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Print named top CC newspaper in Oregon
Veteran staff
receives 14 honors
including coveted
“General
Excellence” award
Rankin decision due today
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Awards
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ourteen awards were handed
to the staff of the Print last
Friday at the annual Oregon
Newspaper
Publisher
Association’s [ONPA] awards con
ference in Beaverton.
Bringing home the most hon
ors in the newspaper’s history,
The Clackamas Print received
first place in the “General Excel
1st Place Best News Story
lence” category—an award that
names it the top community col
lege newspaper in the state.
With 16 college newspapers in
attendance, the Print competed
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against other two-year school pa
John Thorburn
pers, bettering the competition in
Editor-in-Chief
the highly-respected category.
In the past, Clackamas has not
even placed, let alone taken first
place in “General Excellence.”
With nine staff members return
ing from a staff that won 11
awards at last year’s conference,
this group of editors, writers and
Karl Katzke
photographers now has 25 awards
Business Manager
among them.
Individually, staff members won
• 13 separate awards for work sub-
mitted from the past school year
and last spring term as Well.
“Rankin story unfolds in hear
ing,” a news story written by John
Thorburn, Karl Katzke and Shelbi
Shelbi Wescott
Wescott last fall, won first place
Former Feature Editor
as the Best News Story.
Angie Daschel took first place
1st Place Best Headline Writing
in Best Headline writing.
Joel Gunderson, who returned
to the staff winter term after go
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Best Cartoonist.
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Thorburn was given first place in
the Best Sports story category.
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versy earned second place hon
ors for Best Special Section—a
two-page spread laid out by
Megan Oldenstadt in the March
1, Issue 16 paper.
Sarah Welch, former photo edi
tor, earned an award for Best Fea
ture Photo for a picture of Jennifer
Rankin from last spring.
In third place or honorable men
tion, Thorburn won for Best Sec
tion for sports from last spring as
well as Best Photography.
Chris Lundgren took third as
Best Cartoonist giving the Print
two of the three award recipients
in the category.
Daschel also took third in both
the Best Writing and Best Review
categories.
Salena De La Cruz was given
an honorable mention as Best
Columnist.
In the Best Series category,
Sandy Lupo was awarded hon
orable mention for her ongo
ing coverage of the “Epstein
incident.”
1st Place General Excellence
2nd Place
Best Feature Photo
Sarah Welch
Former Photo Editor
Honorable Mention
Best Writing
Angie Daschel
A&E Editor
Honorable Mention
Best Review
Honorable Mention
Best Photography
John Thorburn
Editor-in-Chief
Honorable Mention
Best Section
Honorable Mention
Best Series
(Epstein incident series)
Sandy Lupo
Copy Editor
Honorable Mention
Best Special Section
(Two Popes Boinking)
1st Place Best Sports Story
Megan Oldenstadt
Managing Editor
Honorable Mention
Best Cartooning
John Thorburn
Editor-in-Chief
1st Place Best Cartooning
Chris Lundgren
Cartoonist
Honorable Mention
Best Columnist
Joel D. Gunderson
Cartoonist
Salena De La Cruz
Opinion Editor