MDC News

Miami Dade College’s student publications continue to receive excellent notices and amass top prizes at the state and national level.

The student newspaper, The Reporter, has been named the top college newspaper in the state by the Florida College System Publications Association (FSCPA) for the seventh year in a row.

The Reporter staff placed in 12 of 18 individual categories – including six first-place awards – at the recent FCSPA awards banquet in Orlando. The paper has won 100 awards from the FCSPA in the past seven years, including 58 first-place honors.

In addition to placing first in overall excellence, individuals won first place honors for In-Depth Reporting, News Story, Humor Column, Picture Story, Editorial Cartoon and Design. The competition was based on newspapers printed during the 2016-17 school year. The Reporter accumulated 27 overall points.

“I am so grateful for having such a supportive and hardworking staff,” said Maria Vizcaino, The Reporter’s editor-in-chief. “We were blessed to have been part of the paper. The real accomplishments are the experiences we had and the friends we made.”

The Reporter features 16 pages, prints on a biweekly schedule, has a circulation of 10,250 per print cycle and is supplemented by a website with video and audio content. It is distributed at all eight MDC campuses and has newsrooms at the Kendall, North and Wolfson Campuses.

FIRST PLACE:

Maria Vizcaino and Riane Roldan, In-Depth Reporting

Riane Roldan, News Story

Katherine Wallace-Fernandez, Humor Column

Omar Negrin and Sebastian Ballestas, Picture Story

Enio Acosta, Jr., Editorial Cartoon

Staff, Design

SECOND PLACE:

Sabrina Martin, General Column

Rosanna Oviedo, Sports Column

Ciro Salcedo, Arts Review

THIRD PLACE:

Omar Negrin, Feature Photo

Jonathan Munoz, Comic Strip

Aaron Carbo, Advertising Design

Readers can pick up a copy of The Reporter on campus, or view it online at www.mdcthereporter.com. Follow on Twitter @MDCTheReporter | Instagram @mdcthereporter | Facebook at www.facebook.com/mdc.thereporter.

Students interested in more information about the newspaper may contact advisor Manolo Barco at 305-237-1255, mbarco@mdc.edu.

The Mags Have It

When it comes to applying their creative writing, photography and design skills, MDC students at various campuses aim high and consistently hit the mark to produce nationally-recognized literary magazines. This year, the literary magazines staff and their dedicated faculty advisors celebrate winning multiple state, regional and national awards and recognitions.

Here’s a complete list of awards (by publication):

Café Cultura, Hialeah Campus
Gold Circle awards, Columbia Scholastic Press Association (National)
1^st Place, Humor Writing – “The Exclamatory Statement” by Arvayah Rozier
2^nd Place, Photo Illustration – “Anonymous” by Andy Lopez

Florida College System Publications Association (State), Division A.
3^rd Place, Two-Page Spread – Yarien Suarez
3^rd Place, Design – Yarien Suarez
3^rd Place, Editing – Hannia Santisteban

Estuaries, Homestead Campus
Community College Humanities Association
Honorable Mention, Photography – “Spice” by Audrey Deleon

Florida College System Publications Association, Division A
1^st Place, Artwork-Individual, Angel Quintana
1^st Place, Two-Page Spread Design, Joshua Gonzalez
1^st Place, Design, Sean Collazo
2^nd Place, General Excellence
2^nd Place, Nonfiction, Cristina Burciaga
2^nd Place, Artworks, Charlise Montrope
2^nd Place, Contents Page, Joshua Gonzalez
2^nd Place, Staff Page, Irwin Carajal
3^rd Place, Fiction, Souan Uy
3^rd Place, Photography, Audrey Deleon

Miambiance, Kendall Campus
Gold Circle Awards, Columbia Scholastic Press Association
3^rd Place, Humor, Izabella Felpeto, “Yeya’s Gril”
Certificate of Merit, Photography, Edian Ibarrola

Community College Humanities Association
2^nd Place, Magazines from Large Colleges: Southern Division
2^nd Place, Artwork/Southern Division – “Sitting in Despair” by Dyron Gabriel Lafuente
Honorable Mention, Creative Nonfiction/Southern Division – “The Feminine Aspect” by Jennifer L. Weiner

Florida College System Publications Association
2^nd Place, Cover by Octavio Fernandez
2^nd Place, Staff Page by Marcos Tzvetanov

Urbana, InterAmerican Campus
Florida College System Press Association, Division B
Inner Circle Award, Guisell Gomez
1st Place, Nonfiction, Guisell Gomez
1^st Place, On the Spot Film Review Content, Mariantonieta Chavez
1st Place, Photo, Luka Bilbao
1st Place, Art, Rey Jaffet
2^nd Place, General Excellence Award
2^nd Place, Artwork, Rey Jaffet
2^nd Place, Poetry, Guisell Gomez
2^nd Place, Editing, Guisell Gomez
2^nd Place, Contents Page, Darlin Gonzalez Jimenez
3^rd Place, Poem, Tess Cusidor
3^rd Place, Photography, Darlin Gonzalez Jimenez, Mariantonieta Chavez, Luis Prieto
3^rd Place, On the Spot Photography Contest, Mariantonieta Chavez

Axis, North Campus 
Pacemaker Award finalist, Literary Arts Magazine, Two-Year Institution, Associated Collegiate Press
Pinnacle Award finalist, Two-Year Literary Magazine of the Year, College Media Association

Community College Humanities Association
2^nd Place, Creative Arts Magazine

Florida College System Publications Association, Division B
1^st Place, Cover, Kino Binsworth Robinson III
1^st Place, Contents Page, Kino Binsworth Robinson III
3^rd Place, Poetry, “Household Denial” by Kaitlyn Menendez, “Threads” by Alexa dePablo and “The Poet” by Joshua Buron

Metromorphosis, Wolfson Campus
Community College Humanities Association
Poetry, Jerron Feaster, “A poem for Tact”
Creative Non-fiction, Rafael Arana, “Simple, Sweet…”

Florida College System Publications Association, Division B
1^st Place, Best Photography
1^st Place, Best Art Works
3^rd Place, Nonfiction Riane Roldan
3^rd Place, Photo Salua Rivero