DIG Magazine earned the “Best Print Cover” award in the student-publication category at the Western Publishing Association’s annual Maggie journalism banquet on April 28 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, adjacent to the Los Angeles International Airport.
The magazine was also a finalist for the “Best Web Publication” and “Best Print Publication” awards.
“Attending the Maggies was a great experience, but to actually win a Maggie award was incredible,” said Stephanie Perez, the magazine’s online editor who attended the event. “We were up against some of the best student publications, and to know [that] DIG is making its way up there is amazing.”
The award is attributed to the April 2016 issue of DIG Magazine, designed by the publication’s former creative director – Cal State Long Beach alumna Taya Sebring. The honor also included a $250 check for Sebring, who was not in attendance.
Denny Cristales, DIG’s editor-in-chief, accepted the award on the publication’s behalf.
Other school-publication finalists in that category included the Collegian Times, El Sol, Focus, Mayborn and Shift.
They should reach out to Fatima Abdelhafeez, the student who is gracing the cover of that issue of DIG!