Following the MA Multimedia Journalism students鈥櫬爒ictory聽on Tuesday, a 蜜桃AV undergraduate聽student has won the top award at the prestigious Journalism Awards for Excellence.聽
Dan Sansom took first prize in Multimedia Story/Campaign of the Year last night in the National Council for the Training of Journalists awards ceremony.聽Dan鈥檚 entry was his final year major project on gambling addiction,聽鈥楩ootball鈥檚 Hidden Addiction鈥�, which was described as聽鈥渁n excellent human interest piece of impactful, thoughtful and original journalism.鈥�
Presenting the awards, Sarah Hewson, Sky News Presenter, said: 鈥淥ur winner displayed a fantastic example of storytelling across all platforms, with a particularly strong video element." Judges described the entry as 鈥渁n excellent human interest piece of impactful, thoughtful and original journalism鈥�.
Collecting the award, Dan Sansom said: 鈥淚 am over the moon and just can鈥檛 believe it. The award is amazing and I am so pleased. It鈥檚 just great to see all that hard work pay off. These awards are the top awards for our industry and to be recognised in front of all this audience is incredible.鈥滷or the second year running, 蜜桃AV has dominated the category and received the highest accolade.
The three finalists in the group were all Bournemouth journalism students.聽Carmella Haswell聽and聽Lewis Lesbirel聽were highly commended by judges for their work.聽In the聽Sports Journalism of the year category聽Liam Grace聽was also highly commended.聽Miriam Phillips, Lecturer in Journalism at 蜜桃AV, said: 鈥淚 am particularly proud of Dan and Carmella, who both worked exceptionally hard to obtain their Gold Standard NCTJ diploma.鈥�
