The Daily Pennsylvanian won 10 2024 Student Keystone Media Awards.
Competing against the top college newspapers in Pennsylvania in the Division I category, the DP won four first-place awards, four second-place awards, and two honorable mention awards. The DP won awards for news, sports, opinion, multimedia, podcast, and design submissions.
Several of the awards recognize the DP’s coverage of former Penn President Liz Magill’s unprecedented resignation, including first place for ongoing news coverage.
General News – Second Place
Penn President Liz Magill resigns amid backlash over antisemitism controversies
Article by Jared Mitovich, Molly Cohen, Imran Siddiqui, and Saya Desai
Ongoing News Coverage – First Place
Coverage of Liz Magill's resignation and the University of Pennsylvania's leadership crisis
Top stories include:
Magill's free speech fight at Penn
Magill grilled in congressional hearing, attempts to defend Penn response to antisemitism
Live updates: All the events leading up to Penn President Liz Magill's resignation
Articles by Katie Bartlett, Ben Binday, Ethan Young, Jonah Miller, Diamy Wang, Emily Scolnick, Molly Cohen, Jared Mitovich, Ella Sohn, Saya Desai, and Imran Siddiqui
Sports Story – Honorable Mention
Scheduling Goliath: How Penn men's basketball got Kentucky on the calendar
Article by Walker Carnathan
Editorial – Second Place
Understanding the DP's coverage of campus, donor reactions amid violence in Gaza and Israel
Addressing the status of free speech at Penn
The nation's eyes are on us. Let's make our voices heard.
Editorials by The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board
Column – First Place
How to fire an Ivy League president
Statistically, you will not read this article
Columns by Spencer Gibbs
Feature Photo – First Place
Photo by Chenyao Liu
Photo Story – First Place
In Photos: A look into the Freedom School for Palestine sit-in and Penn's response
Photo essay by Ethan Young and Anna Vazhaeparambil
Website – Second Place
The Daily Pennsylvanian Staff
Layout and Design – Second Place
Design by Lillian Liu and Sophia Liu
Podcast – Honorable Mention: Quaker Nation
Quaker Nation S3E3: Penn baseball's Ryan Dromboski joins the show
Quaker Nation S3E6: Penn football's Jared Richardson joins the show
Quaker Nation S3E9: Penn men's basketball's Tyler Perkins joins the show
Recorded and edited by Sean McKeown, Walker Carnathan, and Riane Lumer
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