2017 California Journalism Awards — Campus Division finalists
By default, the table below displays the California Journalism Awards — Campus Division finalists based on the order of the contest categories in the entry materials.
The table is sortable by the column headers (Category, Division, Newspaper, Credits, Title) but you probably want to zero in on your own newspaper. The easiest way to do that is to use the search box.
A search will begin as soon as you start typing in the box. The more specific you are, the faster you’ll find your results.
For example, if you type “Daily” or “News” you’ll end up with a lot of unwanted results. Instead, try “Daily Californian” or “City News” or the name of your campus for more specific results. If you still get unwanted results, try putting quotes around your search words.
Click here to download a printable PDF of the campus finalists.
Click here for a text-only version
Daily and weekly newspaper finalists are here.
First- and second-place plaques for General Excellence and Online General Excellence will be presented at the 2017 California Journalism Awards Luncheon on Saturday, April 14 at The Lodge at Sonoma Renaissance Resort & Spa in Sonoma. Event details and registration are available online. We hope to see you there!
| Category | Division | Newspaper | Credits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Excellence | 4-Year Universities | Sonoma State University-Sonoma State Star | ||
| General Excellence | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | ||
| General Excellence | 4-Year Universities | CSU Sacramento-The State Hornet | ||
| General Excellence | 4-Year Universities | CSU Chico-The Orion | ||
| General Excellence | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Ana College-el Don | ||
| General Excellence | 2-Year Colleges | Southwestern College-The Sun | ||
| General Excellence | 2-Year Colleges | Contra Costa College-The Advocate | ||
| General Excellence | 2-Year Colleges | Los Angeles City College-City News | ||
| General Excellence | High Schools | Harvard-Westlake School-The Chronicle | ||
| General Excellence | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | ||
| General Excellence | High Schools | Claremont High School-The Wolfpacket | ||
| General Excellence | High Schools | Archbishop Riordan High School-The Crusader | ||
| Writing | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | William Thorne | War Stories |
| Writing | 4-Year Universities | CSU Fullerton-Daily Titan | Harrison Faigen | The friendship that’s fueled Cal State Fullerton baseball |
| Writing | 4-Year Universities | San Jose State University-Spartan Daily | Trevin Smith | SJSU athletes gamble brains for on-field glory |
| Writing | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Christi Carras | Casting the Mold |
| Writing | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Rosa Junior College-The Oak Leaf | Brandon McCapes | Oak Leaf writing 3 - Eric Thompson |
| Writing | 2-Year Colleges | Southwestern College-The Sun | Michael McDonald | Duty, honor, country |
| Writing | 2-Year Colleges | Fresno City College-Rampage | Ashleigh Panoo | Arechiga |
| Writing | 2-Year Colleges | City College of San Francisco-The Guardsman | Bethaney Lee | Walking the line |
| Writing | High Schools | Castro Valley High School-The Olympian | Hannah Johansson, Ria Panjwani | “We all came from somewhere” |
| Writing | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Sabina Mahavni | Hidden Realities |
| Writing | High Schools | Archbishop Riordan High School-The Crusader | Roman Peregrino | Spartan sisterly love saves Crusader brother |
| Writing | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Steph Kang | Low income kids look like you |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | 4-Year Universities | UC Berkeley-The Daily Californian | Ashley Wong | Young America’s Foundation: Who is funding UC Berkeley’s Ben Shapiro event? |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | 4-Year Universities | Loyola Marymount University-Los Angeles Loyolan | Antonio De Loera-Brust, Los Angeles Loyolan Staff | City of Deportees |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Evolet Chiu, Jintak Han, Iris Lee | Cannabis Kingdom |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | 4-Year Universities | UC Berkeley-The Daily Californian | Staff | Sexual Misconduct throughout the UC System |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Rosa Junior College-The Oak Leaf | Brandon McCapes, Michael Barnes, James Wyatt | The Oak Leaf Housing issue |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | 2-Year Colleges | San Jose City College-The Times | Lauren Quilty | Delay in science building repairs raise questions regarding safety |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | 2-Year Colleges | Contra Costa College-The Advocate | Michael Santone | Breath of Death |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Ana College-el Don | Noemi Mosqueda, Timothy Bravo | Population Along Skid River Increases |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | High Schools | Harvard-Westlake School-The Chronicle | Josie Abugov Noa Schwartz | Elephant in the Room |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | High Schools | Archbishop Riordan High School-The Crusader | Julian Castillo | Hidden figure under gym floor revealed during refurbishing |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | High Schools | Castro Valley High School-The Olympian | Mia Babasyan, Wailea Siler | Unsafe amounts of lead in water found in CVUSD fountains |
| Enterprise News Story or Series | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Katie Cologna | Your next soulmate ... could be someone's cell mate |
| Profile Story | 4-Year Universities | CSU Sacramento-The State Hornet | John Ferrannini | Meet the man who sued Sac State for right to form an official LGBT club on campus — and won |
| Profile Story | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Mackenzie Possee | Free & Fighting |
| Profile Story | 4-Year Universities | UC Berkeley-The Daily Californian | Malini Raimayer | Gentrification in South Berkeley |
| Profile Story | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Shreya Maskara | LGBTQ student veteran reflects upon time in military, at UCLA |
| Profile Story | 2-Year Colleges | Southwestern College-The Sun | Katy Stegall | The boy wonder |
| Profile Story | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Rosa Junior College-The Oak Leaf | Michael Barnes | Oak Leaf profile story 2 |
| Profile Story | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Rosa Junior College-The Oak Leaf | Julia Modell | Oak Leaf Profile story 1 |
| Profile Story | 2-Year Colleges | City College of San Francisco-The Guardsman | Patrick Cochran | Why the Rams always have Aus-some punters |
| Profile Story | High Schools | Archbishop Riordan High School-The Crusader | Roman Peregrino | Spartan sisterly love saves Crusader brother |
| Profile Story | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Black Student Union returns | |
| Profile Story | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Sidney Zabell | The passion behind a professional painter |
| Profile Story | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Abbie Gould | Facing the dreaded empty nest |
| Columns | 4-Year Universities | Sonoma State University-Sonoma State Star | Olivia Hunt | Columns by Olivia Hunt:"Nevertheless, she persisted" and "Trump abruptly fires FBI Director James Comey" |
| Columns | 4-Year Universities | California Polytechnic State University-Mustang Da | Neil Sandhu | Pomp, circumstance, rinse and repeat, Milo Yiannopolos and the horrible, no good, terrible, very bad day, |
| Columns | 4-Year Universities | The Claremont Colleges - The Student Life | Kate Dolgenos | Free Speech Debates Miss the Point / Political Polarization at the 5Cs is Harming Our Education |
| Columns | 4-Year Universities | Santa Clara University-The Santa Clara | Jay Fuchs | Jay Fuch's Column |
| Columns | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Rosa Junior College-The Oak Leaf | Michael Barnes | Oak Leaf column writer 1 |
| Columns | 2-Year Colleges | El Camino College-The Union | Oshari Arnett | The journey to finding my voice |
| Columns | 2-Year Colleges | Glendale College-El Vaquero | Catalina Juarez | Catalina Juarez, Opinion Writing |
| Columns | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Rosa Junior College-The Oak Leaf | Rachel Edelstein | Oak Leaf column writer Rachel Edelstein |
| Columns | High Schools | Castro Valley High School-The Olympian | Ria Panjwani | Women’s March: “Let’s keep fighting” and How to avoid fake news and its consequences |
| Columns | High Schools | Castro Valley High School-The Olympian | Hannah Johansson | Why we should keep conserving as the drought ends and How to use flood water effectively |
| Columns | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Sabina Mahavni | Happiness is a relative ideal for all people AND Lose a loved one – gain respect for another one |
| Columns | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Will Anderson | Seniors: You could be cured from your misery AND My life as a Christian |
| Sports Game Story | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Matt Cummings | UCLA men’s basketball season comes to bittersweet end |
| Sports Game Story | 4-Year Universities | San Diego State University-The Daily Aztec | Abraham Jewitt | SDSU topples No. 19 Stanford, 20-17 |
| Sports Game Story | 4-Year Universities | CSU Fullerton-Daily Titan | Yaresly Sanchez-Aguilera | CSUF Men's Soccer Dominates Sac State in 3-1 home win |
| Sports Game Story | 4-Year Universities | CSU Fullerton-Daily Titan | Harrison Faigen | CSUF Women's Soccer Fails in Big West Tournament |
| Sports Game Story | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Ana College-el Don | Laura Garcia | Craft Leads Dons |
| Sports Game Story | 2-Year Colleges | City College of San Francisco-The Guardsman | Patrick Cochran | Rams on fire after 59-7 blowout of Diablo Valley |
| Sports Game Story | 2-Year Colleges | El Camino College-The Union | Dmitri Hansen | Women's volleyball team wins rivalry game against Long Beach |
| Sports Game Story | 2-Year Colleges | El Camino College-The Union | Don Perez | El Camino women’s tennis team finds bright spots in loss to Irvine Valley College |
| Sports Game Story | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Will Anderson, Spencer Cova | Football falls short of state |
| Sports Game Story | High Schools | Harvard-Westlake School-The Chronicle | Matthew Yam, Matthew Yam, Jake Liker | Boys’ tennis wins CIF-SS DI championship; Boys’ lacrosse defeats rival Loyola in sudden death thriller; Back for More: Boys’ basketball takes home CIF-Southern Section Division 1A title |
| Sports Game Story | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Andrew Yung | Varsity football bounces back |
| Sports Game Story | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Spencer Cova | GBHS rock climber thrives on big stage |
| News Photo | 4-Year Universities | CSU Sacramento-The State Hornet | Joseph Daniels | DACA protest |
| News Photo | 4-Year Universities | CSU Long Beach-Daily 49er | Carlos Blancas | Moving to divest |
| News Photo | 4-Year Universities | CSU Fullerton-Daily Titan | Fernando Salazar | Riot Police and People Gather Outside Milo Yiannopoulos Event at CSUF |
| News Photo | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Aubrey Yeo | The Watermark evictions |
| News Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Contra Costa College-The Advocate | Denis Perez | 07_NewsPhoto_2 |
| News Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Rosa Junior College-The Oak Leaf | Dakota McGranahan | Fire photo of couple in rubble |
| News Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Contra Costa College-The Advocate | Denis Perez | 07_NewsPhoto_1 |
| News Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Southwestern College-The Sun | Natalie Mosqueda | Perchance to dream |
| News Photo | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Katie Cologna | Flags waving (center, dominant) |
| News Photo | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Carissa Lewis | Protest drummers (middle right) |
| News Photo | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Sabina Mahavni | Dancers with masks (bottom left) |
| News Photo | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Carissa Lewis | Boy lunging (dominant center) |
| Feature Photo | 4-Year Universities | UC Berkeley-The Daily Californian | Vivian Roan | Aftermath of Sonoma Fires |
| Feature Photo | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Keila Mayberry | Out of retirement |
| Feature Photo | 4-Year Universities | CSU Northridge-The Sundial | Justen Christensen | Journey through Havasu |
| Feature Photo | 4-Year Universities | California Polytechnic State University-Mustang Da | Jody Miller | Jake Javier |
| Feature Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Cuesta College-The Cuestonian | Sameer Wahba | Sameer Wahba photo |
| Feature Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Contra Costa College-The Advocate | Denis Perez | 08_BestFeaturePhoto_2 |
| Feature Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Rosa Junior College-The Oak Leaf | Dakota McGranahan | Feature photo - fire |
| Feature Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Los Angeles City College-City News | Ande Richards | Indigenous Peoples Day Gets Stamp of Approval |
| Feature Photo | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Logan Embree | Fall leaf (cover photo) |
| Feature Photo | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Logan Embree | Christmas ornament (cover photo) |
| Feature Photo | High Schools | Castro Valley High School-The Olympian | Rachel Stein | DECA delivers annual talent show |
| Feature Photo | High Schools | Castro Valley High School-The Olympian | Wailea Siler | Sweet Senior win Homecoming |
| Sports Action Photo | 4-Year Universities | San Diego State University-The Daily Aztec | Kelly Smiley | Rashaad Penny hurdles Boise defenders |
| Sports Action Photo | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Keila Mayberry | UCLA shuts out Oregon in second half, races away with 31-14 win |
| Sports Action Photo | 4-Year Universities | CSU Bakersfield-The Runner | AJ Alvarado | Matt Smith goes up for a contested layup |
| Sports Action Photo | 4-Year Universities | CSU Fullerton-Daily Titan | Katie Albertson | Titan basketball player targets the basket |
| Sports Action Photo | 2-Year Colleges | San Jose City College-The Times | Benjamin Castro | San Jose City College against visiting Monterey Peninsula College |
| Sports Action Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Southwestern College-The Sun | Victoria Sanchez | Clearing every hurdle |
| Sports Action Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Ana College-el Don | Jessmarie Flores | Dons Soccer |
| Sports Action Photo | 2-Year Colleges | Los Angeles City College-City News | Cliff Cheng | Sparks Soar on Road to WNBA Championship Finals |
| Sports Action Photo | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Logan Embree | Baseball pitcher |
| Sports Action Photo | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Katie Cologna | Off the Line (bottom left) |
| Sports Action Photo | High Schools | Castro Valley High School-The Olympian | Young So | Terhell wrestles her way to the top |
| Sports Action Photo | High Schools | Castro Valley High School-The Olympian | Wailea Siler | Trojans build NCS winning streak |
| Photo Illustration | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Hannah Burnett | War Stories |
| Photo Illustration | 4-Year Universities | CSU Fullerton-Daily Titan | STAFF | CSUF in shock after Las Vegas Terrorist Attack |
| Photo Illustration | 4-Year Universities | CSU Bakersfield-The Runner | Scot Swan, Magdiel Carranza | Marathon overruns CSUB |
| Photo Illustration | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Aubrey Yeo | Freshman tennis standout Ena Shibahara follows tennis dream to Westwood |
| Photo Illustration | 2-Year Colleges | San Jose City College-The Times | Benjamin CastroV | Trump |
| Photo Illustration | 2-Year Colleges | Fresno City College-Rampage | Frank Lopez | Stranger Danger/Sexual Harrassment |
| Photo Illustration | 2-Year Colleges | Cuesta College-The Cuestonian | Alexander Bissell, Sameer Wahba | Make it rain |
| Photo Illustration | 2-Year Colleges | San Jose City College-The Times | Benjamin Castro | Classroom Etiquette |
| Photo Illustration | High Schools | Harvard-Westlake School-The Chronicle | Nicole Kim | Going out with a Bang: Does “Assassin” Trivialize Gun Violence? |
| Photo Illustration | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Katie Cologna, Savina Mahavni, Brayden Johnk | Hidden Realities |
| Photo Illustration | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Katie Cologna, Sabina Mahavni | To Pledge or Not to Pledge |
| Photo Illustration | High Schools | Harvard-Westlake School-The Chronicle | Nicole Kim Kristin Kuwada | A Whole New World |
| Illustration | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Harishwer Balasubramani | Sexual violence survivors share stories, promote discussion through #MeToo |
| Illustration | 4-Year Universities | UC Berkeley-The Daily Californian | Nishali Naik | Black girl magic |
| Illustration | 4-Year Universities | CSU Fullerton-Daily Titan | Hannah Miller | Homeless are stereotyped |
| Illustration | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | Juliette Le Saint | Film alumna works magic from behind the camera |
| Illustration | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Ana College-el Don | Christabelle Blake | Refugees Welcome |
| Illustration | 2-Year Colleges | Contra Costa College-The Advocate | Marci Suela | 11_BestIllustration_2 |
| Illustration | 2-Year Colleges | City College of San Francisco-The Guardsman | Quip Johnson | Muslim Ban |
| Illustration | 2-Year Colleges | Contra Costa College-The Advocate | Marci Suela | 11_BestIllustration_1 |
| Illustration | High Schools | Claremont High School-The Wolfpacket | Sean Castro | Senior Year Is the Best or the Worst |
| Illustration | High Schools | Harvard-Westlake School-The Chronicle | Anna Gong | Call for a ban on indifference |
| Illustration | High Schools | Granite Bay High School-The Gazette | Sidney Zabell | Empty Nest (dominant) |
| Illustration | High Schools | Claremont High School-The Wolfpacket | Andrea Calderon | CHS Students Should Take 1st Semester Finals Before Winter Break |
| Online General Excellence | 4-Year Universities | UCLA-Daily Bruin | ||
| Online General Excellence | 4-Year Universities | CSU Bakersfield-The Runner | ||
| Online General Excellence | 4-Year Universities | UC Berkeley-The Daily Californian | ||
| Online General Excellence | 4-Year Universities | CSU Chico-The Orion | ||
| Online General Excellence | 2-Year Colleges | Skyline College-The Skyline View | ||
| Online General Excellence | 2-Year Colleges | Southwestern College-The Sun | ||
| Online General Excellence | 2-Year Colleges | El Camino College-The Union | ||
| Online General Excellence | 2-Year Colleges | Santa Ana College-el Don | ||
| Online General Excellence | High Schools | Harvard-Westlake School-The Chronicle | ||
| Online General Excellence | High Schools | Castro Valley High School-The Olympian | ||
| Online General Excellence | High Schools | Bear River High School |