Contact: Bill Dietrich, adviser, The Planet magazine and assistant professor of Environmental Studies, (360) 650-3364 or william.dietrich@wwu.edu.
BELLINGHAM—Western Washington University’s student-produced magazine “The Planet” won two awards in a recent national contest put on by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
The magazine won third place for general excellence among 17 entries and received an honorable mention for design among 15 entries.
In the general excellence category, the judges from “Outside” magazine praised the editors’ story selection.
“This one had some of the best features, and some real editorial intelligence,” the judges wrote. “The writers and editors put together some pieces that could easily run in a major magazine.”
Bob Gray, a design consultant for aarp.org and former design editor at “National Geographic,” praised the magazine’s style in the design category:
“Strong, simple and spare graphic treatments to support stories about how we can all be ‘greener’ nicely reflect the mission of this magazine. Good visual pacing and effective use of white space are also employed. This magazine looks and feels like what it’s about.”
In the general excellence category, first place went to Drake University and second place to the University of Texas at Austin.
More information on the contest, which attracted 232 entries from 23 universities in the United States and Canada, is available at http://aejmcmagazine.asu.edu/students.html. Awards will be presented at the AEJMC convention in Boston on Aug. 7.
“The Planet” is the quarterly magazine of Western’s Huxley College of the Environment. The magazine is online at http://planet.wwu.edu/. For more information, contact magazine adviser Bill Dietrich at (360) 650-3364 or william.dietrich@wwu.edu.
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