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Staff Reports
Mar 12, 2021
ROME, Ga. â An award-winning feature co-written by a student from Doerun helped the Berry College student newspaper place third in the state for general excellence in its division at the 2020 Georgia College Press Association Better Newspaper Contest.
 The Campus Carrier recently won 13 awards for journalism excellence, according to a press release from Berry College. I am really excited that the Carrier is recognized as one of the best college newspapers in the state, said Taylor Corley, a junior from Denver, who serves as editor in chief of the newspaper. We do our best to serve the Berry community with accurate, meaningful and compelling coverage each week.
The staff of The Cluster, the independent student-run newspaper at Mercer University, won nine awards at the Georgia College Press Association Better Newspaper Contest Friday.
The Cluster participates in the contest each year. Its staff competes among the largest student newspapers in the state, including Georgia State University’s The Signal, the Georgia Institute of Technology’s The Technique and the University of Georgia’s Red & Black.
Editor-in-Chief Emily Rose Thorne, a senior, won first place in the Best News Article – Objective category for reporting on bullying that bisexual students face at Mercer and other Georgia schools.
Sports Editor Micah Johnston and Managing Editor Mary Helene Hall take a selfie wearing Mercer Cluster hats. (Image: Mary Helene Hall)