All awards on this page are publications from 2008 to the present won at the Black College Communication Association Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards and the NC College Media Association competition. The BCCA annually conducts the Excellence in Journalism competition to encourage and recognize excellence among HBCU student journalists and newspapers. The contest is open to BCCA member publications. Each member publication is encouraged to contribute its best journalistic work featured in HBCU publications. The NCCMA is based in the offices of the Scholastic Media Association at UNC-Chapel Hill. The association offers an annual statewide media contest and an annual conference on a different college campus in the state each year.

BEST OF SHOW- ONLINE NEWS Third Place www.thenewsargus.com

SPORTS WRITING Honorable Mention LaTasha Miles “William Hayes gives back to Ram football team”

NEWS WRITING Third Place Tiffany Gibson “Alumni give Chancellor Reaves ‘failing grades’”

DESIGN Honorable Mention Brandon Coley “Offense/Defense”

PHOTOGRAPHY Honorable Mention Corderius Cowans “9/11 vigil on campus”

BEST NEWS SERIES, INVESTIGATIVE OR IN-DEPTH STORY Third Place Tiffany Gibson “Housing lottery a gamble some unwilling to take”

BEST NEWS COVERAGE First Place Marcus Cunningham ROTC Coverage

BEST INFORMATIONAL GRAPHIC OR NEWS/ART ILLUSTRATION Third Place Brandon Coley, graphics artist LaTasha Miles, content Homecoming football graphic (Published in 2009)

Honorable Mention Brandon Coley “Don’t open that door” Obama on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy

BEST SPOT NEWS STORY Second Place Natalie Davis “Video Camera Stolen from Mass Comm Department”

BEST NEWS SERIES, INVESTIGATION OR IN-DEPTH STORY Third Place The News Argus

BEST EDITORIAL Third Place The News Argus

BEST EDITORIAL CARTOON First Place Brandon Coley

BEST EDITORIAL/OPINION SECTIONS Third Place The News Argus (Tie with the Gramblinite, Grambling State University)

BEST INFORMATIONAL GRAPHIC OR NEWS ILLUSTRATION First Place Brandon Coley, online producer and graphics editor Jaye Cole, copy desk chief 2010 Homecoming Issue

BEST ONLINE AUDIO STORY First Place Brandon Coley, online producer and graphics editor Jordan Howse, editor-in-chief “Q&A with Chancellor Reaves”

BEST ONLINE SITE Third Place The News Argus

BEST STUDENT NEWSPAPER (NON-REGULAR PRODUCTION, ONCE WEEKLY OR LESS) First Place The News Argus (Published in 2010)

BEST OF SHOW - ONLINE NEWS Third Place www.thenewsargus.com

OPINION WRITING Second Place Jaye Cole “Remembering the Cole on Columbus Day”

DESIGN Honorable Mention Brandon Coley “The Ram-Factor”