scotland’ – for more info, click here, this media release on allmediascotland.com – while the former was a feature not yet published (but perhaps very soon to be) about Roza Salih, one of the so-called ‘Glasgow Girls’, who took on the authorities about the way failed asylum seekers were being treated.

Among the other prize winners at the event – which was hosted by BBC sports reporter, Jane Lewis, and featured a guest speech by the acclaimed Scots novelist, Christopher Brookmyre – was Alison Gilchrist, who took the News Story of the Year and Scoop of the Year titles.

Cochrane has recently completed the second of her two year-long HND Practical Journalism course.

Also among the winners was Glasgow Caledonian University’s Spotlight Productions – named recipients of an award given annually in memory of the former Daily Record and The Herald journalist, Calum Macdonald, who died, aged 32, from cancer – seven years ago.

The event was organised by students from Glasgow Clyde College: Amy Hepburn, Francesca Arcari, Tayler Fulton, Nicole Barker and Joanna Zuchowska.

The winners’ list reads:

Column of the Year

Winner: Douglas Greenwood – Edinburgh Napier University

Commended: Phoebe-Inglis-Holmes – Glasgow Caledonian University

Nominated: Jasmine Patel – Glasgow Caledonian University

Peter Cassidy – Glasgow Clyde College

Richard Lilley – Glasgow Clyde College

Multimedia Publication of the Year

Winner: Catrina Cochrane – Glasgow Clyde College

Commended: Faran Rafi – University of Strathclyde

Nominated: Callie Carson – Fife College

Peter Docherty – Glasgow Caledonian University

Arts and Entertainment Story of the Year

Winner: Peter Docherty – Glasgow Caledonian University

Commended: Peter Cassidy – Glasgow Clyde College

Nominated: Greg Smith – Strathclyde University

Jenny Cleeton – Glasgow Clyde College

Joyce Robertson – Glasgow Clyde College

Samantha Carmichael – Glasgow Clyde College

Sarah Jane Mcdonald – University of the West of Scotland

Ealasaid MacAlister – Glasgow Clyde College

Broadcast Story of the Year

Winner: Sean Hayman, Martin Rowbottom, Ismay Hutton, Rachel Bar, Hollie Irvine, Cara Halliwell – University of Stirling

Commended: Peter Dorman – Glasgow Caledonian University

Nominated: Colin Robertson – University of the West of Scotland

Franchesca Hashemi – University of the West of Scotland

Kevin O’Donnell, Jide Olanipekun, Kevin Boyle, Kaitlyn O’Brien, Ghader Mashhadi – University of Stirling

Student Publication of the Year

Winner: Browser – Fife College

Commended: Frowning – Edinburgh Napier University

Nominated: The Edit – Glasgow Caledonian University

Start Me Up – University of the West of Scotland

Calum MacDonald Memorial Award

Winner: Spotlight Productions – Glasgow Caledonian University

Commended: Peter Cassidy – Glasgow Clyde College

Nominated: Margaret Ann MacLeod – City of Glasgow College

Rebecca Weinberg – City of Glasgow College

Sports Story of the Year

Winner: Conor Cartwright – Glasgow Clyde College

Commended: Neil Sargent – University of Stirling

Nominated: Catrina Cochrane – Glasgow Clyde College

Colan Lamont – Glasgow Caledonian University

Sabine Kurz – University of Strathclyde

News Story of the Year

Winner: Alison Gilchrist – University of Strathclyde

Commended: Neil Sargent – University of Strathclyde

Nominated: Colin Robertson – University of the West of Scotland

Craig Todd – Glasgow Caledonian University

Jenny Cleeton – Glasgow Clyde College

Morven Quin – Glasgow Caledonian University

Rebecca McCurdy – Glasgow Clyde College

Sabine Kurz – University of Stirling

Feature of the Year

Winner: Catrina Cochrane – Glasgow Clyde College

Commended: Derek McLaughlin – Glasgow Caledonian University

Nominated: Colan Lamont – Glasgow Caledonian University

Colin Roberston – University of the West of Scotland

Conor Cartwright – Glasgow Clyde College

Erin McDermott – University of Stirling

Fraser Rummens – University of Stirling

Peter Cassidy – Glasgow Clyde College

Rachel Munford – University of Strathclyde

Scoop of the Year

Winner: Alison Gilchrist – University of Strathclyde

Commended: Sean Haynan, Martin Rowbottom, Ismay Hutton, Rachel Bar, Hollie Irvine, Cara Halliwell – University of Stirling

Nominated: Catrina Cochrane – Glasgow Clyde College

Neil Sargent – University of Stirling

Student Journalist of the Year

Winner: Catrina Cochrane – Glasgow Clyde College

Commended: Conor Cartwright – Glasgow Clyde College