 and welcome to the 2020 DCU hybrid student media awards. We are here, we are finally here. The night that so many of you have been building up towards the whole year has finally arrived. Little bit later than planned in a little bit of a different fashion than usually takes place, but nevertheless tonight it is the hybrids and it has arrived. I'm so excited. Thank you so much for having me. I'm your host, my name is Jazz Keane. I'm one half of the zoo crew on Spin1038 and I'm also an esteemed, you say esteemed about yourself. I'm a very proud DCU alumni. I studied communications, I graduated in 2017 and I was also a deputy station manager of DCU FM in my final year, but I was a DCU FM head all through and I'm still a very proud DCU guy. I must mention it on the radio at least once a week. And I'm absolutely thrilled to be your host tonight. I was a George at last year's hybrids and I was absolutely buzzed about it, so I'm honored to be the host tonight. I'll be the virtual host. I've never done a virtual hosting gig before. It's fun. I mean, we are coming to you live tonight from my spare room. It's a spare room. It's just nothing. There's nothing here, you know? But that's the beauty of it. I mean, I was originally gonna do this from my bedroom, but I asked my mom, could I host a load of rowdy college kids from my bedroom and she said, absolutely not. No way it's not happening. So my spare room will have to do. I hope you enjoy it. We are coming live from my spare room to your room, your house, wherever you are this evening. I hope you are excited for a fantastic night of celebration of content from the year that has been. I remember when I was in DCU, like the hybrids was the pinnacle of the year. It was all the night that everyone was building up towards. You put in so much work for it. It's a celebration of the year that has been and it's also like a little bit of a moment to remind yourself of everything that has been over the year because the content that you produce has been based around and is from the year that has been. So you're also getting reminded of the huge things that have happened in the year. So it's a celebration of many, many things tonight and I'm so excited to be here for you. As you know, it's been a crazy year. I'm not gonna harp on about coronavirus and lockdown and stuff, but this is why it's so different tonight. Hence why it's a virtual event. Hence why it's later in the year. Lots of things go into it, but nevertheless, we must celebrate. But one thing that I've said to so many people and that I have thought about the year that has been, although there is so many negative aspects for it and it is, it's a worldwide pandemic for a reason. You always have to look at the bright side of things and try and take positivity from where you can. And one of the things that I've been thinking about the whole thing is the more time you've had to yourself and downtime and not in work, not in college, being in lockdown for creatives, which you all are, we all are, it has been a moment to be creative in many different ways. Like if you put time and effort into starting a podcast, taking more pictures, editing more videos, you probably have had the time that you wouldn't have had ever. So that's one of the things that I have kept in my head throughout this whole time. You have to take the positives where you can and I think it has been a fun time for creatives. Maybe you don't see it that way. Maybe by me saying this, you might think about it differently, but creativity knows no bends and this is another opportunity for creativity to strive. One of the things that I did when in lockdown had a little bit of more time, obviously, was learn some tunes on the tin whistle. Now, not very good. I'm a DJ by nature, like I never really play instruments, but I decided to have a crack at a few things and haven't played in a few weeks. I was doing this at the start of lockdown but I thought for you tonight, I will crack out the tin whistle and play one of the things that I have learned. I apologize if this is bad. I'm not doing another take. Hang on, I have to do this. Thank you, thank you very much. That was, of course, traditional Irish 50 cent candy shop on the tin whistle. That was just one of the things I learned when in lockdown. I decided to put my time into something different and that's what came of it. I also learned another tune that I might play for you at the end as a celebration, more of an upbeat celebration song but I'll play for you at the end. And, of course, tonight's event, the hybrids is all in it of a fantastic charity in the INAOR and that is the Irish Network Against Racism. It's a fantastic charity. They're the voice of anti-racism in Ireland and some of the things they do and what they are is a national network of over 100 anti-racism civil organisations. They aim to work together to address and highlight racism in Ireland through promotion and monitoring Irish, EU and global trends and anti-racist initiatives. I have a little spiel here I'm running off but obviously with everything that's going on in the world, the INAOR is a fantastic charity and they do loads of work, loads of brilliant campaigns. I was on their website, just having a look at some of the things they do, wonderful campaigns, initiatives and work and, of course, if you'd like to get more info and donate their website is inaor.ie. You can have a look at everything they do. There's a big donate button and I definitely urge you to have a look at it and have a look at some of the work they're doing and, of course, donate if you can because your money will go towards helping a fantastic cause. INAOR.ie is the website. And, okay, almost time to get into it. So much coming up in tonight's event, lots of lovely awards, so much great content that we have to celebrate tonight. Some of the awards coming up tonight, journalists of the year, photographer of the year, entertainment show of the year, documentary, promo video of the year, so many more, so many wonderful judges who have been listening to and thinking about your content that we all get to celebrate tonight. Some of the lucky few will be winning awards but regardless of if you win, whatever. Tonight is about celebrating everything that has happened over the last year and all the amazing effort, work, time, blood, sweat, tears that you've put into your entries, that you've put into creating this fantastic content over the year. Let's get into it. This is the 2020 DCU Hybrid Student Media Awards. Here we go. Here we go. Award number one is for a news piece of the year and to George's Connor Fian. Connor Fian is a Dublin-based journalist, an esteemed journalist, with more than 20 years of work to show for himself. He has worked in The Herald, The Irish Independent and also as a winner of News Reporter of the Year, which makes him extremely qualified to judge tonight's hybrid. Judging news piece of the year, Connor Fian. Hello, my name is Connor Fian. I work with The Irish Independent, The Herald and independent.ie and I've been asked to judge the TV news piece of the year. In second place, I chose Dara Brown. When you look at the Clear the Head campaign story, I thought it was a good story put together during pandemic times when there's obvious restrictions on how a person can move around and record. The lockdown restrictions meant that camera people couldn't go to people's houses, that people couldn't gather to do the interviews, but I thought it was clever the way it was put together because it was using social media posts and interviewees' own home-done videos which were edited together nicely. I thought the story moved along quite well and it kept the interest, but also it captured the fun of the event of cutting your own hair, shaving your head for charity, but also that married well with the seriousness of the topic that was being discussed and there were some personal stories in there too which I thought always does add to a good production if you can learn something about the individuals taking part in their own backgrounds and their own families. I think personal stories tell a story better than just somebody who's not personally involved in a particular topic. So then to choose the winner of the category was interesting, but to me, I chose Louis Flanagan. When I was looking at the Love Always Charlie production, I thought that it moved along at a very nice pace. There was a very good mix of interviews and cutaways. In fact, the standard of the cutaways in the piece was incredible. I thought that the way it moved, like the cutaways panned and moved and focused in, focused out, I thought it kind of kept the viewer very engaged in the piece and there was a good mix then, a good ratio of cutaways to interviewees. The cutaways as well, they also matched the narrative as well. There was one point when the interviewees were talking about friendships and the cutaways matched that precisely so there was a lot of thought put into that. As well as that, I thought, again, that David Carter's own personal input, his honesty was refreshing. He talked about music in his own life growing up and how he felt and how that related to the story being told. So overall, I thought Louis Flanagan's work was superior. Thank you. All right, our next award is Radio Documentary of the Year and to George is Pat O'Mahony. Pat is a Dublin-based radio and TV producer, presenter and director. He has produced an Emmy award-winning series called Producers at War. He's also been producing for Ortig Radio One and 2FM since 2010, producing shows like the Marty Marysy Show and for Ryan Tiberty as well. We feel, of course, that Pat's biggest achievement to date is being a former DCU student where he sat as chair of NPS, Pat graduated from DCU in 1986, judging Radio Documentary of the Year, Pat O'Mahony. Hi, guys. Thank you for asking me to judge one of the categories of the hybrids. It's been a few years. And I think the last time I may have done the Radio Documentary section as well. So when I was asked this year to judge it, I said, sure, how many entries do you think you might get? What duration? And they said maybe eight entries. There might be about maybe 10 minutes each. The winner this year is the winner by default because there was only one entry. In these very weird coronavirus times, I know it took extra effort to enter. And so maybe that explains why there was only one entry. Which goes to show sometimes in this business, the old, if you don't ask, you don't get cliche, still holds, simply by entering. This entry won. There you go. What I liked about the documentary was that it was a very simple idea, simply executed. Now, a simple idea sometimes is all you need. In fact, usually the simpler, the better. This one, you felt had some sort of personal connection to the producer. Even if, because of their gender, this may be a tenuous one, but it was something that given some thought. So that was obvious. This isn't always necessary, of course. Sometimes a good idea is just a good idea, whatever your personal involvement is. And ideas, as I've said a million times, are the lifeblood of all media. If you have a good idea, you're halfway there. Well, maybe not halfway, but you're on the road. This wasn't a perfect radio documentary by any means. Very few creative products actually are. People will always find fault, no matter how much work you've put into it, no matter how much you've sweated over it. But if the producer wants to give me a shout any time, I'm more than happy to go through it with them to let them know what I thought worked and what I thought didn't work and how it could be improved. It would be purely my personal take on it and always with advice, you take some of it, you ignore other bits of it. So happy to do that, but they did win. So we do have a winner in the radio documentary of the year category, and I'm delighted to say the winner is Boys Will Be Boys by Roshin McArdle. Well done, Roshin. Our next award is for Photographer of the Year and judging this is Dragana. The captivating Dragana's photography journey began in September 1991 when her family apartment burned down. Since then, she's been exploring the power that photography holds over our memory through her work. She now lives in Dublin. She is an assistant professor here in DCU where she enthralls students with the wonderful and powerful world of photography. Judging Photographer of the Year is Dragana. So the category for Photographer of the Year is I really immensely enjoyed looking at the work and to see also what great talent we have in DCU at the moment. And without any further ado, I would like to award Satisha Mohan as Photographer of the Year 2020 for her brilliant portfolio of images depicting mixed martial arts fighters fighting in arena. You can really feel the sweat and blood and pain and the exhaustion of these fighters. I would say you potentially very likely have a career as a sports photographer. A profession where sadly we don't see many women. But you also have a really great sensibility in photographing people and catching their emotions. And this could carry you across to the fine art photography as well. So sky is the limit. Well done. And the runner up in this category is Roshi McArdle who submitted three images that were not automatically connected but they were all done to a really high standard and brilliantly executed. So well done Roshi. I hope you're all well and that you're enjoying your summer. Thank you. Bye. Now we move on to Photograph of the Year and judging this category again is Dragana. Not only has she had a huge career, she has won awards such as the INNA 1000 Residency Award and also the Golden Fleece Special Recognition Award. Judging Photograph of the Year once again is Dragana. I just want to say that we really enjoyed judging the category of photograph of the year and the team this year was Resistance which I thought is a relevant team for the times we are living through. The winner for the category of Photograph of the Year this year, 2020 is Conor O'Neill for his image of DCU drama society, pantomime in which we see a girl trying to fight off a horde of zombies all by herself. The image has a great mood to it. It's also done in a very challenging light situation which is kind of low lighting but you still manage to capture the photograph to a quite high standard. So really well done Conor. And the runner up in this category is Jim Z. Johnson for the image of a daisy in the field. Well, it's a one flower that is managed to stay upright in a field of kind of destroyed flower either by footfall or by weather and I found this image quite symbolic. So this is why I gave it a prize of a runner up for the category of a photograph of the year. So well done Jim. Thank you. Our next award is for News and Current Affairs Journalist of the Year and judging this category is Amy Malloy. The multi-talented Amy Malloy is currently sitting as Public Affairs correspondent with Independent News and Media. The Western woman has carried out award-winning journalism and investigations into the housing crisis in Ireland and in 2018 she was awarded Upcoming Business Journalist of the Year and Young Journalist of the Year. Maybe categories for next year's hybrids. Judging News and Current Affairs Journalist of the Year is Amy Malloy. I'm a lawyer from the Irish Independent here. Just wanna say a huge thanks for asking me to be a judge for this year's hybrid awards. Obviously, it's very important that the event can't happen in person. Hence why I'm doing this video in my dodgy home-made office. What needs most and all that. I've just spent the last couple of days reading to the various entries for the News and Current Affairs category and I was incredibly impressed by the standard of writing and the topics chosen. There was a lot of originality there in particular and coming to an overall decision was quite tough but for me, there was one standout person. The reason I came to my overall decision was I was just looking at the standard of Irish journalism in general over the last couple of years and there has been quite a lot of standard stories which have led to real change. The FAI and John Delaney story by the Sunday Times eventually led to his resignation. The Irish Independent had that story about Maria Bailey and her questionable compensation claim which eventually led to her fall from Grace the TD and I think if you ask any student journalists why they actually got into journalism, a lot of people that I found in my own class anyway would have said it was the potential to make a difference as corny as it sounds and that's why I came to the decision of Gordon O'Neill-Boyle as News and Current Affairs journalist of the year. I think in particular O'Neill's piece on the rent increases probably paid a huge factor in DCU deciding to overturn that decision to hike the rents by 4%. It's a story which was followed up by a lot of national organizations including my own and I think it displayed good journalism because that story arose from asking DCU, COO, UCD or hike on their rents is the same thing going to happen here. So that's a good quality in a journalist, just being curious and seeing how is this going to impact my own college. And so I thought that was excellent and obviously it's great that the rents aren't going to be hiked now and then her interview with the DCU student facing deportation I thought was also quite powerful and you know hopefully kind of helped make somewhat of a difference. You know I think personal interviews always always kind of resonate with people so I thought it was a very well written piece. So congrats on you and well done. And then as a very close runner up I have gone with Dylan O'Neill. I thought Dylan's pieces were very well written and kind of showed a lot of originality in particular the burning, fast burning out piece as a young journalist, that's something which resonated with myself. I just thought you showed kind of good, good ground work there by going out and getting your own case studies and then obviously your piece on being lesbian, guardian, bisexual trans in Ireland I thought was excellent also and featured a lot of different voices and people from different backgrounds and I just thought it was very well written and well put together. And obviously it's a very topical subject at the moment. So yeah, congrats to you both, well done. Hopefully you guys can have a little and glass of wine home to celebrate. And I've no doubt that I'll be seeing your boy lines at some national publications in the future. So congrats again. All right, moving on to our next award. This award is for blog of the year and judging is Florence Olafemi Ojo. Florence is a 26 year old Nigerian-born Irish blogger on her blog Maldivinsideout.com She shares her life, travel, beauty and she also operates MIO prints which sell bonnets, hair wraps, fans, pajamas and aprons in African prints, Ankara and Kendi. Judging blog of the year is Florence Olafemi Ojo. Hi guys, how are you all doing? My name is Florence. I am a blogger at Maldivinsideout. I want to say a huge thank you to the DCM Media Society, DMPF. I hope I'm saying that right. Also the DCM Media Production Society apologies. Thank you so much for having me on as a guest, as a, so a judge on the panel for the iBroad event coming up on the 24th of July. I'm also here to disannounce Niall Riley as the winner of the blog for the year. It was so nice reading your blog post Niall. You had your language with so, I like how you use your language to capture my thoughts and my opinion as a reader. You were able to also just bring me into your world and if like two minutes of reading your, you know your post, I really could resonate with a lot of feelings you have. And just like college in general, like I think very true, you know, the relationships we make in college are the things that keep us going through the challenging times, through assignments, through CAs and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, it was definitely resonate. So well done on being able to capture my mind and well done on being able to, I suppose, bring me back down memory lane and yeah, I'm super excited for you. Our next award is for DJ of the year. The person who is judging DJ of the year is currently one half of the zoo crew on Spin1038 and SpinSouth West. He also presented Spin Extra on Spin1038 before moving on to the zoo crew. He started his career radio in DCU FM where he was always involved in DCU FM and served as deputy station manager in his final year. He is also very charming, funny, attractive, quick-witted, intelligent, courageous and bold, and intelligent and funny and good looking and more importantly, an Egypt and a Chancellor. Judging DJ of the year is me. Hello, I hope you are all having a wonderful evening at tonight's hybrids. I can't get over the host. He's doing such a fantastic job. You guys are so lucky. Wow. And my name is Giles Keane and I'm judging radio DJ of the year, this year's hybrids. It's so lovely being here as a judge and as the host. But I thought I'd change things up. Welcome to the Spin Studio. And also I brought some memorabilia. I brought my hybrid from when I won it in 2017 for Arts and Features show of the year. So I just felt with this here, I'll be able to give a good award for radio DJ of the year. Really good entries this year for radio DJ of the year. Really enjoyed listening to them all. Each of them had different things that were all really, really good. So all entries, well done to all of you. They're really enjoyable to listen to. Some really good bits in them all. And when it came to picking my favorite or the best, I really thought that the winner, the one I've picked for radio DJ of the year, for me, it had everything that a radio DJ should have. There was music passion in there. Coming off and going into songs was slick. Back and dancing was good and the right length going into songs, kind of rolled over intros and stuff, which it's just, it's very radio jock and it just sounds how it should be. There was, yeah, good flow going into songs. There was like relevant topical info about stuff that's going on. Like TikTok was mentioned in this entry. And it was just like stuff that you'd hear and expect to hear on a station. All stuff that really suits it. There was a caller in the entry requesting song. There was good back and forth between host and caller, which I thought was really natural, really good sounding. And also there was hooks and teases. So like a little bit of info of what's coming in five minutes that wanted me to stay listening to find out what it was, which is pretty much the number one thing that radio PDs look for in radio DJs and music presenters especially. They want you to keep the listener listening for longer. There was one of these in the entry and I was like, oh, what is that? I'll keep listening. So that was a huge box ticker for me. So really happy with all the entries. Well done to all of you. My runner up for radio DJ of the year is Rory Egan. And I'm absolutely delighted to present the award for radio DJ of the year for this year's hybrids to Connor Farley. Well done, well done. Jesus. Well that last judge didn't try and steal the show at all. Who gave him time to speak. Right, moving on to our next award. This award is for sports journalist of the year and judging this award is Cahill Dennehy. Cahill is a freelance sports journalist whose work has appeared in the Irish independent, the Irish examiner, runner's world, world of athletics and the guardian. Cahill's also been accredited by many awards such as Irish sports journalist of the year 2019. And to top things off, Cahill is also a DCU journalism alumni judging sports journalist of the year, Cahill Dennehy. Hi everyone, my name is Cahill Dennehy. I'm a sports journalist and I write mainly for the Irish independent and Irish examiner newspapers. Also a graduate of DCU journalism school. Many moons are going out to stage. And I was allowed to be asked to judge this year's sports journalist of the year category for the hybrid awards. And this year's winner is a young journalist who has played exceptional credentials across her entry, her talent in writing and accuracy. It was both informative and entertaining. One of her pieces was a piece for the college youth, a newspaper that gave me my first bound line a few years back. And that was a piece covering the best golf courses across Ireland's taking readers as balls on a virtual tour of them, what made them special. Another piece was for golf digests. And that was a, again, a great insight into the history of Port Marnock golf course and what makes that such a special and revered place in golfing circles. And finally, probably my favorite piece from her three articles she submitted was a piece for the college view, which covers DCU women's team and their historic victory in the National League last year. And like any good journalist, she didn't just report the whot of the story. She went a bit deeper and talked to the players, the managers and kind of to understand to get across the why and the how of that great historic success. And for that reason, this year's sports journalist of the year winner is Dara Brown. Congrats, Dara. Our next award is for a journalist of the year and judging this is Zena Bolladale. Zena is a talented TV journalist whose career started in DCU and has taken her all the way to RTE. She is also the co-founder of Beyond Representation, a platform that champions Irish women of color who are breaking new grounds in Irish media, arts and business. Judging journalist of the year, Zena Bolladale. Hello, everyone. My name is Zena Bolladale. I'm an RTE presenter and reporter. Now, I'm really happy to be announcing the 2020 Harvard Award winner in the category of journalist of the year. The person who impressed me greatly was someone whose storytelling abilities I could see being used to tell stories in print, radio and TV. And I also felt like they kept their audience in mind when telling either new stories or writing future articles. And that person I'm happy to announce is Roshin Phelan. And the runner up is Anja Sowers. Our next award is for entertainment video of the year and judging this award is Emmith Jones. Emmith's career began back in his days in DCU as he is an esteemed alumni of MPS. His work in podcasting and video, as well as his experience in production has given him an established name in DCU. Judging entertainment video of the year is Emmith Jones. Hey, Jaws, beautiful looking man. And hello to all of the MPSers and journal socks and college views and everybody else that's here over this thing. It feels a little bit more like the Eurovision that I should be given 12 points to Zippon, to Dylan McCrory. But it's great to be back at the hybrids and judging entertainment video of the year. So I was delighted with the entries that I got. I was delighted with the commitment and how all of the videos came together from subject matter to scripts to lighting and colour and production design. And the all-has-earned griff cooble-dive Oscar Elgarcoma, which he named up. I was a little bit disappointed with this category that there wasn't more broadening from girls because you've got the talent, all you need to do is put it out there. But look, there's always next year. So my runner-up was Roy Egan, which I was very well-crafted in your video when you were jumping around, asking people to sing songs, which I was very entertaining. But my winner just for kind of pure class and how everything kind of came together and lighting and design and everything would have to be Louis Flanagan with his music video. So congratulations, Louis. See you later and best of luck. Moving on to our next award. This award is for poster of the year and judging this category is Laura Duffy. Laura is an incredibly talented artist and illustrator based in Dublin. Her art has become widely recognised and loved around Ireland. As a former DCU student, she is an example for all our students that you can make a name for yourself and follow your dreams. Judging poster of the year is Laura Duffy. Everyone, my name is Laura Duffy. I am an artist and illustrator based here in Dublin and I make lots of funky artworks like the stuff behind me. And I am delighted to be asked to judge the poster of the year category for the DCU hybrids this year. So let's get straight into it. So first we have the runner up poster which goes to Connor O'Neill and his poster for the Sunday soundtrack. This was a really cool poster. I loved the use of illustration as the main medium. I thought it made for a really unique design. So well done Connor. And so the winner of the hybrid award for poster of the year 2020 goes to Lorcan O'Reilly and his poster for the passion exhibition. This was a really cool poster. I especially loved the composition and I thought the color palettes were really, really strong as well as the texture that you used over top of the poster. I thought it was really cool. So well done Lorcan and thank you again to DCU hybrids for allowing me to judge this category. I hope you all stay safe and stay well and keep up the amazing work. Bye. Our next award is for promo video of the year and judging this category once again is Emmett Jones. From personal experience, Emmett Jones is an NPS legend. All-round nice guy was one of the go-to people for any advice or information when I was starting out in NPS. He's a legend. He's also worked so much as a freelance TV researcher, casting producer and producer. He's a legend and judging promo video of the year is Emmett Jones. Okay, so promo highlight video of the year. So I was delighted with the entries in this category and how they pulled the videos together to highlight or promote the events that were going on across the year. I very simply, very straightforwardly, my runner-up was Lachlan O'Reilly because of his use of graphics and how the skillful design and stuff that he used for the videos was excellent. Well, however, my winner and it was a clear winner was someone who tied up the event and kind of, it was very, very professionally done. We put it that way. And the fact that there was a bit of regret of going in there as well was absolutely no harm. So my winner of food tour, promo highlight video of the year, now Rory Egan, my reward. Our next award is for entertainment show of the year and judging this category is James Mitchell. James Mitchell is a multi-talented, multi-media guru. He is also currently a fan favorite on the popular Troy channel on YouTube. James is a DC and MPS alumni and was the host for the 24-hour broadcast in 2017. The year they raised a whopping 15,000 euro. Judging entertainment show of the year, James Mitchell. What's up, my name's Andy and I am filling in for James Mitchell tonight. As he said, he was too much of a hot bitch to record a video for the hybrids. And I am happy to announce though that James has picked Isabella Finn for the entertainment show of the year with Bella's Buzz. So congratulations, Isabella. Our next award is for documentary of the year and judging this award is Katrina Perry. Katrina is a multi-award winning journalist and she is currently co-anchor of the RTE61 news. She was previously RTE's Washington correspondent where she worked across TV, radio and digital platforms reporting on politics of all sorts, US related. Katrina has significant editorial experience and her work as a news anchor, presenter, documentary maker, producer and program editor makes her the perfect fit for our judging panel. Judging documentary of the year is Katrina Perry. Hi, it's me again. So Katrina couldn't actually send a video to announce her winners. She has whoever passed on her results along with some comments for her winner that I'm going to read out now. Katrina says, congratulations to Kate Gurren, Louis Flanagan, Aaron Lanane, Camilla Abu and Sean Kennedy for making a really interesting documentary in Baykeel, Reflections of an Empty City. The interviewees are really strong and although they may not see it as such in their contributions, they each prove that the city is far from empty. A good use of different locations to mix up the look of the film which also helped with pace. Overall, a thought provoking documentary with a clear voice, congratulations. Our next award is for Arts and Feature Journalist of the Year and judging this category is Sean Defoe. Sean has had an established career in journalism since he left DCU. He was also manager of DCU FM Hanoi was in first year in 2014. His career has spanned from spin to today FM, to news talk to RTE where he currently is the group political correspondent for Communicorn Media. We are so glad to have Sean back this year to judge the award as he is the winner of five previous hybrid awards. Judging, Arts and Feature Journalist of the Year is Sean Defoe. Hello MPS from a sunny Lentster house on a weird zoom call hybrid awards show thing. I actually feel incredibly gutted for you that you won't get to get absolutely hammered all in person and hug and kiss and slobber all over each other as the usual honour tradition of course at the hybrid awards but hopefully you'll still have a good night if you're having a few sneaky cans of Jack Slats anyway. This year I'm judging the Arts and Feature Journalist of the Year and I have to say some of the entries were absolutely fantastic. I actually learned things which I wasn't overly expecting when I got all of the entries in. I thought it was really, really high standard this year. Some fantastic journalism, some fantastic stories as well being told which is really what journalism is all about particularly when it comes to the likes of Features and it comes to this kind of journalism. So well done to all the entries. It was a really, really tough decision to pick this year. I wish I had a drum to roll but I'll just get into it. Did a runner up and a winner and so the runner up was O'Neill Boyle who I thought really fantastic top class engine. It was really a coin toss between the final two but the winner of this year's hybrid award is Peter O'Neill. Moving on to our next award and this award is for Website of the Year. Judging this category is Matthew Lynam. Matthew Lynam graduates DCU with a Bachelor of Science in Multimedia and since graduating he's been working as a content creator with Imagine Broadband responsible for producing TV and digital advertising campaigns. He also is a co-founder of Beam which is a creative agency specializing in web design and content creation. Judging Website of the Year is Matthew Lynam. Hi, everyone. Hope you're all enjoying yourself so far. Just want to say huge thanks for having me here this year. The hybrids are a brilliant event and it's an honor to be a part of it this year. If anyone's wondering why the lad who topped up lead character at the help desk is presenting an award it's because I actually graduated from multimedia and got a job in my field. I am now working with Imagine Broadband and I'm also co-founder of Beam, a creative agency where we specialize in web design. So for Website of the Year, what I consider a good website is a website that does what it's meant to do. It should be designed in a way that suits its purpose while working across all platforms such as mobile and laptops. It should still, however, have a sense of character and should give the user a good insight into the style of the brand it represents. Our winner managed to do exactly that. They built a website that was a brilliant introduction to the society that they represent. It worked well on different platforms. It was extremely functional. You were able to make bookings, get updates. You were even able to pay the four Euro Society fee online. So I'm delighted to present the award for Website of the Year to Lorcan O'Reilly. Moving on to our next category and this is an exciting one, Podcast of the Year. Judging this category is Cassie Delaney. Cassie Delaney is a media professional with over 10 years of experience in producing, editing and distributing media for Ireland's leading brands. Cassie is the queen of podcasts and within a year of launching her podcast Before Brunch, Cassie had formed her own company, Tall Tales Podcasts, which now produces some of the country's most entertaining content. Cassie is a regular creator as part of the Row Collective and online publication, creating intelligent content for women by women. Having been recognized by the Digidae Awards, the Content Marketing Awards and named as one of the Sunday Business Posts 2018 Top 30 Under 30, we are absolutely excited and honored to have her as part of our judging panel. Judging Podcast of the Year is Cassie Delaney. Hello, my name is Cassie Delaney and I'm the owner of Tall Tales Podcasts and I had a fantastic time judging podcasts of the year. I was totally blown away by the creativity, the production values and the themes that were coming up in the podcast. But one podcast stood out to me for its concept and its production. And I think that this person, this creator has hit on something really special, really, really enjoyable to listen to. And I'm delighted to announce that the podcast of the year is Clara Mooney's Scrap Book Time. We have reached our final award of the night and this is the good one. Our final award of the night is for Erie Shorneblena. And judging this award is Ola Magicadumi. Ola is a multi-award winning media professional who is currently working for RTE. She is currently working as a digital content creator, podcast producer and editor and Tuss Auche reporter in RTE. Her work with the Irish language has achieved awards such as Reata Oog and Blena in 2018 and Ola's video documentary, What Does Irishness Look Like when Viral after its release in 2018. Judging Erie Shorneblena, our final award for the night is Ola Magicadumi. Dave, recorded, Dave, grad of DCU, hybrid, Scurmi Lavagi. This is Misha Ola Magicadumi and this is Misha Unbreakable Category Erie Shorneblena. And this is Pedro Lomarra and Dante Avilig Uncategorical. Now, Rory Egan. Cogonica's more like a Rory. Mahir Irfan and Scurmi Rath. The Hirtasirfan, the Hiltu Shoth Bichit Ottawa Irfan. Hattishit Gomorra Lom. Bichit Irfan. Ory's Cymdan Irfan. Up and Ken. The Vel, a Hathalom. Now, Cricnik Uliric. Bichit Shin, just co-grand. Bichit Spril, the Fekinteir. And this, Bichit Shin and Ken. The Vel, a Hathalom. Cymdan Irfan. Bichit Gomorrin. And this, Keenche, Gaheril, Gaadu'a Laat. Amakum Shosneban. Tatoan Kalluk. And this, Orin Kailong Belga. And this is Gomorra. So, Mahir Irfan. Scurmi Rath. And this, Banagi Glersalt. Asaniya. And that is it. We have reached the end of the night. Those concludes the DCU Hybrid Student Media Awards 2020. And what a night. What a fantastic celebration of all the content that you have worked so tirelessly to create all year. I said it at the very beginning. I say it all the time. The hybrids is the pinnacle of the DCU calendar. It really squashes up everything onto one night of what the year has been. The content that you have made and produced has been around what goes on in the year. And it's such a fantastic thing that brings all that creative energy together and such a celebration of it. So I really hope you've enjoyed tonight's event. I've really enjoyed being here with you. Thank you for having me. Of course, it's a little bit different this year. This year has been so crazy, such a roller coaster. Of course, ideally we would have all liked to have been together in a lovely venue, hugging, embracing, getting absolutely shushed afterwards that you're probably gonna do anyway. You probably already are. Are we kidding here? But hopefully things go back to next year. Things go back to normal next year and we can celebrate properly. But well done to you. It doesn't matter if you won an award tonight or not. The fact that you have engaged in the year, that you have been a part of MPS, be it DCU TV, DCU FM, the blog, anything. If you've engaged in the year, which you have because you're here, well done. It's the best part about DCU. It's the best part about MPS. The fact that we get to bring all this content together, throw it on into one event, listen to it, talk about it, experience it and share it together. It's the best night of the year. So I really hope you've enjoyed. And congratulations, if you did win an award, if you didn't, it don't matter. I entered the hybrids every year when I was in DCU and only one of my final year. So, you know, you'll get there, it's fine. Thank you so much for having me. I really enjoyed it tonight, being your host, your virtual host. And one of the things that is part of being a virtual host is you don't know if I have been wearing pants tonight and you will never know. You know, it's just fun. I will give you one thing though. I was wearing a sliders, two sliders. So that was good, that was cozy. Whether or not I was wearing pants is up to your imagination. If you don't want to imagine me wearing, not wearing pants, please don't, I will never force you to do that. I hope you've enjoyed tonight. Thank you so much for having me. Go off and celebrate in a responsible and safe way. I'm not gonna harp on it being safe because you're all legends and you are doing your bit to protect each other and protect the world, the crazy world that we're living in right now. Thank you for having me. I hope you've enjoyed tonight. I did say at the start of the night that I would share with you another thing that I learned during lockdown. I played you my rendition of the Irish traditional 50 cent candy shop that I learned on the tin whistle at lockdown. It started locked in. So I will share with you what I learned before I learned 50 cent candy shop. It's more upbeat, it's more celebratory. So that's why I've left it to the end of tonight's event. If you can guess it, by all means go for it. I'm not gonna promise anything because it's kind of difficult one. So let's celebrate. Of course, another traditional Irish classic jig and or pump it up. Thank you so much for having me. I hope you've had a wonderful night. Go on and celebrate and we'll see you soon.