“The Campbell Times” earns national honors

     NASHVILLE—“The Campbell Times,” Campbell University’s campus newspaper, captured four awards, including the first-place award for newspaper design, at the Baptist Press Collegiate Journalism Conference.
     In addition to the first place award in front page design, one staff member received two awards. Courtney Willey, a junior mass communication major from Rocky Mount, received second place in feature writing and third place for in-depth news writing. Editor in Chief Melissa Lilley, a senior mass communication major from Elizabeth City, won second place in the regular column writing category.
     “Few people realize the intensive labor that students exert in publishing an award-winning weekly newspaper,” noted Michael Ray Smith, chair of the Department of Mass Communication. He went on to praise adviser Lisa Farmer for her leadership and Lilley for her ability to motivate and inspire new reporters and veteran section editors.
     More than 100 college students met with mass communication professionals from across the country in Nashville for the fifth annual Baptist Press journalism conference held in October. Keynote speakers included David Leeson, a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News, Steven K. Helling of People magazine and Gary Fong of the San Francisco Chronicle.
     The Excellence in Journalism competition is designed to recognize the best Baptist student newspapers and yearbooks in the nation and the competition included Baptist colleges and universities from across the nation.