The National Student Media Awards or Smedias [1] are an annual All-Ireland student journalism competition run by the Oxygen.ie website. [2] [3] The awards have been labelled "Ireland's premier student awards". [4] [5]
Since 2000, Oxygen.ie, a website aimed at third-level students, has run a student journalism competition. [6]
As of the 2020 awards [update] , submissions are invited in a number of categories. [7] [8] These included Editor of the Year (previously won by UCD's University Observer ), [9] Magazine of the Year (previously won by DCU's Flux ), [9] Newspaper of the Year (including previous winners The University Times , [10] Trinity News , [11] and University Observer), Sports Writer of the Year (previously won by The College View ), [11] and Website of the Year (previously won by Sin.ie). [11] [6]
Judges have included: