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Awards
Entries open for student prize at UK music journalism awards
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 8 October 2010
The Record Of The Day Awards For Music Journalism & PR will return once again next month, and ROTD is again teaming up with CMU’s sister website CreativeStudent.net to present gongs to the best student music journalist and student music photographer as part of their awards event. And with that in mind, students who write about music or take photos of bands are being invited to put themselves forward for these prestigious awards right now.
To enter, student journalists need to write a review of ‘Blue Blood’, the new single from Foals, the latest to be taken from their Mercury nominated album ‘Total Life Forever’. The single is released on 8 Nov and is being promoted to student journalists this week by college press and promotion experts Wild. You can also stream the track on the Foals MySpace page (www.myspace.com/foals) or via the ROTD Awards page on the CreativeStudent.net website (www.creativestudent.net/recordoftheday)
Contenders should send their 150-200 word review of ‘Blue Blood’ plus two other published music reviews or articles they have written along with their name, university and details of the student media they write for to rotd@unlimitedmedia.co.uk. A panel of professional music journalists will review entries and select a winner.
Student photographers simply need to send the three best music photographs they have taken, at least one of which should be a profile shot and at least one should be a gig shot, to rotd@unlimitedmedia.co.uk along with their name, university and details of the student media they photograph for. Each photo should be saved as a JPEG and be no bigger than 1MB. A panel of professional music journalists will review entries and select a winner.
Commenting on the student awards, ROTD’s Paul Scaife told CMU: “After a panel of professional music writers picked last year’s student writer winner, he found himself fast-tracked to success, writing for NME, The Quietus and AOL. If writing about music or photographing music for a living is your goal, the Record Of The Day awards for Music Journalism and PR offer a unique opportunity”.
The closing date for entries is 31 Oct. For more info check: www.creativestudent.net/recordoftheday
