Honors for Round Up, Lariat the latest in a series for Baylor student publications

As a proud Baylor journalism graduate, I love to share news like this… In mid-March, the Baylor Round Up (yearbook) was announced as a finalist for the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) Pacemaker award, considered by many to be the highest honor in student journalism. Two weeks later, The Baylor Lariat was named the Collegiate Newspaper of the Year by the Associated Press Managing Editors of Texas.

Such honors are nothing new for Baylor journalism students. During the 2009 calendar year, Baylor’s student publications earned 80 staff and individual honors. That list covers the Lariat, Round Up and Focus magazine and includes national honors such as a fifth-place finish for the Lariat in the ACP’s Best of Show competition for daily broadsheets, a third-place showing for then sophomore photographer Jordan Wilson in the ACP’s Photo Excellence Awards, and a fifth-place honor for then junior Sommer Ingram in the Hearst Journalism Awards’ editorial writing competition. 2010 has opened with more of the same, starting with the Round-Up and Lariat honors mentioned earlier and continuing with more than 50 other honors from the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association.

Sic ’em, Baylor journalists!