2024 Magazine Pacemakers
ACP names top student collegiate magazines
Prestigious competition recognizes 14 Pacemakers
Nov. 2, 2024
NEW ORLEANS — Honoring the nation’s best, the Associated College Press named 14 student magazines as winners of its prestigious Pacemaker during an awards ceremony at the the Fall National College Media Convention, in New Orleans.
“The Pacemaker is the association’s preeminent award,” executive director Laura Widmer said. “ACP is honored to recognize the best of the best.”
The prestigious Pacemaker recognizes overall excellence and distinguishes the top student media produced during a particular school year. The award started shortly after the association was founded in 1921 and is often regarded as the most-competitive, most-honored award in collegiate journalism.
In September, 31 magazines were named Pacemaker finalists. The finalists represented 15 states. California and Oregon set the pace with five finalists followed by Florida with four.
Magazines competed in feature/general audience and literary arts divisions. Magazines produced at four-year and two year institutions competed in separate categories.
Three judges, with extensive magazine-editing and advising experience, studied each entry discussing and analyzing its strengths and weaknesses.
Gary Lundgren, ACP associate director and coordinator of the Pacemaker competition, noted the quality of the winning student magazines rivals those produced by professionals.
“The verbal and visual storytelling in the winning magazines is incredible and robust long-form stories combined with shorter quick-reads to pace the reader through the pages of the feature magazines,” Lundgren said.
“And the creativity displayed in the literary arts magazines is incredible — the unique formats and creative designs make the magazines themselves a work of art,” he said.
2024 Fall Convention Awards
Fall 2024 Pacemakers
Broadcast
Innovation
Magazine
Multiplatform
Newspaper/Newsmagazine
2024 Individual Awards
New Orleans Best of Show
2024 Feature/General Audience Magazine Pacemakers
listed by state
Dig
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Editor-in-chief: Olivia Peay
Adviser: Robin Jones
Inside Fullerton
Fullerton College
Fullerton, California
Editors-in-chief: Mariana Ramos, Mikey Moran
Adviser: Jessica Langlois
El Sol
Southwestern College
Chula Vista, California
Editors-in-chief: Nicolette Monique Luna, Alexa Lima
Advisers: Max Branscomb, Kenneth Pagano
Distraction
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida
Editors-in-chief: Sal Puma, Lizzie Kristal
Adviser: Randy Stano
Ke Alaka’i
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
Laie, Hawaii
Editors-in-chief: Elijah Hadley, Manhattan Ethington Prien, Ranitea Teihoarii, Lisi Tiafau
Adviser: LeeAnn Lambert
Drake Mag
Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa
Editor-in-chief: Nate Eisenmann
Advisers: Jennifer Wilson, Jeff Inman, Neil Ward
Beaver’s Digest
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
Editors-in-chief: Emma Coke, Natalie Sharp
Advisers: Jennifer Moody
Flux
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Editor-in-chief: Johnny Media
Advisers: Charlie Deitz, Steven Asbury, Chris Pietsch
2024 Literary Arts Magazine Pacemakers
listed by state
The Auburn Circle
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
Editor-in-chief: Sara Amis
Adviser: Brit Bowen
Axis
Miami Dade College, North Campus
Miami, Florida
Editors-in-chief: Richemonde Israel, Bianca Jules
Advisers: Carmen Bucher, Eric Cornish, Kate Noonan
Phoenix
Valencia College
Orlando, Florida
Editors-in-chief: Mark Christmas, Paris Cumba, Annie Marion, Kim Snipes
Advisers: Meg Curtiss, Jackie Zuromski
Parnassus
Northern Essex Community College
Haverhill, Massachusetts
Adviser: Patrick Lochelt
The Peel Review
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina
Editor-in-chief: Brittany Helms
Adviser: Allison Bennett Dyche
Hispanic Culture Review
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
Editor-in-chief: Katty Becerra De Melo
Advisers: Carla Burns, Jason Hartsel