2008 Woodie Awards
Publications students win state journalism awards
Issue date: 10/9/08 Section: The Weekly
Amarillo College journalism students won nine awards Friday from the Texas Community College Journalism Association, including three for Rachel Nelson.
The awards were announced at the TCCJA convention in Corpus Christi.
In competition with other community colleges across the state, Nelson took both first and second places in editorial writing in the Division I newspaper category.
The first-place award was for an editorial in The Ranger in October 2007.
The editorial criticized a Colorado student newspaper for its four-letter-word assessment of President Bush.
The second place certificate was for a November 2007 editorial promoting the right of college students to drop as many courses as they want.
Nelson, now a copy editor at the Amarillo Globe-News, also placed first in the Division 1 newswriting category for her December 2007 story on AC history and government textbooks that were accused of political bias.
Jon McEwen placed second in the open magazine division for his fall 2007 story on the AC media convergence program.
Receiving honorable mention were Maddisun Fowler for her design of the contents pages of the fall 2007 AC Current magazine; The Ranger for its online edition; Brittani Wray and Josh Godsey for their Ranger picture page covering Fallfest 2007; Rebekah Thompson for her November 2007 photo of a hot-air balloon in Palo Duro Canyon; and Cindy Maggiulli for her sports feature story on a Swedish fencer in a February 2008 Ranger.
Wray also is a Globe-News copy editor.
The awards were announced at the TCCJA convention in Corpus Christi.
In competition with other community colleges across the state, Nelson took both first and second places in editorial writing in the Division I newspaper category.
The first-place award was for an editorial in The Ranger in October 2007.
The editorial criticized a Colorado student newspaper for its four-letter-word assessment of President Bush.
The second place certificate was for a November 2007 editorial promoting the right of college students to drop as many courses as they want.
Nelson, now a copy editor at the Amarillo Globe-News, also placed first in the Division 1 newswriting category for her December 2007 story on AC history and government textbooks that were accused of political bias.
Jon McEwen placed second in the open magazine division for his fall 2007 story on the AC media convergence program.
Receiving honorable mention were Maddisun Fowler for her design of the contents pages of the fall 2007 AC Current magazine; The Ranger for its online edition; Brittani Wray and Josh Godsey for their Ranger picture page covering Fallfest 2007; Rebekah Thompson for her November 2007 photo of a hot-air balloon in Palo Duro Canyon; and Cindy Maggiulli for her sports feature story on a Swedish fencer in a February 2008 Ranger.
Wray also is a Globe-News copy editor.
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