Nicole Johnson

The VanCougar won 7th Place Best in Show award at a national competition hosted by the Associated Collegiate Press. The publication was entered in the category of “four-year schools publishing a less-than-weekly newspaper” to a student body of 10,000 people or less.
The competition took place at the annual Associated Collegiate Press Midwinter National College Journalism Convention in Long Beach, California from March 1-3. Four members of The VanCougar’s editorial staff in addition to The VanCougar’s advisor attended the conference. The event featured more than 150 workshops teaching journalism skills over the three days. The VanCougar’s staff who attended the event look forward to implementing the skills and knowledge they learned to further improve the publication in the coming months and into the 2018-2019 school year.