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The Pitt News wins state student journalism awards

The William Pitt Union

The writers, photographers, videographers and editors at The Pitt News, Pitt's student newspaper, cleaned up in the 2018 Keystone Awards contest for student journalists in Pennsylvania. The newspaper won four first-place awards, four second-place awards and three honorable mentions.

First-place awards went to Christian Snyder for column writing, John Hamilton for photography, Raka Sarkar for illustrations and Janine Faust for a personality profile. 

Stephen Caruso, Zoe Pawliczek and Ashwini Sivaganesh won second place in the news category for their collaboration on a story, as did James Evan Bowen-Gaddy and Amber Montgomery for a personality profile and Elaina Zachos for a photograph. Hamilton, Sivaganesh and Rachel Glasser secured an honorable mention in the general news category, Garrett Aguilar earned an honorable mention for his basketball preview cover illustration, and Li Yi earned an honorable mention for the photograph.