Alamo Community Colleges News & Events

SAC's Student Newspaper Wins Honors

For Immediate Release
May 29, 2007
Contact: John Hammond, Director of Public Relations, San Antonio College
210/733-2147
jhammond@accd.edu

The Ranger student newspaper at San Antonio College won several awards in recent competitions, including being selected as the Best Non-Daily College Newspaper of the Year in Texas in the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors competition at their annual convention in San Antonio.

"This was a very competitive category, and The Ranger does the most things best," said the contest judge Mac McKerral, Coordinator for News-Editorial in the School of Journalism and Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University. Student editors during the contest period were Kristina Lindberg and Cesar G. Rodriguez.

In the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association competition against both two- and four-year college publications, The Ranger won First Place for "Recovering Lives," a collection of stories reported in East Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi four months after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Students also won 10 individual awards.

At the Region 8 convention of the Society of Professional Journalists recognizing excellence in journalism among colleges and universities in Texas and Oklahoma, The Ranger won Second Place for Best All-Around Non-Daily Student Newspaper published fewer than four times a week and Second Place in the Best Affiliated Web Site Category for http://www.theranger.org.

For more information, contact Marianne Odom, Chairperson of Journalism/Photography, at 733-2870.