{"id":33992,"date":"2015-04-17T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=33992"},"modified":"2015-05-05T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:07:38","slug":"acc-students-recognized-and-awarded-at-statewide-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/04\/17\/acc-students-recognized-and-awarded-at-statewide-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC students recognized and awarded at statewide convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin Community College (ACC) student-run newspaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/austincc.collegiatelink.net\/organization\/accent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Accent<\/a>, received five awards at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) 2015 convention last weekend in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s incredible to receive recognition like this from our peers,\u201d says Joseph Van Vranken, Accent multimedia editor who received first place for critical review. \u201cIt shows the strength of our publication and is a testament to the work the entire Accent staff puts into our publication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TIPA, a nationally recognized collegiate press association, holds contests among university and college-level student-run media at its annual convention.\u00a0This year 442 students attended the convention from 62 member colleges and universities.\u00a0Accent competed in the Newspaper Division V category against peers including University of the Incarnate Word, North Lake College, St. Mary\u2019s University, and Texas Wesleyan University, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Van Vranken, the following students received awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First Place Picture Story &#8211;\u00a0Dave Creaney, photographer, and\u00a0Preston Bezant, layout\/design editor<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention News story &#8211;\u00a0Manal El-Haj, reporter<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention Feature Page Design &#8211;\u00a0Preston Bezant, layout\/design editor<\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention Illustration (Non-photo) &#8211;\u00a0Daniel Groh, contributor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Accent Editor-in-Chief Noor Alahmadi also was elected secretary of the 2016 TIPA student executive committee during the convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin Community College (ACC) student-run newspaper, Accent, received five awards at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) 2015 convention last weekend in San Antonio. \u201cIt\u2019s incredible to receive recognition like this from our peers,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/04\/17\/acc-students-recognized-and-awarded-at-statewide-convention\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":33995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,19],"tags":[194,157,195,193],"class_list":["post-33992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-accent","tag-award","tag-student-newspaper","tag-tipa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}