Southeastern student newspaper honored with first-place award
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
by: Tonya Lowentritt
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University’s student newspaper The Lion’s Roar
has been recognized with a first-place award in the 2018 American Scholastic Press
Association’s newspaper competition in New York.
The newspaper earned 895 total points out of a possible 1,000 in the competition
and was noted by judges as “an excellent school newspaper which shows the creativity
and journalistic knowledge of your editors, reporters, writers, photographers, layout/graphics
designers, advertising/sales managers and advisor.”
“I am extremely proud of the dedication and effort our students put into each
article published,” said Dr. Lee E. Lind, director of Student Publications. “On Southeastern’s
campus the newspaper is the chronicle of our daily lives, an important channel for
community discussion and information, and the learning laboratory for the development
of superior journalistic skills. This recognition from the ASPA is an indicator of
the success Southeastern students have achieved in those areas.”
The Lion’s Roar publishes between 28 and 32 print issues per year and is augmented
by daily updates and online content at www.lionsroarnews.com. The ASPA annual contest
is also a review of publication quality, and The Lion’s Roar received a perfect score
in the category of page design.
Editor-in-Chief Larshell Green, a senior communications major from Hammond, leads
the staff of student reporters.
“I am impressed and grateful for the honors that the staff and I have received
for our work associated with The Lion’s Roar,” said Green. “With each assignment or
task completed, I witnessed an expansion in the staff’s confidence and skills in creativity,
journalism, photography, editing and communication. I couldn’t be more proud of the
work that we have created together as a professional family. The legacy of the work
that we have created will surpass our collegiate careers and leave a lasting imprint
on the hearts of our readers.”
The American Scholastic Press Association competition judges approximately 2,000
yearbooks, newspapers, and magazines annually from high schools, colleges, and universities
across the nation. The competition is in its 38th continuous year of operation.
