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By the USU Department of Journalism and Communication
The Hard News Cafe won two second-place awards in the Society of Professional Journalists' national Mark of Excellence Awards competition for 2002. Marie Griffin and Joseph M. Dougherty took second in the "Online In-Depth Reporting" category for a story on the backlash against a high school student's newspaper column. "Unpopular column brings Tremonton student fame, grief" was published in November. Leon D'souza also took second in the "Online Opinion and Commentary" category for a series of entries. These include a column that analyzes growing tensions with Iraq and another that questions the rationale for war. The Mark of Excellence Awards annually honor the best in student journalism. The awards offer 45 categories for print, radio, television, and online collegiate journalism. Entries are first judged on the regional level, with first-place winners forwarded to the national competition, whose winners were announced Saturday. National winners will be honored at the 2003 SPJ National Convention in Tampa, Fla. The Hard News Cafe's winners were the only ones from Utah.
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