MDC’s The Reporter Wins Top Student Newspaper in the State for 11th Consecutive Year

Miami, April 7, 2022 Miami Dade College’s (MDC) award-winning newspaper The Reporter has been named the top college student newspaper in Florida for the eleventh consecutive year at the recent Florida College System Publications Association (FCSPA) conference and awards ceremony.

The Reporter placed in 14 of 19 individual categories, including 10 first-place awards. It also accumulated 37 overall points. The competition was based on newspapers printed during the 2020-21 school year.

“It’s an honor to receive these awards,” said Adriana Dos Santos, who served as editor-in-chief last year when the submissions were made. “We would not have been able to accomplish this without the help of our talented staff.”

In addition to placing first in overall excellence, The Reporter was awarded top honors for In-Depth Reporting, News Story, Sports Writing, Humor Column, Feature Photo, Editorial Cartoon, Illustration, General Column, Website and Headlines. Student Camila Ramirez won an inner circle award for placing top three in three different categories.

“We are extremely humbled and proud to receive these awards,” said Ammy Sanchez, The Reporter’s current editor-in-chief. “Our mission is to keep the Miami Dade College community informed and we are happy to do so.”

The Reporter features 16 pages, prints on a monthly schedule, has a circulation of 10,250 per print cycle and is supplemented by a bi-weekly newsletter and a website with video and audio content. It is distributed at all eight MDC campuses and has newsrooms at the North, Wolfson and Kendall campuses. In the past eleven years, the paper has won 163 awards from the FCSPA, including 98 first-place honors.

Below is a list of the individual awards received by The Reporter staff:

THE REPORTER:

FIRST PLACE: 

Adriana Dos Santos, In-Depth Reporting

Adriana Dos Santos, News Story

Jose Tovar, Sports Writing

Ammy Sanchez, Humor Column

Alice Moreno, Feature Photo

Camila Ramirez, Editorial Cartoon

Camila Ramirez, Illustration

Alina Halley, General Column

Reporter Staff, Website

Reporter Staff, Headlines

SECOND PLACE:

Ammy Sanchez, Feature Story

Amanda Esposito, News Photo

Camila Ramirez, Comic Strip

THIRD PLACE:

Alice Moreno, Danelis Olivera-Herrera and Annabella Gomez, Picture Story