{"id":4484,"date":"2012-09-05T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2012-09-05T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:07:50","slug":"journalism-grads-honored-with-press-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/journalism-grads-honored-with-press-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism grads honored with press awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholson School journalism graduate\u00a0<strong>Isaac Babcock<\/strong>, \u201904, was a big winner at the Florida Press Association Better Weekly Newspaper awards on July 7 in Destin, Fla. Babcock, associate editor of The Winter Park-Maitland Observer, won first place for his sports feature \u201cRollins resurrects a legacy,\u201d detailing one man\u2019s mission to revive Rollins College\u2019s football, a team that hadn\u2019t played organized football since 1949. One judge wrote, \u201cTremendous feature sports story! Excellent job of research and use of photographs to tell the story of the past and future of football at Rollins.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/09\/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-3.56.17-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4485\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-09-04 at 3.56.17 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/09\/Screen-Shot-2012-09-04-at-3.56.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Babcock\u2019s story \u201cAmerican dreamer,\u201d chronicling a Winter Park woman\u2019s fight to adopt a Namibian girl with spina bifida, earned first place in the faith and family reporting category. One judge wrote, \u201cBeautifully written account of one girl\u2019s difficult journey. We really come to care about Elizabeth and to rejoice in the happiness she\u2019s found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Community Media Division of Turnstile Media Group, which includes the Observer and its sister papers Seminole Voice and East Orlando Sun, took home seven awards in all, winning first place in five editorial categories.\u00a0<strong>Jenny Andreasson<\/strong>, \u201907, also a journalism graduate of the Nicholson School, is managing editor of Observer Newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholson School journalism graduate\u00a0Isaac Babcock, \u201904, was a big winner at the Florida Press Association Better Weekly Newspaper awards on July 7 in Destin, Fla. 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