2008 Woodie Awards
The Guilfordian wins national college newspaper award
Jake Kalos
Issue date: 4/29/05 Section: News
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Other schools finishing in the first-place category included Duquesne University, SUNY at Geneseo, and Loyola University of New Orleans.
The contest was based on a 1,000-point scoring system. Participating schools entered three issues of their paper to be judged.
The criteria being scored were content coverage; page design; general plan; art, advertising, ilustrations; editing; and creativity.
The Guilfordian received 915 points out of the possible 1000, with a perfect score in editing.
"The award recognizes the superb effort of editor-in-chief Taleisha Bowen, the editors, and this year's staff writers," said Jeff Jeske, Dana Professor of English and advisor to The Guilfordian. "Credit is also due to the staffs that preceded them, for they set the foundations upon which Taleisha and her staff have so industriously and artfully built."
Bowen sees the award as a place to grow from in the future.
"It's a sign that we've been doing well," she said. "It's not a sign to coast along. There is still a lot that we can do better."
Along with the results of the contest, the judges from the American Scholastic Press sent the Guilfordian a list of ways to improve the paper in the future.
"I'm glad that we won the award," said next year's editor-in-chief, Matt Haselton, "but I'm more grateful for the suggestions. It'll be helpful to have definate goals to work towards."
The award came as a surprise to the staff. "It means that the paper is a lot better than I always thought it was," Bowen said.
"It's hard to look at the finished product and realize how well it's turned out when you are so wrapped up in the process of creating it," said Junior Staff Writer Caitlin Adams. "I am very excited that we won the award."
Jeske, who has just finished his eighteenth year of advising the paper is proud of the entire staff. "It's easy to forget how hard it is to produce a weekly newspaper. And people usually don't realize how good The Guilfordian is compared with other college papers, especially papers from schools of our size and resources."
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