CT SPJ college contest winners

2023-2024 academic year

The entries this year showcased the strong and important work that journalists at Connecticut colleges and universities are doing, and are an indication of the talent and excellent training that these journalists are going to bring into the workforce in the coming years.

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all the students and advisors who entered. 

If you are a student journalist or an advisor to a college publication in CT and you’d like to enter next year, get in touch! Email mshanahan@connecticutspj.org.

Certificates will be mailed to the addresses listed on the entries, unless otherwise requested.

Written reporting

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BREAKING NEWS

First Place:  CT DOJ investigating Quinnipiac PA program’s compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Cat Murphy and Katie Langley

FEATURE STORY

First Place: ‘Emerging’ through art 

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Katie Langley

Second Place: Locked in

Crescent magazine; Jay’Mi Vazquez

Third Place: ‘I felt kind of helpless’: Quinnipiac students from Maine reflect on Lewiston mass shooting

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Cameron Levasseur

GENERAL REPORTING

First Place: Quinnipiac’s $48M hedge fund portfolio

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Cat Murphy

Second Place: University projects enrollment increase

Southern News; Jaylen Carr, and Jay’Mi Vazquez

Third Place: Religious tensions on campus: Muslim and Jewish student perspectives

Central Connecticut State University; Savanna Yelling

SPORTS FEATURE STORY

First Place: Quinnipaiac’s Lexi Morse’s grandparents traveled from Florida for Senior Day

Q30 Television; Gage Kilborne

Second Place: Three titles, a fraction of the recognition

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Ethan Hurwitz

Third Place: Breaking barriers: First female football coach in program history

Crescent magazine; Peter Schmitz

SPORTS NEWS STORY

First Place: What happened to TK?

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Cat Murphy

Second Place: Some CCSU athletes claimed their mental health was ignored

Central Connecticut State University; Kristin Rose

Third Place: Saint Peter’s Peacocks’ postseason buzzer beater over Quinnipiac, second-by-second

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Ethan Hurwitz

Photo/video

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FEATURE PHOTO

First Place: Southern Connecticut Skate University

Crescent magazine; Ty Abdul-Shakoor

Second Place: Wounded Quinnipiac comes up just short against Boston College on banner night

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Peyton McKenzie

Third Place: One step at a time

Crescent magazine; Tyrese Abdul-Shakoor

NEWS PHOTO

First Place: Pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel demonstrators inside Hamden Memorial Town Hall

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Jack Spiegel

Second Place: QTHON raises $141K for local children’s hospital

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Aidan Sheedy

VIDEO STORYTELLING

First Place: Quinnipiac technician raises 2023 National Championship banner

Q30 Television; Andrew Reynolds

Second Place: What to know about Quinnipiac’s three new buildings: Inside look at the ‘University of the Future”

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Jack Muscatello, Cat Murphy

Third Place: Built from the ground up

Crescent magazine; Robert Hahn

Design

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NON-PAGE 1 LAYOUT

First Place: Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 94, Issue 2, Pages 10-11

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Peyton McKenzie, Cameron Levasseur, Ethan Hurwitz

PAGE 1 LAYOUT

First Place: Nov. 8, 2023, Page 1

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Cat Murphy and Peyton McKenzie

Opinion writing

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EDITORIAL 

First Place: A campus controversy: Why Chat GPT is an education essential

Quinnipiac Chronicle; A.J. Newth

Second Place: A Sandy Hook survivor’s perspective on redefining gun violence

Quinnipiac Chronicle; Geneva Cunningham

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