UC Berkeley student earns top honors at ONA

Saturday night, Brittany Schell (’13) won in the student category of the Online Journalism Awards for her master’s project “Pulse of Oakland,” a multimedia package on health disparities in Oakland.

Brittany was a Kaiser Permanente Health Policy Journalism fellow. This fellowship provided financial assistance that allowed her to pursue this project. Brittany graduated in May and is currently working as a multimedia editor for Agence France-Press in Washington, D.C.

This is the second year in a row UC Berkeley J-School has dominated in the student category. It’s taken top honors in the last four out of five years: 2013, 2012, 2010 and 2009.

We also had another team project nominated this year in a different category. That project, called “Gimme Props,” is a video game demystifying California’s Byzantine ballot propositions during the 2012 elections.

ONA also included a very nice in memoriam for Jessica Lum, who won last year and passed away from cancer in January.