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Elon News Network won a slew of awards from the national Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) during the association’s conference held March 7-9 in La Jolla, California.

Elon News Network’s website, , earned an Online Pacemaker award — the nation’s highest award for a student media website. In addition, ENN won Best of Show awards for news reporting, diversity/equity/inclusion reporting and digital newsletter. The Pendulum, ENN’s student newspaper, also won first place in the People’s Choice Award, voted on by attendees of the national convention.

A full list of award winners is available on . Below is a list of the Elon winners.

Elon winners

Winner – Online Pacemaker / Staff /

2nd Place – Best of Show Broadcast News Program / Staff /

2nd Place – Best of Show Newspaper / Staff /

4th Place – Best of Show Website / Staff /

1st Place – Best of Show Digital Newsletter / Staff /

1st Place – News Reporting / Sophie Rosenthal /

1st Place – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Reporting / Naomi Washington /

4th Place – Broadcast Feature Story / Betsy Schlehuber /

4th Place – Broadcast Sports Story / Mason Willett /

2nd Place – Newspaper/Newsmagazine / Erin Martin /

6th Place – News/Feature Photo / Joseph Navin /

3rd Place – Sports Photo / Katherine Martin /

1st Place – People’s Choice Award / Staff /

In addition to award presentations, the ACP conference included dozens of educational breakout sessions, student roundtables, on-site publication critiques, as well as keynote addresses by Society of Professional Journalists President Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins and Washington Post columnist Jerry Brewer.

ÁñÁ«app¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾Èë students attending the conference included Anjolina Fantaroni ’26, Nia Bedard ’26, Fiona McAllister ’26 and Sarah Moore ’26. They were accompanied by Senior Lecturer in Journalism Kelly Furnas.

Elon News Network was also celebrated at last month’s North Carolina College Media Association conference, collecting several Best of Show awards.