The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) just named one of our brand-new grantees, North by Northwestern at NU, the Best Student Magazine in its region (Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky). SPJ was so wowed that they decided not to award a second or third place finisher.

That’s not all: North by Northwestern also took 2nd place in the Independent Online Student Publication category; 1st place in the Non-Fiction Magazine Article category for this story on so-called “expiration dating”; 2nd place in the same category for a story on suburban slumlords; 1st place in the Online Feature Reporting category for an interactive graphic on university presidents’ inauguration speeches; 1st place in the Online Opinion & Commentary category for columns by Sourav Bhowmick; and 3rd place in the Editorial Cartooning category for cartoons by Matthew Leib.

Talk about cleaning up! In the next round of SPJ’s competition, the stakes get higher: North by Northwestern will compete for national prizes against winners from other regions.

Major congratulations to the magazine’s editors and staff for their great work.

(Cross-posted at CampusProgress.org)