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Daily Cardinal Columnist Wins National Writing Award

Congratulations to The Daily Cardinal's sports columnist and incoming managing editor Nico Savidge, who won the National Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence Award in sports column writing: 

Sports Column Writing
National Winner: “Savidge Nation,” Nico Savidge, The Daily Cardinal , University of Wisconsin-Madison
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First-place national winners will be recognized at the Excellence in Journalism 2011 conference Sept. 25-27 in New Orleans.

Daily Cardinal Wins SPJ Awards

INDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to announce the Region 6 Mark of Excellence Award winners for the 2010 calendar year. This year, the contest received almost 4,000 entries.

The honorees were awarded certificates on April 9 during the Region 6 SPJ Spring Conference held in Bloomington, Minn. First place regional winners will advance to the national round of judging. National winners will be announced in early May.

The Cardinal's winners were:

Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper
• Second Place: The Daily Cardinal, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Editorial Writing
• Third Place: The Daily Cardinal, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Feature Writing
• Second Place: The Daily Cardinal Features Entry – by Allison Dirr, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sports Column Writing
• First Place: Nico Savidge, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Second Place: Ben Breiner, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Congratulations!

Daily Cardinal Wins SPJ Awards

The Daily Cardinal has been awarded 12 Region Six Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Among the awards is a first-place win for Cardinal photographer Kyle Bursaw in the Sports Photography category, for his photo of UW basketball player Jon Leuer.

Cardinal staffers won awards for breaking news photography, editorial cartooning, in-depth reporting, general news reporting and sports column writing. The Cardinal also took second place in the best all-around daily paper contest.

The full list of awards can be found here.

The DCAA congratulates all the winners.

Cardinal Contends for National Pacemaker Awards

The Daily Cardinal has been nominated for three national Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Awards, which recognize the best student journalism in the country. The winners of the contest will be announced at the National College Media Conference in Washington, D.C. October 24-28, 2007.

The Cardinal is a finalist for ACP Newspaper Pacemaker in the "four-year daily newspapers" category.

Additionally, these individuals have been nominated:

2007 ACP Design of the Year Finalist: Erik Opsal

2007 ACP Cartooning Awards Finalist: Phil Hands

Check back to this space to see the results. Congratulations to the staff!

Congratulations Are In Order: Cardinal Wins Top SPJ Awards

Last week the Society of Professional Journalists announced their student press award winners and the Daily Cardinal took home the SPJ's top prize.

Cardinal wins 6 SPJ Awards; wins best paper

The Daily Cardinal is again the Midwest's best-all-around daily student newspaper for the second year in a row and the 3 time in 6 years.

Daily Cardinal takes 9 regional SPJ Awards, 1 national honor

The Daily Cardinal receives SPJ and WNPA awards.

Cardinal to receive SPJ awards

The Daily Cardinal is the Midwest's "Best All-Around Student Newspaper" for 1997-98.