{"id":3858,"date":"2016-09-19T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2016-09-25T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T23:21:05","slug":"all-2016-individual-award-finalists-have-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/2016\/09\/19\/all-2016-individual-award-finalists-have-been-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"All 2016 Individual Award finalists have been announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judging for the ACP Individual Awards was quite a process. A pool of more than 2,500 entries spanned across the 29 individual award categories. Roughly ten percent \u2014 253 entries \u2014 from the original list were selected as individual award finalists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The entire scoring process took place over two months and was completed by a judging staff of 20 skilled journalism professionals. ACP would like to extend a special thank you to Kansas City&#8217;s Springboard Creative, Chicago Headline Club, and\u00a0Universal UClick for providing teams to help out with judging several of the individual award categories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the judges were thankful to be a part of the process, writing similar comments in each category&#8217;s feedback that it was pleasure to see all of the wonderful and creative student work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As one Story of the Year judge noted, \u201cIt was invigorating to find students tackling incredibly tough and divisive issues with clean, crisp writing; well-formed and well-organized arguments; and clear calls to action. Their work, by and large, shows solid thinking and reasoned advocacy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judges included comments on the strengths of each ranked piece, and constructive criticism for how to improve it. These more detailed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">notes for entries will be released after official rankings are disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, the judge consensus on the entry pool for Individual awards was that it was full of hard work and impressive pieces. As one judge recognized in her feedback, every entry showed promise and commitment to good journalism. We at ACP would like to commend all publications for this and thank those schools that submitted for helping us recognize amazing student work.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/awards\/2016soy-f\/\">Story of the Year finalists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/awards\/2016roy-f\/\">Reporter of the Year finalists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/awards\/2016doy-f\/\">Design of the Year finalists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/awards\/2016advertising-f\/\">Advertising Award finalists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/awards\/2016msoy-f\/\">Multimedia Story of the Year finalists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/awards\/2016photo-f\/\">Photo Excellence Award finalists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/studentpress.org\/acp\/awards\/2016cartooning-f\/\">Cartooning Award finalists<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to all of the 2016 Individual Award finalists. Official winner rankings will be announced at the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/acpdc16.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACP National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. on Oct. 20-23. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging for the ACP Individual Awards was quite a process. A pool of more than 2,500 entries spanned across the 29 individual award categories. Roughly ten percent \u2014 253 entries \u2014 from the original list were selected as individual award finalists. 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