Our Voice
The Colonnade went to Macon last week for the annual Georgia College Press Association awards, where we competed against many of the finest student newspapers in the state for a variety of different awards.
Well, we were waiting on tenterhooks for the announcement of the awards, and after several pulse-pounding minutes the results were revealed. Well, there’s no way to say this without sounding just a little egotistical – we rock.
The Colonnade took home nine awards, including the much-coveted General Excellence award. In addition, The Colonnade won General Advertising Excellence, Best Campus Community Service in Sports, Best Campus Community Service in Editorial Excellence, placed second in Best Campus Community Service in Features and placed third in General Photography Excellence.
Several individuals from The Colonnade won individual awards as well. Photo Editor Erin Gish won third place in Best Photography in News. Sports Editor Corey Dickstein won third place in Best Sports Story. Recent graduate Sarah Ver Steeg won first place in Excellence in Investigative Reporting for an article about cutting as a form of stress relief.
So The Colonnade would like to thank all the members of the editorial staff for their hard work. Of course, we’d get nowhere without the writers, photographers, ad sales reps and P.R. personnel who keep us running from week to week. So once again, thanks very much to allTthe Colonnade staff.
But enough about us. We owe a giant thank you to everyone else who has contributed to our success.
We would like to thank all of our advertisers for placing their faith and their business with us. Without them we would not be able to afford to produce such a quality publication.
We owe a giant thank you to the administration of GCSU for allowing us the freedom they do and for always being willing to talk when we come calling. They also do a wonderful job corresponding with us so we are sure to cover the most important issues affecting the students.
And of course, who would we be without the students who constantly supply us with story ideas, suggestions and other criticisms that serve to make our paper the best it can be. We would also like to thank everyone for always being willing to speak to our reporters and to let your pictures run on our pages.
Finally, we would like to thank everyone for reading us every week. Our readers are the reason we do the job we do, and you make it all worthwhile.
Thanks so much everybody.
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Feb 8 2008. Filed under Opinion, Our Voice.
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