12 Griffith College Students Nominated for 2026 SMEDIAS Awards
The nominations for the National Student Media Awards 2026 have now been announced!
We are delighted to share that 12 students from the Faculty of Journalism and Media Communications have been nominated for Student of the Year prizes in Ireland’s most prestigious annual national student media competition.
Griffith College Nominees
Design & Layout Of The Year - D08 Magazine
Ana Victoria Romero Delahanty, Melanie Watson, Sebastian Bras Harriott - (MA in Journalism & Digital Communications).
Small College or Society Publication of the Year - D08 Magazine
Ana Victoria Romero Delahanty, Melanie Watson, Sebastian Bras Harriott - (MA in Journalism & Digital Communications).
Photographer of the Year
Laura Nadal – Griffith College (BA (Hons) in Communications & Media Production).
Sports Photographer of the Year
Iwo Drózdz – Griffith College Dublin (BA (Hons in Business Studies).
News Photographer of the Year
Patrik Meier - (BA (Hons) in Communications & Media Production).
Radio Documentary of the Year
Agoro Suliat Olamide, Mariana Figueiredo, Megan Noaln– Griffith College (MA in Journalism & Digital Communications).
Film Documentary of the Year
Léna Couartou, Cian Nugent – Griffith College (BA (Hons) in Film, TV & Screen Media Production).
Sports Film of the Year
Albert Bekaev– Griffith College (BA (Hons) in Film, TV & Screen Media Production).
SMEDIAS 2026
We would like to wish the very best of luck to all students nominated for their work and say thank you to their dedicated lecturers who helped to get them there.
It is fantastic to see our students up for national recognition across the digital communications sectors of radio, journalism, photography and magazines.
This year's black-tie awards event will take place at the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road in Dublin on Wednesday, 29th April.