Pepperdine Graphic Media left a student media convention in Chicago Sunday night with a Magazine Pacemaker, considered the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism. Currents Magazine won in the Features category, which was judged by The Atlantic and presented by the Associated Collegiate Press.
Eighteen PGM staff members and advisers Elizabeth Smith and Courtenay Stallings traveled to the five-day annual National College Media Convention. Associated Collegiate Press’ Pacemaker awards have recognized student media excellence since 1927. This is Currents Magazine’s first Pacemaker.
The 91st annual convention hosted over 2,000 college journalists and their advisers from across the United States. ACP and the College Media Association prepared nearly 400 seminars and lectures covering college newsrooms and media internships and jobs.
Keynote sessions featured how to improve journalistic skills and the professor and students behind Northwestern University’s Medill Innocence Project, an investigative journalism class dedicated to investigating questionable criminal convictions.
This was also the first time the ACP/CMA convention had a mobile app. The convention featured sessions and special events by schedule, speakers, map and most notably, Twitter.