{"id":2065,"date":"2015-11-07T14:27:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2015-11-07T14:27:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:27:43","slug":"acp-individual-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/acp-individual-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"ACP individual award winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Katrina Penaflor\r\nManaging Editor<\/pre>\n<p>The Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) announced the winners for the national Pacemaker and Individual Awards at the National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas, Oct. 31, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organization\u2019s website, ACP \u201cpromotes the standards and ethics of good journalism as accepted and practiced by print, broadcast and electronic media in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Journal\u2019s Editor-in-Chief, Conner Williams, was nominated for the individual awards under the \u201cStory of the Year\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>Sections in the category included \u201cNews,\u201d \u201cFeature,\u201d \u201cSports,\u201d \u201cEditorial\/Opinion,\u201d and \u201cDiversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/up-in-smoke\/\">\u201cUp in smoke: The ethical dilemmas of a convenience store clerk\u201d <\/a>was a top ten finalist for \u201cEditorial\/Opinion,\u201d receiving an honorable mention after the final judging.<\/p>\n<p>Rhys Finch, student media advisor, said, \u201cRegardless if a student receives first prize or an honorable mention, to be considered on the national level for your writing is exemplary. Honors such as these put not only the student in the national spotlight, but the campus publication as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top award for \u201cEditorial\/Opinion\u201d went to Leah Johnson, from the Indiana Daily Student, for her piece titled \u201cColor of conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 placement in his category puts him among the top ten writers in the country for editorial writing, an accomplishment that should not go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly proud to be advising Conner, who has proven himself to be a strong, and improving, writer as well as an ambitious Editor-in-Chief,\u201d said Finch.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal wishes Conner congratulations on his achievements in editorial writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) announced the winners for the national Pacemaker and Individual Awards at the National College Media Convention in Austin, Texas, Oct. 31, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}