Knight News Wins Major Awards

The many improvements evident the past two years in the Knight News have been recognized in a most significant way: the paper garnered two awards at October’s National College Media convention in Washington, D.C.

In addition to being named one of 20 finalists among some 250 college publications competing for the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award—the most prestigious award in American college journalism—the Knight News also walked away with the award for Best of Show.

These awards are all the more impressive, explains Knight News editor-in-chief Steven Appel, because this is the first time QC’s biweekly campus newspaper has entered the competition. Additionally, he notes, “The Pacemaker Award has been given out since 1927, and this is the first time in CUNY history that any school has placed as a finalist or taken Best of Show.”

Adding further luster to the achievement is the fact that the award selections are made by professional journalists working at a newspaper in the host city. In this instance, the judges were from one of the nation’s premier dailies, the Washington Post.

The criteria for judging the Pacemaker Award include coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth reporting, design, photography, art, and graphics