{"id":8462,"date":"2020-04-14T20:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2020-05-13T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:00:33","slug":"hear-that-rctc-echo-named-best-college-paper-for-2nd-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/hear-that-rctc-echo-named-best-college-paper-for-2nd-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear that? RCTC Echo named best college paper for 2nd straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nathan Hoover and Ilhan Raage represented The Echo on Jan. 30 at the 2020 Minnesota Newspaper Association annual awards ceremony, where The Echo placed first in General Excellence ahead of four-year university newspapers.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the program notes, judges wrote, \u201cExcellent newspaper! Full of ads, good editorial page, in depth, quality news coverage. Layout is clean and easy to read, nice use of photos and color\u201d<\/p>\n

The Echo\u2019s first-place finish in General Excellence is a noteworthy achievement because it competes against student newspapers from four-year universities throughout Minnesota.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m extremely honored that we received this award,\u201d said Ilhan Raage, who served as The Echo\u2019s editor in chief during the 2018-2019 school year before transferring the University of Minnesota. \u201cWorking with everybody on the staff at The Echo was a rewarding experience beyond measure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three Echo staff members placed in individual categories.<\/p>\n

Hawa Sheikh-Adam, now a student at Marymount University in Virginia, placed second for arts and entertainment reporting for her story about the \u201cWithin Without\u201d exhibition by artist Jennifer Onofrio Fornes. Judges said \u201c\u2018Within Without\u2019 would be fascinating to see in person. The story is very deserving of this award.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo Editor Nathan Hoover placed second for Feature Photo Story. Judges said his photograph of RCTC Band Director Michael Mangan leading students during rehearsal captured \u201cgood facial expressions of the teacher and students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breanna Shen, now a student at the University of Texas at Dallas, placed third in column writing. About Shen\u2019s column headlined \u201cIvy League doesn\u2019t guarantee success,\u201d judges wrote that \u201cthe writer made her case that the prestige of a college doesn\u2019t determine the success of student attending it. She supplied several examples of areas RCTC students excel to support her argument advocating that community college is valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the fourth consecutive year that The Echo placed in general excellence in the MNA\u2019s Better Newspaper Contest. It placed first in 2019, second in 2018 and third in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe General Excellence award confirmed what I already knew,\u201d said Dwight Boyum, who served as faculty adviser during the 2018-2019 school year. \u201cWe had a talented staff committed to serving their campus and community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The awards were presented Jan. 30 at the Minnesota Newspaper Association\u2019s annual ceremony at Minneapolis Marriott Northwest in Brooklyn Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the program notes, judges wrote, \u201cExcellent newspaper! Full of ads, good editorial page, in depth, quality news coverage. Layout is clean and easy to read, nice use of photos and color\u201d The Echo\u2019s first-place finish in General Excellence is a noteworthy achievement because it competes against student newspapers from four-year universities throughout Minnesota. \u201cI\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[51,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462","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\/1012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}