The communications team visited the Mountain Campus this fall. From left in the front row are Stacy Nick, Allison Sylte, Jennifer Dimas, Tiana Kennedy, Kerry Fannon, Kate Jeracki and Mark Gokavi. In the back row are Chris Outcalt, Joe Giordano, Josh Rhoten, Jeff Dodge and Nik Olsen. Not pictured: Jayme DeLoss
The communications team in the Division of University Marketing and Communications recently received a host of accolades from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education as well as the Public Relations Society of America.
In addition to awards for individual articles, the team won honors for podcasts, the CSU Magazine and leveraging CSU faculty’s expertise on trending topics.
The honors from the Colorado chapter of the PRSA (Gold Picks and Silver Picks) were presented in August, and the CASE Best of District VI Awards were announced this month. In addition to Colorado, CASE District VI includes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming.
The CSU Magazine and a SOURCE feature story about CSU’s rich history in atmospheric science and Earth observation written by former CSU science writer Anne Manning each won a Gold Pick in the Colorado PRSA competition. The CSU Magazine also won a CASE Best of District VI Award.
Other honors
There were several other award winners:
• Joe Giordano took home both a PRSA Silver Pick and a CASE Best of District VI Award for a multimedia feature story about a CSU professor who traveled to Mount Everest for the world’s highest climate conference. The story featured a video produced by CSU videographer Ben Ward.
• Stacy Nick won a CASE Best of District VI Award for her podcast series The Audit, specifically episodes interviewing CSU experts on Colorado’s tarantula migration and the history of witchcraft.
• Nick and CSU Magazine Editor Kate Jeracki were awarded a PRSA Silver Pick and CASE Best of District VI honors for the magazine podcast “A Campus Conversation.”
• Nick also won a CASE Best of District VI Award for a SOURCE article about a CSU program that assists partners and landowners with wildfire recovery.
• Jennifer Dimas and Allison Sylte won a PRSA Silver Pick for their adoption of a breaking news approach to leverage the expertise of CSU faculty on trending topics, which has garnered significant national news coverage.
STATE Magazine
In addition to the honors for the communications team, the CSU System’s STATE Magazine won a CASE Best of District VI Award for the entry “Amache: Resurrecting painful history in southern Colorado,” an article written by Executive Editor Coleman Cornelius and designed by Art Director Mary Sweitzer.
STATE also won a Silver in the international 2023 Summit Creative Awards, recognizing superior creative work and effective marketing for the STATE Summer 2022 special issue about CSU Spur and the STATE Winter 2023 edition, as well as a Silver for the STATE Spotlight from January 2023.
STATE Magazine has won 18 regional, national and international awards for writing, design and overall quality since the magazine launched in 2018.
In addition, the College of Health and Human Sciences communications team won two Best of CASE District VI awards, for a multimedia storytelling package “Social Workers are everywhere” including this SOURCE story as well as their annual scholarship video for donors.
