{"id":27858,"date":"2025-10-18T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/?p=27858"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:28:59","slug":"2025-innovation-pacemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/2025\/10\/18\/2025-innovation-pacemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Innovation Pacemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ACP Pacemaker honors innovation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Student media operations recognized for forward thinking; five earn Pacemakers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Honoring the nation\u2019s best, the Associated College Press named five student media operations winners of its prestigious Pacemaker during an awards ceremony at the Fall National College Media Convention<\/strong><\/a> in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Pacemaker is the association\u2019s preeminent award,\u201d executive director Laura Widmer said. \u201cACP is honored to recognize the best of the best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, seven Pacemaker finalists <\/a>were named. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Innovation Pacemaker is designed to encourage out-of-the-box thinking and reward student media for the courage to take chances to improve service to their customers, readers and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCollegiate student media is rapidly changing and those programs that don\u2019t generate new revenue streams and innovative ways to deliver content to their readers will struggle to survive,\u201d associate director Gary Lundgren said. \u201cPrint is now just one component \u2014 there is far more to a successful student media program than publishing the campus newspaper.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leadership, coverage, content delivery, marketing, business, community, press freedom and partnerships are among the areas where innovation is encouraged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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MediaFest25 awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fall 2025 Pacemakers<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Broadcast<\/a>
Innovation
<\/a>Magazine<\/a>
Multiplatform
<\/a>Newspaper\/Newsmagazine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 Individual Awards<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Story of the Year
<\/a>Reporter of the Year
<\/a>Multimedia Story of the Year
<\/a>Design of the Year
<\/a>Photo of the Year
<\/a>Cartoon of the Year
<\/a>Broadcast Story of the Year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best of Show<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Individual Recognition
Staff Recognition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Beach TV News<\/a>
California State University, Long Beach
Student leaders: Tanisha Bucad, James Grech, Carlos Raya, Jerry Reynoso, Linsey Towles
Adviser: Jesus Ayala<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Collegian<\/a>
San Joaquin Delta College (CA)
Student leaders: Jelissa King, Andrea Rivera
Advisers: Adriana Brogger, Tara Cuslidge-Staiano, Leo Marquez, Matthew Wilson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daily Bruin<\/a>
University of California, Los Angeles
Student leaders: Zimo Li, Shiv Patel, Dylan Winward
Advisers: Doria Deen, Abigail Goldman, Jose Hernandez<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Red Line Project<\/a>
University of Illinois Chicago
Student leaders: Taeya Borek, Rebekah Cheung, Kyra Theodore
Adviser: Mike Reilley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Sunflower<\/a>
Wichita State University (KS)
Student leaders: Kiona Brown, Allison Campbell, Mia Hennen, Ainsley Smyth, Garima Thapa
Adviser: Amy DeVault<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ACP Pacemaker honors innovation Student media operations recognized for forward thinking; five earn Pacemakers WASHINGTON \u2014 Honoring the nation\u2019s best, the Associated College Press named five student media operations winners of its prestigious Pacemaker during an awards ceremony at the Fall National College Media Convention in Washington. \u201cThe Pacemaker is the association\u2019s preeminent award,\u201d executive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27858"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28257,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27858\/revisions\/28257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}