The National Student Media Awards or Smedias[1] are an annual All-Ireland student journalism competition run by the Oxygen.ie website.
[2][3] The awards have been labelled "Ireland's premier student awards".
[4][5] Since 2000, Oxygen.ie, a website aimed at third-level students, has run a student journalism competition.
[6] As of the 2020 awards[update], submissions are invited in a number of categories.
[7][8] These included Editor of the Year (previously won by UCD's University Observer),[9] Magazine of the Year (previously won by DCU's Flux),[9] Newspaper of the Year (including previous winners The University Times,[10] Trinity News,[11] and University Observer), Sports Writer of the Year (previously won by The College View),[11] and Website of the Year (previously won by Sin.ie).