The Daily Barometer: Best Student Newspaper in Northwest Region

The newsroom at Oregon State University’s daily newspaper, The Barometer is celebrating numerous accolades from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).  The society’s Northwest region awarded OSU’s Barometer with the top award during the annual conference in Tacoma, WA on March 31^st.  The Barometer was award with the highest honor, best student newspaper in the five-state area.  The awards didn’t stop there.  The newspaper also received the following Mark of Excellence awards:

First place, “Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper” 4-year college/university
First place, “Sports Column Writing”, 4-year college/university, Jesse Severson writer
First place, “Breaking News Reporting” 4-year college/university, Kristin Pugmire writer
Second place, “General News Photography” 4 year college/university, Vinay Bikkina photographer
Second place, “Sports Column Writing” 4-year college/university, Grady Garrett writer
Second place, “Sports Writing” 4-year college/university, Grady Garrett writer

This is not the first time The Daily Barometer has been recognized by the Society.  SPJ honored The Barometer as the best daily student newspaper in the nation in 2001, and tied for second place in 2002.  The 2012 first place region award winners will go on to the national Society of Professional Journalists competition on September 20-22, 2012 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  We wish them luck during the upcoming competitions!

To learn more about OSU’s student media: KBVR-TV, KBVR-FM, Prism Magazine, Beaver Yearbook and The Daily Barometer newspaper click here.

Thanks for reading…CYN

Over the last week and a half or so the Oregon State Media Department has been hosting 18 high school students in conjunction with the Oregonian Newspaper for the Minority Journalism Camp.

From the Oregonian Teen Blog:

The Oregonian and Oregon State University have been conducting the Minority Journalism Camp on the college campus this week. The camp involves weeklong instruction as well as an opportunity to publish as working journalists.

The 18 students this year will create the usual newspaper, but this year they also went digital, creating this blog including posts, video and photos to chronicle their experiences.

I have been keeping up to date with the happenings at the camp through the Journalism Camp 2008 Blog. If you haven’t had a chance to, read through it. There are some touching, humorous and personal stories that the students and counselors have posted; also, wonderful multimedia stories about the Corvallis and OSU Community. My personal favorite is the coverage of the Corvallis music scene by Kerina Blanchard and Annika Wolters.

Great work, team! I hope to be reading you all very soon!! If we here at the blog can get a PDF copy of the PRIDE (the newspaper the students produced) we will be happy to post it here.

-jm