Bucks County Community College’s student-run newspaper the Centurion earned 15 Student Keystone Press Awards from the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation for 2019, the most ever in one year, including eight first-place prizes.
That brings the total awards that the newspaper has won in the two-year college division of the statewide contest to 108 since it began entering in 2010. It placed first in General News, Ongoing News Coverage, Public Service/Enterprise Package, Feature Story, Personality Profile, Feature Photo, Website, and Video Story. The paper also won honors for packages of stories about the #MeToo movement, the Parkland school shooting and resulting protests, and the 2018 midterms.
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visitbucks.edu/journalism or contact professor Tony Rogers at
bucksjournalism@gmail.com or 215-968-8165.
The Centurion won the following awards, presented at the America East Media Business and Technology Conference in Hershey, on April 3.
– General News, first place: “Pastor Aden Pays Yet Another Visit to the Newtown Campus” by Francis Klingenberg
– General News, honorable mention: “Bucks Student is Arrested for Making Threat” by Sarah Siock;
– Ongoing News Coverage, first place: “Parkland Shooting/March For Lives” by Hal Conte, Connor Donaghy, Matthew Aquino and Shannon Harrar;
– Ongoing News Coverage, second place: “The 2018 Midterms” by Sarah Siock, John Fey, Keri Marable and Jennifer Abele;
– Public Service/Enterprise Package, first place: “The #MeToo Movement” by Gabby Houck, Jillian Broskey, Jocelyn Pappas and Tyler Creighton;
– Feature Story, first place: “Philly Inquirer Columnist Mike Sielski on Twitter, Super Bowl & Fake News In New Age of Sports Journalism” by Julia Pacifico;
– Feature Story, honorable mention: “The Opioid Epidemic: It Starts With Us” by Gabby Houck;
– Personality Profile, first place: “A Sit Down with Bucks Instructor and Congressional Candidate Steve Bacher” by Gabby Houck;
– Feature Photo, first place: “Three Cooks, 70 Reserved Tables, 100 Degree Kitchens: How Angela Shellenberger Takes the Heat, Every Day” by Joe Roatche;
– News Photo, second place: “Pastor Aden Pays Yet Another Visit to the Newtown Campus” by Francis Klingenberg;
– Layout and Design, honorable mention: Gabby Houck, Shannon Harrar, Centurion Staff;
– Website, first place: Centurion Staff;
– Video Story, first place: “Animal Adoption Event” by Julia Pacifico;
– Video Story, second place: “Doylestown Hosts Women’s March” by Hal Conte;
– Video Story, honorable mention: “Bucks Men’s Basketball” by Macy Moors.
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