Cal Poly Humboldt’s student-run bilingual newspaper El Leñador and its staff won a number of awards, including the “People’s Choice” award in Best of Show,.
Humboldt State University s
El Leñador newspaper was awarded the Best All-Around Student Newspaper by the Society of Professional Journalists of Northern California at the 2020 Mark of Excellence regional awards. “Winning this award means that people, even outside of this community, recognize the important work that our team puts into producing
El Leñador,” said Nancy Garcia, one of three
El Leñador editors-in-chief. “That s a really good feeling because we work hard.
El Leñador was founded in 2013 after students majoring in journalism and Spanish came together to create the school s first bilingual newspaper, the only newspaper in Humboldt County that prints news stories in Spanish. Since then,