Awards arranged from most recently received to least recently received.
I was inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha, issued by the National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communication in April 2024.
My work on the Above the Fold was a finalist for the 2023 Region 7 Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists in the conversational podcast category.
I won best podcast host in the digital media student category from The Gracies in 2024. The episode I was recognized for was “Above the Fold: All Eyes on Women’s Basketball.”
The Daily Iowan won the 2024 Online Pacemaker from the Associated Collegiate Press. I worked at the assistant digital editor at the time of this award.
I was a finalist for 2023 Student Employee of the Year at The University of Iowa — a campus that has 8,746 student employees. My supervisor, Lois Gray, nominated me for my work on The College of Education’s communications team writing articles and creating engaging social media content. I was particularly involved with navigating the transition when the social media director on our team left.
The news podcast I produce, Above the Fold, took third place at the 2024 Iowa Newspaper Association awards banquet for Best Podcast.
Spring 2023 recipient of the Frank Luther Mott Undergraduate Scholarship and the Florence Ruebush Scholarship.
The Daily Iowan staff won first place in general excellence, community leadership and best newspaper website for our class at the Iowa Newspaper Association 2023.
The Daily Iowan won 11 first place awards at the Iowa Newspaper Association 2022 Better Newspaper Contest, including general excellence and best political coverage in our class. I was politics editor at the time of this award.
Recognized as a 2020 IHSPA Scholar
Spring 2020 IHSPA first place winner in the multimedia new story category for “Iowa caucus preview: how students can get involved this February”
The WSS staff was awarded first place for web design for wsspaper.com by IHSPA for the Spring 2020 contest.
The WSS staff was recognized as an IHSPA Class C 2020 News Team of the Year Finalist.
Spring 2020 IHSPA second place in the personality profile category for “Postoperative”
Spring 2020 IHSPA third place in the multimedia feature story category for “Coming Out Day: ‘It’s too much work to not be who you are.’”
Spring 2020 IHSPA third place in the multimedia news story category for “Iowa caucus recap: student perspectives and result analysis“
Spring 2020 IHSPA third place in the multimedia news story category for “Iowa caucus recap: student perspectives and result analysis“
Spring 2020 IHSPA third place in the news story category for “West High Supply preps for grand re-opening“
2020 Iowa High School Journalist of the Year
Recipient of the Bill Mertens Memorial Daily Iowan Scholarship
Featured on Best of SNO for “Friend crush: Katy Nahra, Ann Rocarek and Christian Aanestad“
Featured on Best of SNO for “Iowa caucus recap: student perspectives and result analysis.“
Featured on Best of SNO for “The man behind the merch.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “Iowa caucus preview: how students can get involved this February.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “The financial factor.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “Postoperative.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “From the page to the stage.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “Friendship: an underappreciated necessity.“
IHSPA second place multimedia feature story for “Resilience.”
Honorable mention for Writer of the Year in 2019 for IHSPA.
A Top Ten Emerging Journalist in 2019 for IHSPA.
Featured on Best of SNO for “Providing a bright spot.”
Quill and Scroll honorable mention in Health, Science and Agriculture for “Unlikely exercise companions.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “Handling life.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “Resilience.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “Pakistan to the USA: the journey to paraeducation.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “From a kid with a toy to a champion with a platform.”
Iowa High School Press Association 2018 Spring Journalism Contest: Second place in podcasting for “West Side Radio: Spilling the Tea”, third place in multimedia story-news for “24 Units to change 24 lives” and third place for multimedia story-feature for “Prioritizing your passion”. The entire staff also received second in the place in the state for web design and social media.
Honorable mention in Quill and Scroll 2018 in Profiling Writing category for “Prioritizing your passion.”
Featured on Best of SNO for “Cultural proficiency team takes new approach to MLK day celebrations.”
Journalism Portfolio of Natalie Dunlap 