Drake students won nine awards, including best website and magazine, in this year’s Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication magazine contest. The awards were:

• Best website: The senior capstone multimedia project, Urban Plains
• General excellence: Drake Magazine
• First place for editorial content: Drake Magazine
• Second place for design: Drake Magazine
• First and second place for new magazine prototypes
• Two second-place awards and a third-place honor for writing

The judge of the general excellence category, a Vanity Fair editor, said of Drake Magazine: “This entry is exceptional for many reasons—its design, its photography, its story selection and presentation. It is a well-edited magazine in every sense of the word … Every element feels considered and deliberate … This magazine hits on all cylinders.”

The awards will be presented at the AEJMC conference on Aug. 11

—Kathleen Richardson, Dean, School of Journalism & Mass Communication