The Daily News staff received four awards, including two first-place awards, at the Indiana Collegiate Press Association-Hoosier State Press Association College Division Contest.
Each university in Indiana had the opportunity to submit one entry to each of the five categories — news, features, editorial/opinion, photo and sports — and the best student media works were chosen from the submissions.
1st-place winners:
News — “Faculty with felonies: where’s the line?” by Brynn Mechem and Max Lewis.
Editorial — "OUR VIEW: Indiana lawmakers are failing student journalists" by the 2017-18 Daily News editorial board.
2nd-place winners:
Features — "Living Form: The man behind the masks" by Brooke Kemp.
Sports — "Amateur Muncie boxer uses rough childhood as motivation in ring” by Elizabeth Wyman.