Emerge Media Award Nominees Ian Holliday, Pauline Holdsworth, Nicole Gibillini and Ian Wood
Four UBC journalism students have been nominated for the inaugural Emerge Media Awards.
The awards, which are administered by the University of Guelph-Humber, honour student work in journalism, communications and media studies across Canada.
Out of five nominations in the videography category, two are from the UBC j-school.
Nicole Gibillini and Ian Wood are nominated for their video, SRO SOS. It examines the poor conditions in single-room occupancy hotels in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
The video, which was initially a final project for the advanced video class, was published last December in the Vancouver Courier.
The second nomination in the video category is Ian Holliday and Pauline Holdsworth’s video, From Pacific to plate: The tale of a sustainable coho salmon. It illustrates how fish make it from the catch to the table.
The story ran in February 2014, on the school’s student publication, The Thunderbird.
Holliday was also nominated in the audio storytelling and written word categories.
Both stories were produced as assignments during Holliday’s first year at the j-school.
His Thunderbird piece, Vancouver experiment in affordable condos fails to live up to hype, was nominated for writing. And a class assignment, Vancouver Aquarium’s Ling Cod Egg Mass Survey 2014, was nominated in the audio category.
The panel of judges includes 31 professionals including Paul Berton the editor in chief for the Hamilton Spectator, Rose Pereira the art director for Chatelaine and Dianne Rinehart a writer for the Toronto Star.
Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on April 20.
