Emily Kelley / Roundup
Over the last two weeks, current and former students from the Pierce College Media Arts department were awarded 31 awards by two different journalism organizations.
Twenty-six awards were collected at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges State Conference April 8 to 10, and one general excellence award and 4 individual awards were collected at the California College Media Association at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Calif the following weekend.
Eighteen students and four professors traveled to the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Downtown L.A.for the three-day conference.
Awards were given in two categories: Mail-In, which recognized work published during the 2009-2010 academic year, and On-the-Spot, which recognized the work produced at the conference.
The weekly Roundup Newspaper, the semi-annual BULL Magazine and the rounduponline.net were all acknowledged in the Mail-In awards.
For the Mail-In awards, the BULL staff received an honorable mention for magazine cover and the Roundup staff was recognized for enterprise story/series.
Gil Riego Jr., former editor in chief of the Roundup, and Alina Popov, former staff photographer/writer, took home three awards each.
Riego Jr. took home an honorable mention for editorial writing with Rachel Roth, and unranked award for videojournalism with Jenny Tran and second place for infographic.
Arash Akhtari Rad also won an unranked award for videojournalism.
Popov received third place in student designed advertisement, unranked meritorious for online photo essay and honorable mention for feature photo.
Philip George, former staff writer for the Roundup, received first place for sports game coverage.
“I honestly thought it was a joke,” said George, who is now a freshman at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. “It really made my night.”
George had previously won second place in on-the-spot feature writing at the 2009 State Convention.
Anibal Ortiz, current editor in chief of the BULL Magazine received an honorable mention for online photo essay.
Jared Iorio, the Fall 2009 editor for the BULL, won first place for magazine photo essay.
The Roundup’s current multimedia editor, Gerard Walsh, won first place for his sports action shot of women’s soccer and honorable mention for a sports feature photo.
“I was actually speechless,” said Walsh, 22, a photojurnalism major. “I wasn’t expecting to win anything.”
Amber-Rose Kelly received honorable mention for her feature photo.
Former Roundup staff writer Shannon Berry won second place and honorable mention for opinion writing.
Shant Kiraz won second place in magazine photo and Darrin Davis and Kris Prue-Cook received second place for magazine illustration.
Caesar Maguina won third place for editorial cartoon.
Sayed Balkhi, a current staff photographer for the Roundup won honorable mention for news photo.
In the On-the-Spot competitions, Elliot Golan, current managing editor of the Roundup, won honorable mention for his feature story on the Grammy museum. Golan also received a Mail-In honorable mention for feature writing.
Louie Heredia, Natalie Yemenidjian and Tyler McGee took home second place for team feature, in which they produced an audio slideshow entitled “Keeper of the Stars, about a man who cleans the Hollywood Walk of Fame stars.
Rob O’Neil, an advisor for the Roundup for over 30 years, received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his many years of service.
“I was grateful to receive the award from my peers,” said O’Neil, who worked for the L.A. Times for 5 years. “I like to think the award was more for the quality of my years, rather than the quantity.”
The next weekend, 4 students and 3 staff members traveled to Hearst Castle, the home of media giant William Randolph Hearst, to pick up awards for photography and a general excellence award for the Spring 2009 edition of the BULL Magazine.
—
ekelley.roundupnews@gmail.com
