WKU Student Newspaper
Honored By National Group
September 16, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - For the first time ever, Western Kentucky University's student newspaper has been recognized as the nation's best by the Society of Professional Journalists.
The College Heights Herald received the 2002 Mark of Excellence national award for Best All-Around Non-Daily Student Newspaper (published two to four times a week). Awards were presented last weekend at the SPJ national convention in Tampa, Fla.
"We're very excited to win the SPJ award," said Bob Adams, Herald adviser. "The Herald has been a finalist several times in the Mark of Excellence competition, but this is the first time we've won."
Editors for the spring and fall semesters of 2002 were Brian Moore and Caroline Lynch. Both are WKU graduates from Louisville and are reporters for The Courier-Journal.
Graduate Rick Mach of Sterling, Va., received a first-place Mark of Excellence award for photo illustration. Mach is a photographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The SPJ award adds to the Herald's tradition of national recognition. Since 1981, the Herald has won nine national Pacemakers from the Associated Collegiate Press and is a finalist again this year. Since 1999, the paper has won four Gold Crown awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
For more information, contact Bob Adams 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.
