Beacon Wins Six First Place Awards, Advances to National Competition

April 21, 2017

The University of Portland’s student-run digital news publication, The Beacon, has won six First Place awards in the regional Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence contest, and now advances to the national SPJ competition in the following categories:

Digital:

Best Digital-only Student Publication (Beacon staff)
Online News Reporting: “Portland shark attack survivor begins to pick up the pieces” (Rachel Rippetoe)

Small university (9,999 or fewer undergraduates):

General News Reporting: “Disconnected: Black students on The Bluff feel they don’t belong” (Malika Andrews)
Feature Writing: “Students dig up American’s racist past” (Jenna Rossiter, Clare Duffy)
Breaking News Photography: “Champions at last” (Annika Gordon)
Feature Photography: “Snowpocalypse” (Annika Gordon)

National winners will be notified in the late spring and will be recognized at the Excellence in Journalism conference in Anaheim, Calif., in September.

Beacon content also placed in regional finals (Second or Third Place) in the following categories:

Breaking News Reporting (Clare Duffy, Hannah Baade)
In-depth Reporting (Clare Duffy, Malika Andrews, Rachel Rippetoe, Annika Gordon)
Sports Writing (Malika Andrews)
Best Use of Multimedia (Cheyenne Schoen, Jeff Braccia)
Online News Reporting (Clare Duffy,Hannah Baade)
Online In-depth Reporting (Clare Duffy, Malika Andrews, Rachel Rippetoe, Hannah Baade, Jenna Rossiter)

The Mark of Excellence Awards for Region 10 involved student media entries from colleges and universities in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. See complete regional contest results here.

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