The The Spartan Daily won the Associated Collegiate Press national Pacemaker award in Best Newspaper and took 6 other national honors at the Fall National College Media Convention in Atlanta. The Daily took 4 national 1st place awards, and Access Magazine also won 1 national first place award. (1/4)

The The Spartan Daily also took 2nd place nationwide in the College Media Association Pinnacle Award contest for Best Newspaper. The Daily's special issue on Mental Health took 1st place nationwide as Best Special Issue, and its front page also won 1st place as Best Special Section Cover. (2/4)

The The Spartan Daily also took 1st place nationally for Best Newspaper Opinion Page/Spread for its Gender Euphoria column. Joanna Chavez won 1st place for Best Magazine Cover for Access Magazine, & Bojana Cvijic took second place nationwide for Best Column. (3/4)

The Daily's Faith & Religion issue also took ninth place nationwide in the ACP Best of Show competition. Please join me in congratulating our students on their success, and in working to get more funding for our student media. (4/4)

The The Spartan Daily had a very good night at the San Francisco Press Club Awards Wednesday evening. The Daily was named Best College Newspaper and won 15 other awards at the gala at the Elks Lodge in San Francisco. (Thanks to Michael Stoll for the photo of me with the awards certificates.)

The The Spartan Daily took third place nationwide for Best Newspaper in the Associated Collegiate Press Best of Show competition on Saturday, one of 11 national and statewide awards won by the Daily at the ACP national convention at the Hyatt Regency Aventine in La Jolla. (1/5)

In addition to the The Spartan Daily winning 3rd place nationwide for Best Newspaper, it took 3rd place in the convention's People's Choice competition among all print publications, and the Daily's Tracy Escobedo also took tenth place nationally for Best Design. (2/5)

In the CCMA statewide awards, also held at the national convention, the The Spartan Daily took 2nd place statewide for Best Special Issue/Section. Alicia Alvarez won two CCMA awards Saturday, winning first place for Best Editorial Cartoon and second for Best Newspaper Column. (3/5)

Bryanna Bartlett also won two awards, taking 1st place for Best Newspaper Inside Design and 2nd for Best Front Page Design.  Nathan Canilao and Alessio Cavalca shared 2nd place for editing the Mental Health special issue, while Myenn Rahnoma took 2nd for Page Design. (4/5)

Irene Milanez won statewide 3rd-place honors for Best Feature Photo, while Tracy Escobedo took 3rd place in the state for Best Illustration for her center spread in October's Faith and Religion issue. Congrats to all! (5/5)

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The Spartan Daily took home 27 awards tonight at the San Francisco Press Club Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards gala, more than any other campus news outlet. Details to follow.

In tonight's Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards, the The Spartan Daily took 10 first place awards, 13 second places and four third places. Alicia Alvarez took three awards, winning first place for Best News Story and second for Best Column and Best News Photo.  (1/6)

Alina Ta also took three awards, with first place for Best Breaking News Story, second place for Best Photo Series and third place for Best News Story.  Irene Milanez took first place for Best Feature Photo and second for Best Photo Series. (2/6)

Tracy Escobedo took first place for both Best Cover Design and Best Feature Layout Design.  Alexia Frederickson also won two awards, taking second place for Best Feature Story/Serious Subject and sharing second place for Best Photo Series. (3/6)

The Daily took second place for Best Campus Newspaper, w/editors Matthew Gonzalez, Jillian Darnell, Nathan Canilao & Alessio Cavalca honored. Bojana Cvijic took first place for Best Investigative Story, while Joanna Chavez shared first place honors for Best Cover Design. (4/6)

Brandon Nicolas took first place for Best Feature/Light Subject, Dylan Newman won first place for Best News Photo, & Carolyn Brown shared first place for Best Breaking News Story. Bryanna Bartlett & Myenn Rahnoma shared second place awards for Best Feature Layout Design. (5/6)

Maya Benmokhtar took second place for Best Sports Photo.  Cia Castro & Cammy Tan shared third place for Best Cover Design, & the late Jeremy Martin took third place for Best Column. Please join me in congratulating the Daily staff, and in supporting all our student media. (6/6)

My university, in the middle of a genuine crisis, has posted a meme with a grammatical error in it. Sigh. #sjsu