ACP announces winners
in fall Clips & Clicks contest

Jan. 20, 2022

Congratulations to the winners of the Clips & Clicks contest for the 2021 fall semester — and to the ACP-member student media outlets competing for this year’s Sweepstakes.

The competition, open to all ACP members, honors current work among student journalists, and the fall-semester winners feature work produced from Aug. 1-Dec. 17, 2021.

The 2022 spring-semester emcompasses work produced from Dec. 18, 2021-May 27, 2022. The BetterBNC submission site will open in February with a contest deadline of May 27, 2022.

There were approximately 300 submissions in the fall competition, representing 22 ACP-member student media outlets from 18 colleges and universities. A single entry in Broadcast: Commentary category will compete in the spring contest. 

“The judges consistently said they were very impressed with the quality of the entries submitted,” associate director Gary Lundgren said. 

Judges were collegiate professors, collegiate student media advisers and professional journalists.

The number of winners in each category was determined by the judges based on the quantity and quality of the entries. When calculating Sweepstakes, the following points are assigned:

Fall 2021 leaders

Here are the top 12 winners going into the spring competition.

For 2021-22, rankings are by ACP-member student media outlets, not by colleges and universities. Syracuse University has three student media outlets in the top 12, and the University of Miami has two.

When spring results are added in June, we’ll announce the winner of our Clips & Clicks Sweepstakes trophy.

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Second
“Will booster shots be available at CPP?”
Jolie Rodriguez
The Poly Post
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, California

Third
“Sac State AAPI students and faculty call for more resources, representation”
Chrissy Martinez
The State Hornet
Sacramento State University
Sacramento, California

Second
“Syracuse City Ballet Returns for Nutcracker 2021”
Louise Rath, Les Rose
NCC News
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

Third
“The return of ASI’s Flick N’ Float”
Jolie Rodriguez
The Poly Post
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, California

Second
“Name, Image, Likeness”
Calvin Christoforo
NCC News
Syracuse University
Syracuse”New York

Third
“Family ties: Sac State football welcomes five sets of brothers to the team”
Brandon Bailey
The State Hornet
Sacramento State University
Sacramento, California

Second
“Roll Tears Roll”
Cori Eckert
The Battalion
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

Third
“It feels very defeating”
Lawrence Kreymer, Nika Schoonover, Nate Burleyson
The DePaulia
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

Second
“Next man up”
Lawrence Kreymer, Nate Burleyson
The DePaulia
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

Third
“RVA Fashion Week”
Gabi Wood
The Commonwealth Times
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Second
“Quarantined Creatives”
Emily Trinh, Jasmine Castillo, Aspen Hasse
Etc. Magazine
City College of San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Third
The November Issue
Callen Moore
Jerk
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

Second
“One Breath”
Sydney Burnett
Distraction
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

Third
“Out of Place”
Lilly Chidlaw-Mayen, Callen Moore
Jerk
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

Second
“The Rush to Family”
Kylie Sledge, Hattie Smith
Aggieland
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

Third
“Homecoming Opening”
Carolina Camus
Ibis
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

Second
“Huntington Beach Oil Spill”
Jon Putman
The Corsair
Santa Monica College
Santa Monica, California

Third
“Candlelight vigil kicks off Safe Driving Week”
Gavin Liddell
The NewsHouse
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

Fourth
“Scenes from the Great New York State Fair”
Zisheng Huang
The NewsHouse
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

Fifth
“Taking a stand”
Joey Ward
Aggieland
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

Second
“Filipino composer makes dreams a reality”
Paige Johnson
The Utah Statesman
Utah State University
Logan, Utah

Third
“The Superhero of the year: COVID-19 Vaccination”
Sukhmani Kaur
The Daily Pennsylvanian
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fourth
“One Breath”
Sydney Burnett
Distraction
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

Fifth
“Bulldogs”
Kathryn Skeean
The Red & Black
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

Second
“Sweep the Legs”
Jared Lennon
Ibis
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

Third
“Backstroke”
Jacob Walton
The Reflector
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

Fourth
“Ali Patberg celebrates”
Kamaron Farver
Indiana Daily Student
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Fifth
“Flying High”
Isaiah Vazquez
The NewsHouse
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York

Second
“UGA professor resigns mid-class after student refuses to wear mask”
Dania Kalaji
The Red & Black
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

Third
“Fentanyl-laced counterfeits of prescription pills make non-prescribed pills a life-or-death gamble”
Phyllis Cha
Indiana Daily Student
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Fourth
“Color barriers of sexual healthcare”
Kathryn Miller
The Battalion
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

Fifth
“Et tu, brew?”
Caroline Wilburn
The Battalion
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

Second
“Stop being afraid: Black faculty urge Sac State to call out campus racism”
Keyshawn Davis, Emma Hall, Dominique Williams
The State Hornet
Sacramento State University
Sacramento, California

Third
“Never-ending’: UGA students seek mental health support during in-person semester”
Caitlin Farmer
The Red & Black
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

Fourth
“Eleanor Lehmann believes she was date rape drugged. But she can’t prove it.”
Emma Uber
Indiana Daily Student
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Fifth
“12th Man rewritten”
Ryan Faulkner
The Battalion
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

Second
“Next man up:
Tony Stubblefield is ready to carve out his own DePaul path”
Lawrence Kreymer
The DePaulia
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

Third
“Former women’s basketball athlete alleges unfair treatment from program”
Iman Mekonen, Sarah Elson
The Commonwealth Times
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Fourth
“Freshman Ava Toone brings world-class experience to LMU”
Ellie Kinney
The Los Angeles Loyolan
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California

Fifth
“Fifth-year and gap-year student-athletes put graduation on hold for one more season”
Sophia Thé
The Occidental
Occidental College
Los Angeles, California

Second
“Superheroes were always woke, you just did not pay attention”
Joshua Hernandez
The Poly Post
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, California

Third
“Testimonial: Sac State needs to recognize the visibility of Native students on campus”
Emma Hall
The State Hornet
Sacramento State University
Sacramento, California