City College journalism, graphic design students win 15 awards

Sac City wins big at the annual JACC and SPJ conventions

Originally published April 12, 2012 by SacCityExpress.com

Logo courtesy JACC.

Students in the journalism and graphic communication programs recently won a total of 15 awards — including five first-place awards — from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges and the Society of Professional Journalists for excellence in producing issues of the Express newspaper and Mainline magazine in 2011.

The awards were earned for entries into both organizations’ annual competitions.

The print edition of the Express newspaper and the Mainline magazine won general excellence awards, acknowledgement of overall and steady excellence in each publication throughout the year.

Five City College students won first-place awards, four students won second-place awards and an editorial from the Express staff won a fourth-place award from the statewide JACC mail-in competition, which includes nearly 100 community college journalism programs across the state. There were also three honorable mentions.

From the Society of Professional Journalists, whose competition took in 4,000 entries from California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii La Tisha Clayton won a first-place award for online news reporting on the Sacramento Occupy movement. Another student won a second-place award.

Check out the April 17 print issue of the Express for a full story on the winners and the competition.

For the complete list of winners, including links to the work that won the awards, see below.

GENERAL EXCELLENCE
Express newspaper

Mainline magazine

1st-PLACE AWARDS

Richard Hanna, SPORTS FEATURE PHOTO Sacramento City College
http://www.jacconline2.org/12state/mailin/pc1.pdf

L.T. Clayton, ONLINE NEWS REPORTING (SPJ)
http://saccityexpress.com/2011/12/01/occupy-sacramento

Patrick Higgins, NEWSPAPER LINE ILLUSTRATION
http://www.jacconline2.org/12state/mailin/gh1.pdf

Jack Remson, INSIDE PAGE LAYOUT
http://www.jacconline2.org/12state/mailin/gf1.pdf

Sam Almaguer, INFORMATIONAL GRAPHIC
http://www.jacconline2.org/12state/mailin/gg1.pdf

2ND-PLACE AWARDS

L.T. Clayton, VIDEO JOURNALISM
http://saccityexpress.com/2011/12/01/occupy-sacramento