Three MDC Literary Magazines Selected As Pinnacle Award Finalists
Miami Dade College student publications—AXIS, Miambiance and Urbana—have been selected as finalists for the College Media Association’s Pinnacle Award in the Two-Year Literary Magazine of the Year category.
The contest recognizes excellence in student work produced during the 2021-22 academic school year that was created for magazines, newspapers, websites, yearbooks and radio or television stations.
Winners will be announced during Mediafest22: The Fall National College Media Convention at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C. on Oct. 27 at 5:30 p.m.
“The students really made an effort to be the voice of the campus,” said Emily Sendin, who served as the advisor to Urbana—the literary arts hybrid magazine at Eduardo J. Padrón Campus—when the entries were made. “[We] are really proud to represent our community at the national level.”
Urbana, launched in 2007, won a Pinnacle Award last year in the Two-Year Literary Magazine of the Year category and individual Pinnacles for Best Social Media Presence, Best Social Media Strategy and second place for Best Magazine Cover.
This year, they are finalists for individual Pinnacles in the Best Social Media Strategy and Best Social Media Presence categories.
Miambiance, founded in 1989, is the literary arts magazine at Kendall Campus. They have been an organizational Pinnacle finalist four years in a row and they won the honor recently in 2019 and 2020.
“It’s a great achievement,” said Diego Franco, the lead designer for Miambiance. “Hard work pays off.”
The magazine is also a finalist in the Best Photo Illustration category this year.
AXIS is the literary arts magazine at North Campus. It was created in 2002 and was a Pinnacle finalist in 2018, 2019 and 2020, winning the honor for the 2017-18 school year.
In addition, Ammy Sanchez, who served as The Reporter’s editor-in-chief last year, was selected as a Pinnacle Award finalist in the Best Profile category.
The 19-year-old was selected based on a story she wrote about an 11-year-old boy, Noah Thomas, who is taking dual enrollment classes at Miami Dade College.
Sanchez, who is now a junior at Florida International University studying organizational communications, is the only finalist from a two-year school in the category. The other finalists are students from Augustana University, Baylor University and Emporia State University.
“Being able to write stories about people like Noah who have such bright futures inspired me throughout my time at The Reporter,” Sanchez said. “So to be recognized for doing something that I enjoyed so much, is surreal.”
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