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Student newspaper wins top national award
The online edition of Whitworth's student newspaper, The Whitworthian, won a 2009 Associate Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award, considered the most esteemed honor in student journalism.
The Whitworthian online, found at www.whitworthian.com, combines text and photos and incorporates a variety of multimedia tools such as video, slideshows and interactive timelines. The online entries were judged by Ellyn Angelotti, interactivity editor for the Poynter Institute, who noted that the winning sites displayed excellence in areas including the integration of multimedia and user-generated content, breadth of coverage and sound news judgment.
Roughly 220 schools nationwide participated in the online contest, which was divided into four categories. Whitworth was one of 20 schools selected as finalists in the four-year non-daily online newspaper category and was the only school from the Pacific Northwest represented in that category. The Whitworthian competed against universities as much as four times Whitworth's size, including the University of Miami and the University of Missouri.
In addition to winning an online Pacemaker award, The Whitworthian was selected as a finalist in the print edition awards category, making it one of only four non-daily newspapers in the country that were finalists in both the print and online categories. Whitworth's print edition was judged alongside those of schools including the University of Chicago, MIT, Vanderbilt University, and Ithaca College.
"The Whitworthian has a record of doing excellent work," says Jim McPherson, associate professor of communication studies and the newspaper's advisor. "Last year, under the leadership of editor-in-chief Joy Bacon and web editor Jasmine Linabary (Class of '09), it reached new levels, and this year's staff picked up right where last year's left off."
The current newspaper staff includes editor-in-chief Morgan Feddes, '11, and online editor Yong Kim, '11, as well as 16 editors and roughly 40 reporters, columnists, photographers and graphic designers.
To read about other top awards The Whitworthian has garnered in recent years, visit www.whitworth.edu/communicationstudies.
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