2015

Members of the East Central Community College award-winning The Tom-Tom staff display some of the awards they received at the O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference held March 26 at the Mississippi Craft Center in Ridgeland. Shown are, front row, from left, Madison Barnett of Noxapater, editor; and Hannah May of Little Rock, design editor; and back row, Wil Johnson of Morton; Allison Johnson, opinions editor, and Macken'z Smith, cartoonist, both of Philadelphia; and ECCC Publications Coordinator Gennie Taylor of Forest. ECCC student newspaper staff receives top state awards

Interest Column for Madison Herrington, a sophomore from Union. • Second place in Design for Hannah May, a freshman from Little Rock and design editor. • Second place in Front Page for The Tom-Tom staff. • Third place in General

competition.

East Central Community College's student newspaper, The Tom-Tom, received 11 awards, including second place in General Excellence. the>. top award granted for student new-.papers, in the 2015 Mis– sissippi Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest Stu– dent Division for Community Colleges. The awards were presented at the annual O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference held March 26 at the Mississippi Craft Center in Ridgeland. The Tom-Tom received a total of three first place, four second place, and four third place awards in the annual

In the Better Newspaper Competition, members of The Tom-Tom staff earned the fol– lowing awards: • First place in General Interest Column for Allison Johnson, a sophomore from Philadelphia and The Tom– Tom opinions editor. • First place in Cartoon for Claire Griffin, a May 2014 graduate from Decatur • First place in Website for The Tom-Tom staff. • Second place in General Excellence-The Tom-Tom staff. • Second place in General

News Story for Madison Bar– nett, a sophomore from Noxap– ater and editor. • Third place in Editorials for Barnett. • Third place in Single Advertisement for The Tom– Tom staff. • Third place in Miscella– neous Advertisement for The Tom.. 'T'<'..., 'l·.~v ......, ----- - WINSTON COUNTY JOURNAL - -- CLARION-LEDGER ~~~~~~~~

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