2019 WJEC-5 Creative Competition Winners
WJEC-5 Creative Competition Chair: Michael Bruce, University of Alabama
Audio Competition
Audio Competition Chair: Kim Fox, The American University in Cairo
Faculty Audio News
Best of Competition: Sam Coley, Birmingham City University / Parkside Campus (UK); Dark Coffee
Award of Excellence: Terry Likes, Tennessee State University (USA); Fake News Blues: A Credibility Crisis for Journalism
Student Audio News
Best of Competition: Ahmed Hosam Refai, The American University in Cairo (Egypt); Catfishing in the Nile: Sexploitation and Online Blackmailing in Egypt
Award of Excellence: Engy Moheb, The American University in Cairo (Egypt); The Invincibility Fable
Award of Excellence: Reem Hassan, The American University in Cairo (Egypt); The Story Behind Room P071
Award of Excellence: Yasmeen Nabil Mansour, The American University in Cairo (Egypt); Political Satire in Egypt: Not Just a Joke
Award of Excellence: Lucy Ryan, Birmingham City University / Parkside Campus (UK); The Lonely Death of Janet Parker
News Competition
News Competition Chair: Tony DeMars, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Faculty TV News
Best of Competition: Chandra Clark, The University of Alabama (USA); WMBB Hurricane Michael
Award of Excellence: Kellie Stanfield, University of Missouri (USA); KOMU 8 News, Embattled Police Chief on Leave
Award of Excellence: Alexandra Hlyzova, Ekaterina Kyznetcova, Pavel Peskov & Pavel Shramko, South Ural State University (Russia); Tabula Rasa
Award of Excellence: Dawid Kujawa, Jędrzej Skrzypczak & & & Dominika Narożna, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland); AZS Go!
Student TV News
Best of Competition: Aya Saleh, American University in Cairo (Egypt); Catherine Exists
Award of Excellence: Charlotte Pruett, University of Southern California (USA); The Rundown
Award of Excellence: Zou Weiling, Zhang Meizhi, Xie Sijia & Shen Taiyu, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics (China); Mental Suffering
Award of Excellence: Laila Sherif Said, Nada Mawsouf, Alia Haytham & Ahmed Zada, The American University in Cairo (Egypt); Survival
Award of Excellence: Yahya Abou-Ghazala & Robby Keough, University of Virginia (USA); March For Our Lives Student Walk Out
Award of Excellence: Yahya Abou-Ghazala & Robby Keough, University of Virginia (USA); Tom’s Heart
Award of Excellence: Heba Fouad, The American University in Cairo (Egypt); The Ferry
Award of Excellence: Maram Shalaby, The American University in Cairo (Egypt); Breaking Walls
Documentary Competition
Documentary Competition Chair: Vic Costello, Elon University
Faculty Documentary
Best of Competition (Long Form): Kathy Bruner, Taylor University (USA); Last Year at the Crossing
Best of Competition (Short Form): Sebastián Martínez Valdivia, University of Missouri (USA); Local Monuments
Award of Excellence (Short Form): Chandra Clark, The University of Alabama (USA), Scott Hodgson, Oklahoma University (USA) & Truman Reeves, Oklahoma University (USA); First Informers: Hurricane Irma
Student Documentary
Best of Competition (Short Form): Ahmed Atef Abbas, American University in Cairo; The Blue Hole – Divers’ Paradise Cemetery
Award of Excellence (Short Form): Chiu Mo Fan, Huang Yu Xin, Wu Xin Yue, Yang Hui Han & Zhang Xu, Communication University of China; Heir of the Intangible Heritage《非遗与传承》
Award of Excellence (Short Form): Qiwei Zhang, Zishan Zhang, Yiran Feng & Zhicong Huang, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics (China); Cross the Pearl River
Award of Excellence (Short Form): Mariam Ismail, The American University in Cairo (Egypt); ABORCJI (Abortion in Poland)
Award of Excellence (Short Form): Zou Weiling, Wang Ziqi, Luo Yuanlun & Shen Taiyu, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics (China); The Lost of Only Child
Award of Excellence (Short Form): Nada Mawsouf, The American University in Cairo (Egypt), Conor Castles-Lynch, University of Tasmania (Australia)& Samantha Soh, Monash University (Australia) and Danish School of Media and Journalism (Denmark); We Are Romansh (Nus Essan Rumantschs)
Award of Excellence (Short Form): Maram Shalaby, The American University in Cairo (Egypt); On the Corniche
Award of Excellence (Short Form): JOVRNALISM Staff, University of Southern California (USA); The Deported: Life Beyond the Border
Award of Excellence (Short Form): Dan Thomas & Nic Ulmer, Western Washington University (USA); Vagabond
Photojournalism Competition
Photojournalism Competition Chair: Greg Luft, Colorado State University
Faculty Photojournalism
Best of Competition (Single Still Photograph): Oleg Igoshin, South Ural State University (Russia); Unity
Best of Competition (Photo Essay): Enrique Núñez-Mussa, School of Journalism Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile); Game Changers, The Other Haitian Faces
Award of Excellence (Photo Essay): Peg Achterman, Seattle Pacific University (USA); When the Biology Lab is the Whole Island
Student Photojournalism
Best of Competition (Photo Essay): Thomas Perroteau, Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Lille (France); From the Bike Wheel to the Hips: The Story of “La vie est belt”
Best of Competition (Single Still Photograph): Fotini Maltezou, Panteion University Athens (Greece); Empathy
Award of Excellence (Single Still Photograph): Shuaiyu Zhu, Shandong University (China); A Person Who Paints on Porcelain
Magazine Competition
Magazine Competition co-Chairs: Carol B. Schwalbe, University of Arizona & William Silcock, Arizona State University
Best of Competition: Ulrike Schüller, Lukas Kröninger, Felicitas Köck & Paul Sehm, University of Passau (Germany); Ehrenwort
Award of Excellence: Jennifer Ciotta, DeLaney Flatford, Jacob Turner & Paola Garcia, Appalachian State University (USA); Element Magazine
Award of Excellence: Voices of America Student Team, University of Southern California (USA); Voices of America
Award of Excellence: Kristina Rivera, Western Washington University (USA); Good Looks
