WKU Student Newspaper
Wins Gold Crown Award

March 25, 2003

Bowling Green, Ky. - The College Heights Herald, Western Kentucky University's student newspaper, has again swept the two major national awards for college newspapers.

The Herald was one of six Gold Crown winners announced by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association on Saturday in New York City. Other winners were from Ball State University, Northwestern University, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Indiana University and Kansas State University.

Last fall, the Herald received its ninth national Pacemaker Award from Associated Collegiate Press. The awards are considered the Pulitzer Prizes for college newspapers. The Herald also won a Gold Crown award in 1999 and two in 2000.

Of the 1,749 CSPA members eligible, 1,550 magazines, newspapers and yearbooks entered the competition.

The papers were judged on writing/editing, design, content, concept, photography, art and graphics. The editors for the period judged were Ryan Clark and Brian Moore, both of Louisville. Clark is finishing a sports writing internship at The Orlando Sentinel and will be heading to The Washington Post for a summer internship. Moore will graduate in May and has accepted a reporting position at The Courier-Journal.

Several Herald staff members or graduates also were recognized as Gold Circle winners. The Gold Circle newspaper competition encompasses 30 individual categories.

Taylor Loyal, education reporter at the Daily News, placed second in general features and received a certificate of merit in news features.

Brandy Warren, a Louisville senior, placed second in in-depth news/feature story.

Crestwood senior Stephanie Gladney and Robyn Larsen, a graduate serving in the Peace Corps, placed third in sports page design.

Receiving certificates of merit were Moore and Louisville senior Joseph Lord, news writing; Kyle Tucker, a senior from Clarksville, Tenn., sports news; and Caroline Lynch, a December graduate from Louisville, opinion page design. The contest attracted more than 3,700 entries.

For more information, contact Bob Adams, Herald adviser, at (270) 745-6278. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.

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