Oxygen.ie Student Media Award

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".^[1][2]

History

Since 2000, Oxygen.ie, a website aimed at third-level students, has run a student journalism competition.

Format

As of the 2010 awards, submissions were invited in the following categories^[3]

• Blog of the Year
• Editor of the Year, previous winners include:
  • University College Dublin
    • University Observer ^[4]
• 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 Health or Suicide Prevention
• Iriseoireacht i nGaeilge (Raidió)
• Iriseoireacht i nGaeilge (Scríofa)
• Journalist 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 University
    • Flux ^[4]
• Newspaper of the Year, previous winners:
  • Trinity College Dublin
    • The University Times ^[5]
    • Trinity News ^[6]
  • University College Dublin
    • The University Observer|University Observer
• News Photographer of the Year
• Photographer of the Year
• Short Animation of the Year
• Short Film of the Year, previous winner Rouzbeh Rashidi
• 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 Story 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 View^[6]
• Travel Writer of the Year
• TV Production of the Year
• Web designer of the Year
• Website of the Year, previous winners include:
  • NUI Galway
    • Sin.ie^[6]

In 2012, a new category was added by the Higher Education Authority - "Best Written, Audio or Visual work in Science or Education" a category that received a great response within the short time that was given to submit

Judges

All but one of the awards are judged by media professionals, who have included:

• Geraldine Kennedy, Editor of The Irish Times ^[4]
• Ruth Scott, 2fm DJ ^[3]
• Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Member of Aosdána
• Jason Sherlock, Winner of GAA GPA All Stars Awards

References

External links

• Oxygen.ie Smedia Awards 2010