Hard
News Cafe, student writers, ATV News win Mark of Excellence
awards
April 21, 2008 | Students of the USU department of
journalism and communication won 15 Mark of Excellence
awards at the Society of Professional Journalists Region
9 conference in Fort Collins, Colo.
The Hard News Café, the department's student-run news
and information site, was named best all-around independent
student publication of Region 9, which comprises colleges
and universities in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming.
ATV News, the weekly cablecast news program produced
by students of the department's broadcasting sequence,
took third place.
The regional contest honors top student works of journalism
published or broadcast in 2007. Winners were announced
April 12. First-place winners will compete for national
awards this fall.
Individual winners were: Alison Baugh, third place,
online news reporting; Jen Beasley, second place, online
opinion and commentary, and second place, online feature
reporting; Rebekah Bradway, first place, online in-depth
reporting, and third place, online opinion and commentary;
Trevor Brasfield, second place, online in-depth reporting;
Devin Felix, third place, online feature reporting;
Jacob S. Fullmer, first place, online opinion and commentary;
Miriah Griffith, first place, online feature reporting;
Christy Jensen, second place, online sports reporting;
David Sweeney, first place, online news reporting, and
second place, online news reporting; and Coy Whittier,
third place, online in-depth reporting.
Devin Felix and Brittny Goodsell Jones also won second
place awards for stories that appeared in the Utah
Statesman.
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