UPDATE: The Volante wins Pacemaker Award

UPDATE: Check out Keloland TV’s coverage of The Volante’s 2012 Pacemaker Award here.

A University of South Dakota contemporary media and journalism organization was awarded a top award at the Associated Collegiate Press and National College Media Convention in Chicago, Ill., Nov. 3.

The Volante, advised by journalist-in-residence Chuck Baldwin, was awarded a Pacemaker Award, recognizing the paper and its staff as one of the best college newspapers in the nation. It is considered the Pulitzer Prize of college

journalism.

This is The Volante’s seventh Pacemaker Award since 1993 and second-consecutive award. This was the 17th time The Volante has been named a finalist since 1990. The Volante was one of 12 newspapers to win a Pacemaker in the four-year non-daily category.

The Pacemaker Award judges four-year dailies, four-year non-dailies and two-year newspapers. Judges select Pacemakers based on coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth reporting, design, photography, art and graphics. Pacemakers are selected by the staff of a professional newspaper or news organization.