Oxygen.ie Student Media Award
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The Oxygen.ie National Student Media Awards are an annual All-Ireland student journalism
competition run by Oxygen.ie newspaper. The awards have built up a prestige making them "ireland's premier student awards".
aimed at third-level students, has run a student journalism competition.
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
competition run by Oxygen.ie newspaper. The awards have built up a prestige making them "ireland's premier student awards".
History
Since 2000, Oxygen.ie, a websiteWebsite
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
aimed at third-level students, has run a student journalism competition.
Format
As of the 2010 awards, submissions were invited in the following categories- BlogBlogA blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
of the Year - Editor of the Year, previous winners include:
- University College DublinUniversity College DublinUniversity College Dublin ) - formally known as University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin is the Republic of Ireland's largest, and Ireland's second largest, university, with over 1,300 faculty and 17,000 students...
- University ObserverThe University ObserverThe University Observer is a fortnightly Berliner-sized newspaper distributed throughout the campus of University College, Dublin . It was launched in 1994 by University College Dublin Students' Union...
- University Observer
- University College Dublin
- Colour Writer of the Year
- Features Writer of the Year (Arts & Popular Culture)
- Features Writer of the Year (News and Politics)
- Film script of the Year
- Headline Award for Journalism relating to Mental HealthMental healthMental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...
or Suicide PreventionSuicide preventionSuicide prevention is an umbrella term for the collective efforts of local citizen organizations, mental health practitioners and related professionals to reduce the incidence of suicide.... - Iriseoireacht i nGaeilge (Raidió)
- Iriseoireacht i nGaeilge (Scríofa)
- JournalistJournalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
of the Year - Journalist of the Year - National Press
- Layout and Design of the Year
- Léiriúcháin Teilifíse i nGaeilge - Faisnéis agus Drámaíocht
- Magazine of the Year
- Dublin City UniversityDublin City UniversityDublin City University is a university situated between Glasnevin, Santry, Ballymun and Whitehall on the Northside of Dublin in Ireland...
- Flux
- Dublin City University
- NewspaperNewspaperA newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
of the Year, previous winners:- Trinity College Dublin
- The University TimesThe University TimesThe University Times is a student newspaper in Trinity College. The newspaper was established in 2009. It is an independent newspaper that is produced with the financial support of Trinity College Dublin, Students’ Union.-Format:...
- Trinity NewsTrinity NewsTrinity News is the student newspaper of Trinity College, and the oldest student newspaper in Ireland. It is an independent newspaper which reports on the news and views of the students and staff of Dublin University...
- The University Times
- University College Dublin
- The University Observer|University Observer
- Trinity College Dublin
- News Photographer of the Year
- Photographer of the Year
- Short AnimationAnimationAnimation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
of the Year - Short Film of the Year, previous winner Rouzbeh RashidiRouzbeh RashidiRouzbeh Rashidi is an Iranian avant-garde filmmaker associated with the Remodernist film movement....
- People's Choice Award
- Radio DJ of the Year
- Radio Production of the Year (Arts and Features)
- Radio Production of the Year (News)
- RSA Award for Journalism Relating to Road Safety
- Short StoryShort StoryShort Story is a piece for violin and piano composed by George Gershwin in 1927.Gershwin composed the duet from two other short works that premiered at the same time as his Three Preludes. He combined a section of the "Novelette in Fourths" and another slower work to create this piece....
of the Year - Small College Production
- Society Publication of the Year
- Sports Photographer of the Year
- Sports Writer of the Year, previous winners:
- Dublin City University
- The College ViewThe College ViewThe College View is the independent publication of Dublin City University. It is published on a fortnightly basis during term-time. Currently, the newspaper has News, Sport, Arts , Comment, Features and Gaeilge sections The newspaper was first published in the year 2000 after changing its name from...
- The College View
- Dublin City University
- Travel Writer of the Year
- TV Production of the Year
- Web designWeb designWeb design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
er of the Year - WebsiteWebsiteA website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
of the Year, previous winners include:- NUI Galway
- Sin.ie
- NUI Galway
Judges
All but one of the awards are judged by media professionals, who have included:- Geraldine KennedyGeraldine KennedyGeraldine Kennedy is an Irish journalist, former politician, and former editor of The Irish Times newspaper.She became the first female editor of The Irish Times upon the departure of Conor Brady in 2002. Kennedy had held several senior positions at the paper; at the time of her appointment to the...
, Editor of The Irish TimesThe Irish TimesThe Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays... - Ruth Scott, 2fmRTÉ 2fmRTÉ 2fm, or 2FM as it is more commonly referred to, is Raidió Teilifís Éireann's second national radio station. It broadcasts popular music programming aimed at a young Irish audience.- History :...
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