The University of Nebraska-Lincoln took first and third place in the 2017 Association of Food Journalists national awards competition.
Joe McCarty won the best writing on food competition in the student category with his story, “The Business of Food.” McCarty is a December 2016 graduate of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. He is a copy editor at the Omaha World-Herald.
Emily Case, a CoJMC graduate student, received third place for her story, “Food as a Cultural Oasis.”
Winners were announced last week at the AFJ’s annual conference in Philadelphia. Both stories were part of “Spice of Life: New Americans and Food,” a project published in 2016 as part of Nebraska Mosaic, a capstone journalism class that produces stories about refugees and immigrants in Nebraska.