RCC Student Journalists Win National Multimedia Award
Riverside City College's student newspaper, Viewpoints won a national award Oct. 31 from the Associated Collegiate Press at its annual convention in Austin, Texas.
Viewpoints received the second place Story of the Year award in the category of multimedia package, finishing ahead of online newspapers at the University of Chicago and Baker University. Taking first place was the student newspaper at Northern Illinois University.
Viewpoints is the only community college newspaper nationwide to have been selected as a finalist for ACP's multimedia Story of the Year award.
Only one other community college newspaper in the nation was selected as a finalist for a Story of the Year award, LA City College's Collegian, for a sports story.
Viewpoints' entry in the contest was the special multimedia Web site its student staff put together for its November 2008 state and national election coverage. The site included videos, still photos, slideshows, blogs, stories, and a live chat.
Professional journalists and editors serving as contest judges selected finalists and winners based on the following criteria: value, importance or worth of story; quality of reporting and quotes; quality of writing and editing; credibility and leadership; innovation in use of multimedia (audio, video, slide shows, graphics, etc.); technical quality of multimedia elements; and adherence to copyright laws.
Viewpoints editor-in-chief Stephanie Holland and photo editor Martin Iniguez attended the convention with the newspaper’s adviser, Allan Lovelace, and training technician, Tim Guy.
Viewpoints students won a first place ACP Story of the Year award in 2000 and third place in 2003, in competition with university students nationwide. The newspaper also won national ACP Pacemaker awards, which are considered the Pulitzer Prize in college journalism, in 2005 and 2004.
To see a list of winners for 2009, visit ACP's Web site: http://studentpress.org/acp/winners/story09.html.
Allan Lovelace
Associate Professor of Journalism
Viewpoints Adviser
(951) 222-8487
Posted by: Webmaster on November 04, 2009