The Xmedia Awards 2013 results

The annual Xmedia Awards were held on June 2nd in the Thistle Hotel.

Presenters, Jak Curtis-Rendall and Hannah Barton Image credit: Niklas Rahmel

The evening saw Exeter’s student media gather to celebrate the best across XTV, Exeposé, Exeposé Online and XpressionFM.

Incoming Students’ Guild President, Hannah Barton, and incoming Vice President Participation and Campuses, Jak Curtis-Rendall, were on-hand to host the ceremony.

The award judges included:

Rhodri Jones – Assistant Editor, the i Newspaper

Matthew Sydney – Senior Producer, BBC News

Chris Cook – Lead Director, BBC News

Ted Kravitz – Pit-lane reporter, Sky Sports

Adam Hunt – TV Producer, former XTV station manager

Adam Walmesley – Journalist, former News Editor from Exeposé

 

The winners are listed below:

BEST FEATURE

1st – ‘The Venue Goes Record Shopping’ (James Tyndall, Henry Coulshed and Jamie Grace – XTV).

2nd – ‘Road to an XTV Music Video’ (Rob Seabrook – XTV)

3rd – ‘How much is your virginity worth to you?’ (Dom Madar – Exeposé)

MOST ENTERTAINING

1st – ‘Wake and Bake’ (Laurence Foreman and Gareth Jones – XpressionFM)

2nd – ‘The Big Broadcast for Children in Need’ (George Graham, Gareth Jones and the Big Broadcast Team – XpressionFM)

3rd – ’10 things to do with Exeposé’ (Zoe Bulaitis, Tom Payne, Ben Murphie and Ellie Steafel – Exeposé)

BEST REVIEW/PREVIEW

1st – ‘Django Unchained’ (Owen Keating – Exeposé)

2nd – ‘The Star Wars Holiday Special (Rob Harris – Exeposé)

3rd – ‘Argo’ (Kat Hyland, Sam Osman, Tini Papatheodorou and Chris Davies – XTV)

BEST INTERVIEW

1st – ‘Martin McDonagh from Cameo: London BFI Special’ (Kat Hyland, Sam Osman and Rob Seabrook – XTV)

2nd – Peter Hitchens (James Crouch and Meg Drewett – Exeposé)

3rd – Mr. Scruff (Eleanor Loftie – XpressionFM)

BEST USE OF PRODUCTION, IMAGERY OR DESIGN

1st – Guild Elections Week 2013 (Amelia Jenkinson, Genevieve Ladd, Hazel Morgan and the XpressionFM production team – XpressionFM)

2nd – Aeternus Terrarum titles (Becki Pantling and Jamie MacLeod – XTV)

3rd – Exeposé 25th Anniversary (Zoe Bulaitis and Tom Payne – Exeposé)

THE i NEWSPAPER AWARD FOR BEST NEWS/COVERAGE

1st – Tuesday Night Sport (Joe Alexander, Will Baker, Simon Dewhurst, Ben Kaye, Alex Manning and Ben Warden – XpressionFM)

2nd – Cameo: London BFI Special (Kat Hyland, Sam Osman, Chris Davies, Tini Papatheodorou and Rob Seabrook – XTV)

3rd – The 2013 Rugby Varsity Pullout (Will Kelleher and Mike Stanton – Exeposé)

THE XMEDIA 2013 AWARD FOR BEST INNOVATION

1st – Sketchpad (Becki Pantling – XTV)

2nd – XpressionFM website (Ron Liong – XpressionFM)

3rd – The Xmedia Music Show (Callum McLean, Anthony Prodromou, Ben Winsor, Daisy Meagre and Eleanor Loftie – Exeposé and XpressionFM)

PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AWARD

Ronald Liong (XpressionFM)

THE XMEDIA 2013 SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The NaSTA40 Committee

Congratulations to all winners!