Drake student work was honored with 10 Pinnacle awards, including six first-place honors, at the recent College Media Association contest in Atlanta.

Two of the top three student magazines in the country were produced by Drake students: Drake Magazine won first place for magazine of the year, and The Annual won third place. Drake students also won the top two awards for general news story and first-place awards for podcast, photo portrait, and profile story. Drake Magazine and The Annual are extracurricular activities published by the University’s Board of Student Communications; Urban Plains is a multimedia website produced by the SJMC news, magazine, and electronic media majors as their senior capstone.

The awards:

• Best four-year magazine, first place—Drake Magazine
• Best four-year magazine, third place—The Annual
• Best magazine cover, first place—Drake Magazine
• Best podcast, first place—Urban Plains
• Best photo portrait, first place—Drake Magazine
• Best profile, first place—Urban Plains
• Best general news story, first place—Drake Magazine
• Best general news story, second place—Urban Plains
• Best, multimedia news story, second place—Urban Plains
• Best online main page, third place—Urban Plains

—Kathleen Richardson, Dean, SJMC