In addition to this recognition, ENN earned seven other individual and organizational Apple Awards, highlighting excellence in crisis coverage, opinion writing, photography, and multimedia journalism.
, Ƶ’s student-run news organization, was recognized with the College Media Association’s top honor – the Big Apple Award – at the in New York on March 1. The award recognizes the single best student news organization among schools with an enrollment of 3,000-9,999 students.
ENN also earned seven other individual and organizational Apple Awards, including first place in crisis coverage for its reporting on Hurricane Helene.
This year’s awards contest included hundreds of entries from college media outlets from across the country. Below is a list of the Ƶ winners.
- Apple Award – Best of Division II Schools | Ƶ News Network
- 1st Place – Best Crisis Coverage | Monika Jurevicius, Anjolina Fantaroni, Alex Nettles | ; ;
- 1st Place – Best Opinion Column | Alex Nettles |
- 1st Place – Best Newsletter | Sarah T. Moore |
- 1st Place – Best News Photography | Ethan Wu |
- 1st Place – Best Feature Photography | Erin Martin |
- 2nd Place – Best Multimedia Package | Erin Martin, Ryan Kupperman and Abby Gravely |
- 3rd Place – Best Newspaper | The Pendulum |
Ƶ students attending the National College Media Convention included Charlotte Pfabe ’27, Lilliana Molina ’27, Kathan Gandhi ’27 and Miles Hayford ’27. They were accompanied by Kelly Furnas, senior lecturer in journalism and ENN adviser.
Ƶ News Network is a student-run news organization covering Ƶ and the broader Alamance County community. It includes The Pendulum newspaper, “ENN Tonight” broadcast, elonnewsnetwork.com website, as well as social media accounts, podcasts and newsletters. regardless of their experience level, major or year in school.