The California College Media Association (CCMA) announced their college student newspaper awards for the 2023 calendar year with TSL taking home 13.
Winning four first-place awards, four second-place awards and five third-place awards, TSL established itself as a dominant force in its category of colleges under 15,000 students.
Some of its first-place awards included wins for “Best Breaking News Story” and “Best Overall Newspaper Design.”
TSL also stood out as not only a power in print but also online, winning several multimedia awards such as “Best Vertical Short Video” and “Best Podcast.”
Here’s the full list of TSL’s CCMA awards:
First place:
Best Overall Newspaper Design for Grace Sauers, Emma Constable, Hannah Weaver and Maxine Davey
Best Special Issue/Section for Averi Sullivan, Jenna McMurtry, Anuradha Krishnan, Saru Potturi, Rowan Gray and Daisy Alvarez’s Bringing Light to Black Resistance
Best Breaking News Story for Jenna McMurtry, Mariana Duran, Reia Li and Maxine Davey’s “Claremont Police Department arrests Pomona faculty member on campus”
Best Photo Illustration for Sasha Matthews’ graphic in “Sappho as queer icon: At Pomona College, Ella Haselswerdt talks lesbian futurism and queer theory”
Second place:
Best News Series for Ben Lauren, Maya Zhan, Maxine Davey, Sara Cawley, Mariana Duran, Annabelle Ink’s coverage of community responses to violence in Israel and Gaza
Best Social Media Reporting for Mariana Duran, Maxine Davey and Ben Lauren’s “Instagram coverage of student protests”
Best Sports Story for Ansley Washburn’s “Under new leadership, Sagehens men’s cross country secures third NCAA championship title”
Best Vertical Short Video for Quinn Dwyer and Averi Sullivan’s “Where to Find TSL Newspapers (with Rafa and Gus)”
Third place:
Best Newspaper Inside Page/Spread Design for Grace Sauers, Bella Pettengil, Hannah Weaver, Gerrit Punt and Averi Sullivan’s “Claremont Issue Spread”
Best Feature Story for Ben Lauren’s “112 years ago, the Boston Red Sox faced off against Pomona College. Today they are working together to change the perception of DIII baseball”
Best Illustration for Nicole Cepeda’s graphic in “Moments to Savor: The comical contents of greenboxes”
Best Headline Portfolio for Ben Lauren
Best Podcast for Hannah Weaver, Gerrit Punt, Ananya Vinay, Audrey Matei, Lina Chang, Julia Parsa’s “TSL Podcast: News Splash”