Mount Mary University
Press Release

Student journalists named finalists for two national awards

 

By - Oct 3rd, 2017 03:18 pm

MILWAUKEE, WI. (October 3, 2017) – Arches, Mount Mary’s student-produced magazine, has been named a finalist for two national awards by the Associate Collegiate Press, faculty advisor and English department chair Laura Otto announced today.

The two pieces are:

Otto stressed the significance of these awards for a small school such as Mount Mary, as students compete against nominees from established journalism programs from across the country.

“For the national awards, schools are not broken up into categories of school size – that means that we are competing with large state schools from across the country that have hundreds of students and dozens of faculty,” Otto said.

Mount Mary’s program has two faculty advisers, Otto and Linda Barrington, and approximately 25 students on staff. Students publish four issues of the Arches magazine each year, and maintain the award-winning companion website, http://archesnews.com.

The awards will be given out at the ACP National College Media Convention, Oct. 25-29, in Dallas.

“We truly do have one of the best journalism programs in the state – and the nation,” Otto said. “For a small school that doesn’t even have a formal journalism major, this is quite a feat.”

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