CMA's Pinnacle Awards honor the best college media organizations and individual work. The contest is open to student work produced for any college media organization, including print, broadcast and online outlets, during an academic year. 

ORGANIZATIONAL PINNACLES: Review guidelines and categories for the Pinnacle Awards for media organizations. CMA will name the best TV and radio stations, websites, feature and literary magazines, newspapers and yearbooks of the year at the Fall National College Media Convention, plus Best News Outlet.

INDIVIDUAL PINNACLES: Review guidelines and categories for the Pinnacle Awards for individual work. CMA will give individual BroadcastSports, WritingOnlinePhoto, Design and Advertising awards. Winners will be announced at the Fall National College Media Convention. 

You can find the 2022 Pinnacle Award winners here.

Finalists can be found here.

Past winners:

2020-2021

2019-2020

2018-2019

2017-2018

2016-17

2015-16

2014-15

2013-14

2012-13

2011-12