Bucks County Courier Times
The Centurion, the student newspaper of Bucks County Community College, won a record 17 awards in the statewide Keystone Media contest for 2021, despite the fact that its staffers had to produce the paper from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Competing in the two-year college division, students won awards for articles and news videos on everything from student government elections and a shooting in a Bucks County park, to the pandemic and the presidential election. The contest is run by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association.
Journalism Professor Tony Rogers, the Centurion’s faculty advisor, said winning 17 awards was a terrific accomplishment in itself. But the awards, for work done in the spring and fall of 2020, mean even more this year.
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Bucks County Community College’s Centurion student newspaper, headed by current editor-in-chief Alyssa Moore (left) of Chalfont and her predecessor Sarah Siock of Doylestown, has won a record 17 awards from the Keystone Media contest. (Centurion/Bucks County Community College)
NEWTOWN, PA The student newspaper of Bucks County Community College took home a record 17 awards in the statewide 2021 Keystone Media Contest.
The Centurion, which competes in the two-year college division, has won more than 130 awards since 2010 in the contest run by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association.
Students won awards for articles and news videos for its coverage of student government elections, a fatal shooting at Nockamixon State Park, the COVID-19 pandemic and the presidential election.