The college media awards season is upon us, oh yes. The NUS Student Journalism Awards take place on 13 Nov, with the Student Radio Awards on 19 Nov. But things kicked off yesterday with the Guardian's Student Media Awards in London. It was rather a good night for York University, with their paper York Vision taking the student newspaper of the year award, and with one of their reporters - Jon Bentham - getting the student journalist of the year title.
Judges said of the York paper - which was also a runner up in the small budget publication category: "York Vision is a truly professional newspaper that we would gladly pay money for. It has a particularly impressive design."
Another York University winner - though this time from the college's other title Nouse - won student diversity writer of the year.
Other winners on the night included Ruaridh Arrow of the Glasgow University Guardian who won the Sky News reporter of the year award; Thomas Whipple from the Cambridge Student who took student feature writer of the year for the second year in a row; Esther Teichmann from the Royal College of Art in London, who won student photographer of the year; and Oxford University's Isis which took the award for student magazine of the year;
A full list of winners will be published in next week's Media Guardian.