2008 Woodie Awards
Congratulations to Sidelines for recognition at journalism conference
Issue date: 2/25/08 Section: Opinions
In lieu of an editorial board, I decided to write a short piece completely and shamelessly promoting our newspaper.
This past weekend, three editors, our advisor and I attended the Southeast Journalism Conference in Oxford, Miss.
Despite the ill-conceived notions of a "Deliverance" themed town, the trip was quite nice, the food amazing and the best part, Sidelines won four awards.
Three of the four categories were in the "Best of South" competition. Sidelines placed for editorial writing, graphic design and feature writing. The second category was the on-site competition, in which we placed for news writing.
Congratulations to the incredibly hardworking staff of the paper. For the long hours, lack of sleep and true dedication to the betterment of your craft, none deserve these honors more than my devoted staff.
I especially want to congratulate Steven Chappell, our advisor. With the 2009 SEJC being held at Belmont University, Steven was elected to be the vice president for the conference.
While at the conference, we had a chance to meet some of our neighborhood friends from Belmont, Tennessee Tech University and University of Memphis. Even Union University was present, despite the devastating tornado damage suffered by their campus.
The most interesting part of meeting our peers was finding out that we share the same problems with the love we call college journalism.
It seems that a few dedicated students are the ones to carry the student newspaper and we decided that it isn't fair. It isn't fair to ask a few students to carry the burden of thousands.
We also thought of ideas to get students involved. Instead of ripping a copy of the newspaper to shreds in a mass media class, then throwing away the critique while walking out the door, come and drop off the critique to Sidelines.
If we don't know what's wrong, we can't fix it. And while we spend a good 10 plus hours every Wednesday and Sunday in the office in addition to countless hours outside production, we cannot always catch everything.
But despite the errors that unfortunately creep into the paper, we try. And our effort paid off this weekend. Congratulations Sidelines and your staff for all your accomplishments.
This past weekend, three editors, our advisor and I attended the Southeast Journalism Conference in Oxford, Miss.
Despite the ill-conceived notions of a "Deliverance" themed town, the trip was quite nice, the food amazing and the best part, Sidelines won four awards.
Three of the four categories were in the "Best of South" competition. Sidelines placed for editorial writing, graphic design and feature writing. The second category was the on-site competition, in which we placed for news writing.
Congratulations to the incredibly hardworking staff of the paper. For the long hours, lack of sleep and true dedication to the betterment of your craft, none deserve these honors more than my devoted staff.
I especially want to congratulate Steven Chappell, our advisor. With the 2009 SEJC being held at Belmont University, Steven was elected to be the vice president for the conference.
While at the conference, we had a chance to meet some of our neighborhood friends from Belmont, Tennessee Tech University and University of Memphis. Even Union University was present, despite the devastating tornado damage suffered by their campus.
The most interesting part of meeting our peers was finding out that we share the same problems with the love we call college journalism.
It seems that a few dedicated students are the ones to carry the student newspaper and we decided that it isn't fair. It isn't fair to ask a few students to carry the burden of thousands.
We also thought of ideas to get students involved. Instead of ripping a copy of the newspaper to shreds in a mass media class, then throwing away the critique while walking out the door, come and drop off the critique to Sidelines.
If we don't know what's wrong, we can't fix it. And while we spend a good 10 plus hours every Wednesday and Sunday in the office in addition to countless hours outside production, we cannot always catch everything.
But despite the errors that unfortunately creep into the paper, we try. And our effort paid off this weekend. Congratulations Sidelines and your staff for all your accomplishments.
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Jodi
posted 2/25/08 @ 3:43 PM CST
Congratulations on a job well done, AS ALWAYS. I commend you for the honest approach I think I read in your articles, even tho I don't always agree. I enjoy reading all that is going on @ MTSU and trust your reporting to keep me informed. (Continued…)
Anon
posted 2/26/08 @ 10:25 PM CST
As a Journalism student I think that Sidelines needs an new editior, that knows what they are doing, and came do some research!
No way!
posted 2/27/08 @ 12:20 AM CST
As a human being, I think that Anon needs some language classes, so that his/her "criticisms" will actually come off as intelligent, rather than embarrassing. (Continued…)
Georgy Lukacs
posted 2/27/08 @ 8:25 AM CST
Anon: Once again your spewing garbage. Talking about things you know nothing about. Andy is a great editor.
Here is a little editing for your comment Anon:
Journalism student wouldn't be capitalized in your sentence. (Continued…)
No way!
posted 2/27/08 @ 1:03 PM CST
"As a Journalism student I think that Sidelines needs an new editior, that knows what they are doing, and came do some research!"
In addition to the above corrections, it would be a new editor who (not that, and no comma) knows what they are doing, and can (not came) do some research (whatever that even means). (Continued…)
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