{"id":29545,"date":"2026-10-30T20:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/?p=29545"},"modified":"2026-11-07T14:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T20:29:06","slug":"2026-innovation-pacemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/2026\/10\/30\/2026-innovation-pacemaker\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Innovation Pacemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ACP Pacemaker honors innovation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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

Nov. 7, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KANSAS CITY, MO. \u2014 Honoring the nation\u2019s best, the Associated College Press named two student media operations winners of its prestigious Pacemaker during an awards ceremony at the Fall National College Media Convention<\/a><\/strong> in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/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, four 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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Fall 2026 awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fall 2026 Pacemakers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2026 Individual Awards<\/strong><\/p>\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><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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2026 Innovation Pacemakers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Listed by state<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Los Angeles Loyolan
<\/a><\/strong>Loyola Marymount University (CA)
Student leaders: Olivia Silvester, Sabatino Stacchi
Advisers: Kevin O’Keeffe, Tom Nelson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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StoryBytes Media
<\/a><\/strong>Miami Dade College Kendall Campus (FL)
Student leaders: Maria Almarza, Victoria Cuellar, Priscilla Pachecho, Halee Provost, Valerie Williams
Adviser: Emily Andrea Sendin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ACP Pacemaker honors innovation Student media operations recognized for forward thinking; two earn Pacemakers Nov. 7, 2026 KANSAS CITY, MO. \u2014 Honoring the nation\u2019s best, the Associated College Press named two student media operations winners of its prestigious Pacemaker during an awards ceremony at the Fall National College Media Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. \u201cThe […]<\/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\/29545"}],"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=29545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29899,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions\/29899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}