{"id":3310,"date":"2018-02-20T11:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2025-02-13T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:24:34","slug":"echo-wins-five-awards-in-state-journalism-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/echo-wins-five-awards-in-state-journalism-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo wins five awards in state journalism contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>Echo staff report<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11498\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11498\" class=\"wp-image-11498 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Seth-Boyum-RCTC.jpg\" alt=\"Seth Boyum\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Seth-Boyum-RCTC.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Seth-Boyum-RCTC-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Boyum<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">BLOOMINGTON \u2013 The Rochester Community and Technical College Echo won five awards in the collegiate division of the Minnesota Newspaper Association\u2019s Better Newspaper Contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Echo placed second in general excellence, a noteworthy achievement because it competes against student newspapers from four-year universities throughout Minnesota. Last year, The Echo placed third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cWe only had two students returning from the previous year, so this award is especially gratifying,\u201d said Echo adviser Dwight Boyum. \u201cThe staff coalesced quickly and put out some impressive papers throughout the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11774\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11774\" class=\"wp-image-11774 \" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Zachary-Deppa-1-853x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Zachary Deppa\" width=\"178\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Zachary-Deppa-1-853x1280.jpg 853w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Zachary-Deppa-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Zachary-Deppa-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Zachary-Deppa-1.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zachary Deppa<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">Graphics Manager Seth Boyum placed first in Editorial Writing for an opinion headlined \u201cNation\u2019s health depends on free press.\u201d He also placed second for the editorial \u201cChoosing third-party candidate isn\u2019t throwing away your vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Sports Editor Zachary Deppa placed first in Sports Story for a feature headlined \u201cGrateful for a second chance.\u201d The story profiled RCTC volleyball player Jennifer Nelson and her recovery from a near-fatal traffic accident.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11362 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lydia-Smith-headshot-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Smith\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lydia-Smith-headshot-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lydia-Smith-headshot-1-853x1280.jpg 853w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lydia-Smith-headshot-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lydia-Smith-headshot-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lydia-Smith-headshot-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Lydia-Smith-headshot-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Photo Editor Lydia Smith placed third in Photo Story for a full-page layout headlined \u201cFlapdoodles is your favorite place,\u201d where she documented a day at a Rochester ice cream shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The students received their awards Jan. 25 at the Minnesota Newspaper Association\u2019s annual convention at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Bloomington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rochester Community and Technical College Echo won five awards in the collegiate division of the Minnesota Newspaper Association&#8217;s Better Newspaper Contest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}