UA Student Media Alumni

10/05/2020

On September 30, The 1956 Magazine released its first official issue. The 1956 magazine is the first black led magazine on the University of Alabama campus. We are excited for their launch! To check out the first issue, here is the link : .

This is the very first issue of Nineteen Fifty-Six magazine. The theme, Inspiring Firsts, can be seen throughout the magazine as we showcased Black students at the University whose firsts paved the way for future Black students.

06/09/2015

Dr. Stuart R. Bell, executive vice president and provost at LSU, will be recommended as the next president of The University of Alabama, a UA system spokesperson announced Tuesday. The system Board of Trustees will meet June 18 to consider Bell's selection to succeed Dr. Judy Bonner. Bell is a former mechanical engineering professor at UA.

Former Alabama professor and current Louisiana State University executive vice president and provost Stuart R.

06/04/2015

New posters of Page One pages from The Crimson White went up in the newsroom Wednesday. That's CW Editor-in-Chief Sean Landry at work at his desk.

04/01/2015

Congratulations to our students at The Crimson White for winning nine honors—including four First Place awards—in the Society of Professional Journalists' 2014 Region 3 Mark of Excellence Awards. The awards were formally announced this week. Region 3 includes college media outlets in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. The first place winners go on to the national competition.

The Crimson White was named—for the fourth year in a row—the Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper in the region, and also won first place in Best Editorial Writing (CW Editorial Board), Best Sports Photography (Pete Pajor for "On the Road Again"), and Best Feature Writing (Francie Johnson and Hannah Widener for "The person I was born to be"). The newspaper's staffers were also finalists (among the top 3 of all entries) in these categories: Online news reporting (Andy McWhorter), Photo Illustration (Pete Pajor and Sloane Arogeti), Sports Writing (Mary-Catherine Hodges and Reed O'Mara), Best Use of Mulitmedia (Holly Jackson), and Editorial Cartooning (Kevin Pabst).

The Crimson White competes in the large university (10,000 or more students) category in the SPJ contest.

Here is a complete list of winners:
http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1325

The Society of Professional Journalists is the nation's most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior.

11/19/2014

Come join us and meet this generation's UA student reporters, designers, ad reps and broadcasters. Come see our new-ish digs if you haven't made it over already along with the new WVUA 90.7 FM studios.

06/20/2014

Congrats to The Crimson White's Abbey Crain and Matt Ford for their selection by BusinessInsider.com as two of a dozen "incredibly impressive" graduating students nationally this year.
http://read.bi/1iRYmri

Some very impressive people.

02/25/2014

Congrats to The Crimson White for bringing home 16 awards from the Southeastern Journalism Conference's annual convention in Lafayette, La. last weekend. Most notably, Abbey Crain was honored with the SEJC's College Journalist of the Year award, primarily for her outstanding work on "The Final Barrier" story last fall. The award includes a $1,000 cash prize. The CW also won the SEJC's Public Service Journalism award for the "The Final Barrier." For more details, visit our alumni website at osmalumni.ua.edu.

11/27/2013

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! While you're enjoying your turkey and all the trimmings, be sure and read some Iron Bowl history from The Crimson White:
http://bit.ly/1c8SRDT

When The University of Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn University Tigers met at Legion Field in Birmingham on Dec. 4, 1948, they hadn’t played football together in 41 years. Their last game, played in 1907, ended in a 6-6 tie, but disagreements over finance and officiating ended the series...