It's the first time for us.

There's a category for Pacemaker finalists and their online counterparts. We're already a print finalist, but we weren't aware of of an online award until a few days ago.

I noticed several links coming from studentpress.org in Google Analytics. I followed the link and found an "Online-only/Broadcast/Magazine/Yearbook" section that mentions us as a 2009 ACP Online Pacemaker Finalist.


We're mentioned with several very talented journalism institutions, including:

the217 - A publication of the Illini Media Company (which also handles the Illio), the 217 covers news, art and music in the Champaign-Urbana area in Illinois.



Flux - Flux is a student magazine at the University of Oregon. Their Web site follows a very simple design that's shrouded in darkness with neon colors for text. It produces a really edgy effect, especially for stories like that boy who never washed his jeans.



So, there you go. We scored another award. And this one's got Web all over it.

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So here's an interesting tidbit. Two spreads (four pages) from the Razorback Yearbook have been featured in a textbook. The book is called Creative Editing and you can check it out on Amazon.com right here.

The publishers are working on a Canadian edition, and we got an email asking for our copyright permissions to use the pages. Of course, we agreed. Here's a picture of the pages in context, so you can see just what this book has to say about our work.

Anyways, it's pretty cool to think that the hard work of UA students is being put into a textbook for other students to use as an example. I'm not sure exactly what year these pages are from, although I know it's near 1993 since that's when Bud Walton opened. But I bet the yearbook staffers from back then would be proud to know their work was still being acknowledged.

And if you want a look at the new things coming from the Razorback staff, we have just put up some sneak peek pages from our 2009 book! You can check them out here on Facebook, or at the Sneak Peek page on our website. Be sure to let us know what you think!
-Megan

Labels: awards, editing, past yearbooks, razorback, textbook, yearbook

Well, we just got word that for the second year in a row, the Razorback is a Crown finalist! Imagine my excitement when in the middle of slaving over our first deadline for the 2009 book we heard about this honor. I pretty much stopped what I was doing and jumped up and down in the office.

The Crown awards are given out by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, of Columbia University. They are one of the top two national awards a collegiate publication can get, and it's a great honor to even be nominated. The nomination means that in March when the CSPA gives out the awards, the Razorback will either receive a Gold or Silver Crown. Last year we got a Silver Crown, so we're hoping to make the jump to gold this year. But a total of 1,771 newspapers, yearbooks and magazines were eligible, and only nine yearbooks were named as finalists, so no matter what we get, it's pretty impressive. Bottom line: The 2009 Razorback is one of the best collegiate yearbooks in America. Whoa!

It's even more exciting because this is only our fifth time to receive a Crown. So stay tuned to see all the amazing things going on with the book and to see how we fare in March! If you want to see who our competition is, you can check it out at the following link:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa/docs/contests-and-critiques/crown-awards/recipients/2009-collegiate-crown.html#N100F0

-Megan
Co-Editor

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Leanna Payton, a writer on staff, did a multimedia video interview with our co-editor Shannon Sanders about the Razorback 2007, a Pacemaker finalist.

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The 2007 Razorback received a Silver Crown award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. The Crown awards are the second most prestigious given in the nation for yearbook excellence. It is the first Crown award the book has received since 1992 and only the fourth time in Razorback history the book has received a Crown.

Read more on the Journalism News Site.

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Members of the 2007 Razorback yearbook staff have been awarded Gold Circles, given out by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association to recognize individual excellence. The staff members and their awards are:

Mallory Smith

• First place for Division pages
  
• Third place for Opening and Closing pages
  
• Honorable Mention for Endsheets
  
• Honorable Mention in the Sports Spread category for Lady’Back Track page
  
• Honorable Mention in the Feature Presentation category for Darren McFadden page
  

Carolyn Finnie

• First place in the Mini-Magazine for Year in Review mini magazine
  
• Honorable Mention in the Feature Presentation category for Darren McFadden page
  
• Honorable Mention in the Color Spread category for Razorback Football page
  

Megan Garner

• First place in the Mini-Magazine for Year in Review mini magazine
  

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The 2007 Razorback Yearbook has been named a finalist for the Pacemaker award! Given out by the Associated Collegiate Press, the Pacemaker is the highest honor a student publication can receive, and is considered to be the Pulitzer Prize of student journalism. The Razorback is one of 15 finalists for the award, which will be awarded in November.

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