It was another great year for North Lake College journalism students at this year’s Texas Intercollegiate Press Association convention, which was held in Corpus Christi in March 2019. Students from the News-Register received 12 awards despite participating in a highly competitive division of colleges that included St. Edwards University, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Texas Wesleyan University, and Trinity University.

Here is the complete list of NLC student winners.

First Place:

News-Register Staff, Op/Ed Page Design, “Sept. 24, 2018”

Cecilia Lenzen, General Column, “Free Speech: It’s OK to Say It”

Moises Martinez, Feature Story, “Making A Dream A Reality”

Justin Livingston, Ad Design, “Duck Soup”

Joanna Mikolajczak, Environmental Portrait, “Faculty Profile” (Melodee Ramirez)

Justin Livingston, Photo Illustration, “Super Bowl”

Joanna Mikolajczak, Photo Story, “40th Anniversary of NLC”

Cecilia Lenzen, Critical Review, “Mission Impossible”

Second Place: 

Rachel Walters, Editorial Cartoon, “I like your hoodie”

Brian Curran, General News Photo, “Fit 2 Hire”

Third Place:

Joanna Mikolajczak, Environmental Portrait,” “Student Francesca Crawford in the Blazer Student Store …”

Joanna Mikolajczak, Sports Action Photo, “Kerrick Wilson, #11, scoring a point for the Blazers …”