UNC students top CPOY multimedia categories

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media students accounted for 13 awards in the 66th College Photographer of the Year competition, winning gold in each multimedia category. The school’s Powering a Nation project won gold in the Large Group Multimedia Project category for the third consecutive year with “Coal: A Love Story.”

“American Dream X” won silver in the Large Group Multimedia Project category. “Born into Coal,” a multimedia piece produced as part of “Coal: A Love Story,” won gold in the Multimedia Project category.

Students nearly swept the Individual Multimedia Story or Essay category, winning gold, silver, bronze and two of three awards of excellence. December 2010 graduate Arkasha Stevenson won gold in the category for “Safekeeping,” a story produced for the 2010 Mountain Workshops in Elizabethtown, Ky.

Entries were judged Nov. 6 through Nov. 13, at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo.

For a complete list of winners and to view winning images and projects, visit www.cpoy.org.

Winners from the school:

Johanna Contreras
Award of Excellence
Multimedia Project

Josh Davis
Silver
Individual Multimedia Story or Essay

Caitlyn Greene
Award of Excellence
Individual Multimedia Story or Essay

Catherine Orr
Award of Excellence
Individual Multimedia Story or Essay

Elena Rue
Silver
Multimedia Project

Arkasha Stevenson
Gold
Individual Multimedia Story or Essay

Bronze
Domestic Picture Story

Margaret Cheatham Williams
Bronze
Individual Multimedia Story or Essay

Award of Excellence
General News

Rebecca Yan
Award of Excellence
Illustration

Catherine Orr, Catherine Spangler, Hadley Gustafson and Sarah Riazati
Gold
Multimedia Project

Powering a Nation
Gold
Large Group Multimedia Project

American Dream X
Silver
Large Group Multimedia Project