Bucks Co. Community College Newspaper Wins 15 Awards, Sets Record

NEWTOWN, PA — The Centurion, the Bucks County Community College student newspaper, was honored in a big way at a recent state awards ceremony.

The paper won a total of 15 prizes at the annual Keystone Press Awards, which were held on April 3 in Hershey.

Of those 15, eight were first place prizes. The school has now won 108 in their history, they said.

“I think some school papers carry a lot of reviews and opinion pieces, which certainly have their place," Professor Tony Rogers, who coordinates the school's journalism program, said. "But our emphasis is on substantive hard-news reporting, which requires the kinds of skills professional newspapers and news websites are looking for in recent college graduates."

BCCC won in the following categories of the two-year statewide college division: general news, ongoing news coverage, service/enterprise package, personality profile, feature story, feature photo, website, and video story.

Check out The Centurion's stellar work at their online home.