On the 27th of November in St. Petersburg the winners of the federal contest “Media Generation 2009” were awarded during the official ceremony. SSU website took the first place in category “The Best University Website”.
The contest was organized by Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Media Soyuz (Union) and Agency of Liberal Arts Technologies. More than 300 applications were submitted to participate in the contest, from every corner of Russia.The jury of the contest was comprised mostly of representatives from Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, prominent journalists, mass-media directors, leading companies in mass-media and telecom areas. They chose the best in every category: the best university newspaper, website, radio station, TV channel, journalist material about student life.
54 finalists were invited to St. Petersburg to participate in a conference and final stage of the contest. SSU website and Electronic mass-media Lab of SSU Institute of Philology and Journalism were among those.
Sergei Grishin, Chair of Youth Policy and NGOs Cooperation Committee of St. Petersburg Government, Elena Zelinskaya, Vice-President of MediaSoyuz and others were delivered their speeches.The final stage of the contest also included meeting with prominent journalists, sociologists, entrepreneurs and also university newspapers exhibition. Contest nominees presented their mass-media.
SSU website was awarded the first place. At the beginning SSU website was recognized as a leader, and after website presentation there was no doubt about it. Also, SSU website was awarded Grand Prix – highest award in the contest. SSU mass-media representatives were given certificate, signed by Andrei Fursenko, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation and Valeriy Fadeev, MediaSoyuz President. The prize was crystal symbol with laser engraving.
SSU mass-media were also presented in “The Best University Radio”. Electronic mass-media Lab of SSU Institute of Philology and Journalism took the second place, which is also recognized as a very good result.Jury noted that criteria for the choosing winners were professionalism, up-to-date news and original topic presentation.
This version of SSU website was launched in December 2009. There are many useful services for the visitors: “Local events”, “Q & A”, “Online Interviews” and others. Website traffic increased 20 times. In July 2009 the highest number of visitors was recorded. In this month alone, SSU website pages were viewed 796 590 times.
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There were several nominees in category “The Best University Website”: SSU webstite (
