Riverbend Review Wins Gold Crown Award

Riverbend Review, Benjamin Franklin’s award winning literary magazine, was honored by Columbia University Scholastic Press Association with a Gold Crown Award. The Gold Crown Award is the highest recognition given by the CSPA to a student print or online medium for overall excellence.

"The Gold Crown for Riverbend Review is in recognition of outstanding achievement in the writing, editing, design and production of a superlative student publication through the cooperative efforts of students, faculty advisor and administrators which epitomizes the high ideals from which this association has drawn its strength and inspiration." Edmund J. Sullian, executive director CSPA.

A panel of Crown Judges assembles each year at Columbia University to view the thousands of entrants, whether they are newspaper, magazines, yearbooks or online media. Judges are experienced former advisers to student media, professional journalists who understand student media or professionals such as photographers or online specialists with particular expertise needed for the judging exercise. Judges are selected by the CSPA Director, in close consultation with the chair of the CSPA's Committee on Honors and Prizes, who chairs the Crown Judges panel and supervises its work.

No set number of Crown Awards is required; the awards are discretionary, based on the evaluation by the Crown Judges. This year there were eight magazines honored with the Gold Crown. They consider all aspects of value to the reader or veiwer: content, design or presentation, coverage, photography as well as writing and editing.
Congratulations to Jean Gill, the Riverbend Review staff and editors.

Revised 4/1/09