Yellow Jacket (newspaper)
| Student produced since 1924 | |
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The Yellow Jacket is the student newspaper for
The Yellow Jacket is a member of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association and is affiliated with the Waynesburg University student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Awards and nominations
The student staff of the Yellow Jacket has been recognized with over three dozen awards by the Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence competition and the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. In addition to individual or team awards, the newspaper has been recognized by SPJ with the Best All-Around Non-Daily Newspaper award in Region 4 twice (2004 and 2016) and a regional finalist in 2003, 2013, and 2014.[4][5][6][7] In 2016, a team of student writers—Kimmi Baston, Anthony Conn, Teghan Simonton, and Mattie Winowitch—were named by SPJ as the National Winner in the In-Depth Reporting Category[8] for a series on opioid abuse in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
References
- ^ "Department of Communication". waynesburg.edu. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "ISSUU: Yellow Jacket". Issuu.com.
- ^ "The Yellow Jacket". Yellow Jacket. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "Student newspaper named regional winner". waynesburg.edu. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "Region 4 Mark of Excellence Awards winners announced in Athens, Ohio". www.spj.org. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "Yellow Jacket lauded with SPJ and PNA awards". waynesburg.edu. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "Region 4 Mark of Excellence Awards winners announced in Detroit - Society of Professional Journalists". www.spj.org. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
- ^ "Mark of Excellence Awards - Society of Professional Journalists". www.spj.org. Retrieved 2017-10-12.