ACP News & Notes

Announced today:

2008 ACP Newspaper Pacemaker Finalists

2008 ACP Magazine Pacemaker Finalists

Announced in the spring:

2008 ACP Online Pacemaker Finalists

2007 ACP Yearbook Pacemaker Finalists

Later in the fall, at the above pages, there will be links to publication images and comments from the judges. Winners of all of these contests will be announced at the ACP/CMA convention in Kansas City.

Here is a press release for the newly announced Newspaper and Magazine Pacemakers:

The Associated Collegiate Press is pleased to announce the 2008 Newspaper and Magazine Pacemaker finalists. Out of 241 newspaper entries in three categories, judges from The St. Petersburg Times selected 48 entries for recognition. The list of finalists is available at: http://acp.studentpress.org/winners/npm08.html

Out of 78 magazine entries, judges from The New York Times Magazine selected 10 finalists for the feature magazine category, and judges from The National Poetry Review selected eight finalists for the literary magazine category. The list of finalists is available at: http://acp.studentpress.org/winners/mpm08.html

Newspaper finalists were chosen based on excellence in the following areas: Coverage and content, quality of writing and editing, leadership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth reporting, layout and design, and photography, art and graphics.

Magazine finalists were chosen based on excellence in the following areas: Content, quality of writing and editing, photography, art and graphics, layout and design and overall concept.

The winners will be honored at the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention awards ceremony in Kansas City on Nov. 1. Information about the convention is available online at acp.studentpress.org.

Since 1927, the Pacemaker has been the highest honor available to ACP members and today is considered one of the most prestigious awards in collegiate journalism.

ACP encourages properly cited use of this information for individual press releases. Please contact Kathy Huting, contest and critique coordinator, for further information.

ACP is a division of the National Scholastic Press Association, a non-profit education organization which strives to educate and recognize the work of student journalists, to improve the quality of student media and to foster careers in media.

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