By The Washtenaw Voice
The Washtenaw Voice received seven first-place awards including best overall newspaper design and best in-depth enterprise reporting at the Michigan Community College Press Association’s annual conference on Saturday, April 1 at Central Michigan University.
In all, Voice students came home with 15 awards from the journalism contest judged by industry professionals.
In addition to the first-places, the Voice was awarded second in general excellence, a category that considers all aspects of a publication’s reporting, visuals and presentation.
The MCCPA contest included work produced March 1, 2022, through February of this year.
The WCC award winners were:
First place
Second place
Third place
Honorable mention
Saturday, April 1 was the first time the event had been held in-person since the COVID-19 pandemic emptied campuses in 2020.
Students from participating community colleges heard from industry professionals including Julie Stafford, publisher of the Greenville (MI) Daily News, Detroit Free Press sports editor Kirkland Crawford, MLive editor Leanne Smith, and National Press Photographers Association’s small-market photographer of the year Jake May.
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