Student Media & Arts Fair 2024

Do you enjoy writing, taking pictures, playing music, watching films, illustrating, attending concerts, going to art gallery exhibitions or otherwise getting creative in your free time? Want to see a live ktru DJ set? Do you just like free food and cool art? Come to the Student Media & Arts Fair at the Moody Center…

Student Media & Arts Fair 2023

Do you enjoy writing, taking pictures, playing music, watching films, illustrating, attending concerts, going to art gallery exhibitions or otherwise getting creative in your free time? Want to see a live KTRU DJ set? Do you just like free food and cool art? Come to the Student Media & Arts Fair at the Moody Center for the…

Apply to be Thresher’s New Advertising Manager

The Thresher is looking to hire a new Advertising Manager! Apply to the role through Handshake here. Below is a description of the role and requirements: The advertising manager is responsible for ensuring that the Thresher is financially self-sufficient by maintaining relationships with local advertisers and national advertising agencies. The advertising manager oversees the advertising…

Rice Thresher wins 19 awards in state competition

The Rice Thresher won 19 awards, including first place overall excellence, in the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association‘s annual contest. Additionally, the Thresher swept the best use of social media, breaking news category. Additionally, the Campanile yearbook won two awards. 1st place awards Narrative Reporting — Critical Review Queen and Slim Taylor Crain Narrative Reporting ­­–…

Campanile, Thresher win 16 national awards

Eric Stone | The Rice Thresher  Rice Campanile and the Rice Thresher won a combined 16 awards at the joint Associated College Press/College Media Association convention in Louisville, Kentucky last weekend. The CMA’s Pinnacle Awards, along with the ACP’s Pacemakers and Individual Awards, recognize the nation’s best in college student media for the 2017-18 academic year….

Rice Thresher ranked #12 in Princeton Review rankings

For the first time in known history, The Rice Thresher was ranked in the Princeton Review rankings. The student-run newspaper came in 12th in the nation in the survey. By B.J. Almond Rice also ranked No. 1 for quality of life, lots of race/class interaction and No. 2 for happiest students. The best quality of…

Thresher and Campanile celebrate 100 years with awards

The Rice Thresher and Campanile celebrated their 100th years by garnering numerous first place awards on the national and state level. The Thresher placed first place in College Media Association’s Apple Awards presented at the Spring National College Media Convention in March. The editor in chief was Andrew Ta. Additionally, The Thresher won the overall…

Student Media staffs name award winners

During the end of the year banquet in April, the staffs of The Rice Thresher and The Campanile handed out awards and honored graduating seniors. The Thresher recognized Bobb Award winners Christen Sparago (news writing) and Rachel Marcus and Molly Chiu (feature writing). New this year, the staff voted for the Greg Kahn Staffer of…