PNAJE ANNOUNCES WINNERS IN COLLEGE JOURNALISM CONTEST

The Advocate, Mt. Hood’s student newspaper, won first place for print general excellence in the Pacific Northwest Association of Journalism Educators (PNAJE) 2019 college competition, in results announced this week.

This year, there were 380 team/individual entries from Oregon and Washington schools; however, Idaho, Alaska, and Montana schools were also eligible to enter. Entries consisted of work that students completed from Spring Quarter 2018 through Winter Quarter 2019.

Students were given constructive feedback from 19 judges, comprised of communications professionals who currently or previously worked for publications across the U.S., including the The Washington Post, Newsday, The Detroit News, McClatchy Newspapers, The Olympian, The News Virginian and The (Tacoma) News Tribune. Other judges included communication professors from Western Washington University, Everett Community College, Foster Web Marketing, Averill & Associates LLC and PRI/PRX. (For a list of judges, please view final paragraph.)

The Advocate also placed third in the publications sweeps categories – meaning it placed third in most awards won overall.

Individual awards not mentioned above include the following:

Individual sweeps:

Third place, Fletcher Wold

Comprehensive coverage:

First place, 

Cassie Wilson & Megan Phelps

Staff editorials:

First and second place

Sports feature reporting:

First place, Jonathan Zacarias

Review

Third place, Kurt Larson

Photo essay:

First place, Fletcher Wold

Features photo:

Honorable Mention, 

Fletcher Wold

Editorial cartoon or illustration

Third place, Eli Rankin

Best website:

Honorable Mention (staff)

Sports photo

Honorable Mention, 

Fletcher Wold

Portrait photography:

Honorable Mention, 

Fletcher Wold

Photo illustration/graphics

Honorable Mention, Eli Rankin

Personality profile:

Honorable Mention, 

Cassie Wilson

Judges:

Khristopher Brooks, reporter at Newsday in New York/adjunct professor at SUNY Old Westbury; Alex Veeneman, journalist; Renae Gould, marketing specialist, Foster Web Marketing; Tony Greiner, former adviser, Portland Community College student newspaper, “The Bridge”; Nick Assendelft, Michigan Agency for Energy and Michigan Public Service Commission; Jonathan Nesvig, retired journalist; Steve Bloom, photojournalist, The Olympian; John Harris, associate professor, Department of Journalism, Western Washington University; Michelle Mitchell, photojournalist at The News Virginian; Dianne Averill, managing partner, and Michael Rizzo, creative director, from Averill & Associates LLC; Jo Herrera, audience engagement specialist at PRI/PRX; Victoria Lim, multimedia pioneer, journalist and educator; Roxanne Cooke, photographer; Kirk Ericson, writer/editor; Whitney Juckno, The Washington Post; Kerry Swenson, former copy editing and design professional; T. Andrew Wahl, journalism and media communication instructor, Everett Community College.