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Members of East Central Community College's newspaper staff display various awards pre– sented at the O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference held March 24 at historic Duling Hall in Jackson. Front row, from left, are Raychal Reed of Louisville; Ashley Moore, Meghan Mcin– tosh and Christina Nollie, all of Carthage; Jennifer Moore-Pope of Forest; and Stephanie Lunsford of Collinsville; and back row, are Gennie Phillips, adviser; Tyler Yates of Decatur; and Colby Harvey of Newton. {EC Photo) EC newspaper staffwins 10 awards at McDavid Journalism Conference East Central Community Col–

Competition, members of The Tom-Tomstaffearned the follow– ing awards. • Aflrst place firush for soph– omore Rachel Ramirez of Forest, Best General Interest Column. • TheTom-Tom staff was also honored with first place plaque for Best Front Page. • Sophomore Jennifer Moore– Pope of Forest was recognized with a second place award for Best Feature Story. • Sophomore Polly Vaughn of Decatur was recognized with a second place award for Best Gen– eral News Photograph. • The Tom-Tom staff also receiving second place honors for Best Miscellaneous Advertise– ment. • Freshman Raychal Reed of Louisville claimed a third place

prize in the Best Sports Feature Story Category. • TheTom-Tom staff also won third place honors for Best Lay– out & Design, Best Editorials and Best Single Advertisement. TheTom-Tom is a student-led newspaper representative of the student body of East Central Community College in Decatur. The staff is led by Ramirez, news editor; Brittany Lovem-King of

lege\ student newspaper, The Tom-1om, was among the top student newspaper<. in the state recognized during the 2011 O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference held March 24 at lustoric Duling Hall in Jackson. East Central students earned 10 awards in the Mississippi Press Association's Better News– paper Contest in the Community and Junior College Division. including second place in the general excellence award, the top award granted for student news– papers in the community college division for the state. The Tom-Tom also received two first place, three additional second place and four third place awards in the comrx:titwn. In the Better Newspaper

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Edinburg, design editor; and Christina Nollie of <;;artbage, BA DEMOCRAT assistant editor. ECCC Publica- lions Coordinator Gennie Phillips COUNTY TIMES of Forest serves as adviser.

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