WKU Student Newspaper Wins
10th National Pacemaker
November 10, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - The College Heights Herald, Western Kentucky University's student newspaper, received its 10th national Pacemaker award Saturday.
The Herald, which also received Pacemakers in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2002, was honored during the National College Media Convention in Dallas.
The Pacemaker awards, co-sponsored by the Associated Collegiate Press and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, are considered to be the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism. The Herald competes against other non-daily student newspapers.
Editors for the fall 2002 and spring 2003 semesters were Caroline Lynch and Erica Walsh. Lynch is a reporter for the Courier-Journal, while Walsh is a reporter for the News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown.
The Herald also took fourth place in Best in Show for non-daily broadsheet papers.
The Talisman yearbook received second place in Best in Show for yearbooks with fewer than 300 pages. The 2003 Talisman was Western's first yearbook in six years.
Eight Herald staff members also received awards in ACP competition. They are:
Brett Marshall, a Bowling Green senior, honorable mention for news picture.
Henrik Edsenius, a senior from West Des Moines, Iowa, third place for feature picture.
Brian Leddy, a Bowling Green senior, first place for sports picture.
Shannon Guthrie, a Bowling Green senior, third place for picture story.
Steven King, a senior from Pelham, Ala., honorable mention for news page design.
Matt Rountree, an Elizabethtown graduate student, third place for display advertising.
Michael Reuter, a Bowling Green senior; John Tebault, a May graduate; and Rountree, second place for house ad.
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