News-Register
ranks among top 25 in nation
Special to the News-Register
Campus newspaper wins 2004 Pacemaker
The News-Register, North Lake College‘s
campus newspaper, was one of 25 college newspapers
across the nation to receive the coveted Pacemaker
Award from the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP).
Only three Texas colleges were 2004 Pacemaker
winners — North Lake, Southern Methodist
University, and San Antonio College. In addition
to the Texas papers, a few of the other winners
included prestigious universities such as Harvard,
Brigham Young and Murray State.
First given in 1926, the Pacemaker honors those
setting the pace, surpassing all others, and is
the highest honor ACP gives to its members.
The winners were selected by the staff of the
Nashville Tennessean based on excellence in the
following areas:
1. Coverage and content
2. Quality of writing / reporting
3. Opinion page leadership
4. In-depth reporting
5. Layout/design
6. Photography, art and graphics
In early October, the News-Register staff was
notified that the North Lake publication had been
selected as one of 58 finalists from the 221 entries.
“The judges this year told me that the
entries, as usual, were exceptional,” said
Chad Rummel, contest coordinator and meeting planner
for the ACP, in an e-mail to the News-Register’s
advisor, Kathleen Stockmier.
It was the first year for the News-Register to
enter the competition, and Editor Josh Bohling
was in Nashville to accept the award.
“The Pacemaker is like winning the Pulitzer
at the college level,” said Bohling, who
now attends the University of Texas at Arlington
where he works as the design editor for the award-winning
newspaper The Shorthorn. “It is very, very,
very cool.”
The Pacemaker competition is co-sponsored by
the Newspaper Association of America.
It has been a banner year for the News-Register.
In April, the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
(TIPA) honored the publication with 10 awards,
including “Best Overall Newspaper”
in its category. The TIPA competition is limited
to Texas colleges, and two-year schools compete
with four-year schools of the same size.
At the Texas Community College Journalism Association
(TCCJA) convention in Houston in October, the
News-Register received seven awards. Membership
in TCCJA is limited to two-year colleges across
the state. Since 1998, North Lake’s campus
newspaper has received 76 awards for journalism
excellence.
For more information about the News-Register
and the journalism program at North Lake College,
call 972-273-3498.
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honored with the 2004 Pacemaker are as follows
(in alphabetical order):
1. The Orion, California State University,
Chico, Calif.
2. Daily Bruin, University of California,
Los Angeles
3. Viewpoints, Riverside Community College,
Riverside, Calif.
4. The Advocate, Contra Costa College, San
Palo, Calif.
5. The Santa Clara, Santa Clara University,
Santa Clara, Calif.
6. Technique, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, Ga.
7. District, Savannah College of Art and
Design, Savannah, Ga.
8. Kapio, Kapiolani Community College, Honolulu,
Hawaii
9. Scroll, Brigham Young University-Idaho,
Rexburg, Idaho
10. Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University,
Evanston, Ill.
11. The Baker Orange, Baker University,
Baldwin City, Kansas
12. The University of Daily Kansan, University
of Kansas, Lawrence,
Kansas
13. The Murray State News, Murray State
University, Murray, Kentucky
14. The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.
15. Daily Nebraskan, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Neb.
16. Washington Square News, New York University
17. Observer, Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland
18. The Oklahoma Daily, University of Oklahoma,
Norman
19. Triangle, Drexel University, Philadelphia,
Pa.
20. The Daily Pennsylvanian, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
21. Daily Campus, Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas
22. News-Register, North Lake College,
Irving, Texas
23. The Ranger, San Antonio College, San
Antonio, Texas
24. The Times, Milwaukee Area Technical
College
25. Northwest Trail, Northwest College,
Powell, Wyoming
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