{"id":53570,"date":"2025-11-20T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53570\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:27:08","slug":"eckerd-college-students-earn-eight-prestigious-college-media-association-pinnacle-awards-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53570\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckerd College students earn eight prestigious College Media Association Pinnacle Awards – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alejandra L\u00f3pez Rueda, a senior animal studies and biology student from Coyoac\u00e1n, Mexico, took first place in the breaking news category for her story \u201cEckerd Community Cautiously Optimistic After State Park Plan Shelved<\/a>,\u201d and seniors Lexi Holland and Jessie Lotze shared a first-place award for best magazine cover, the May edition of CAT. 5. Lexi, who designed the cover, is an animal studies student from Scottsburg, Indiana, while Jessie, who took the photograph, is an ancient studies and visual arts student from Sandpoint, Idaho.<\/p>\n

The theme of the CAT. 5 cover was The Identity Issue, and the stories inside explored \u201cWhat makes you, you.\u201d Lexi says she and Jessie wanted to illustrate a topic that can be hard to deal with and difficult to talk about. \u201cThis [the cover] turned into my baby,\u201d Lexi says. \u201cAnd it\u2019s insane to have it recognized. It gives me such a great avenue to pursue design, something I never thought I\u2019d be able to do. The first cover I did was in the fall of 2024, and it was horrible. But I have so many copies of this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tida Bagby, a senior visual arts student from Inlet Beach, Florida, took second place in editorial illustration; and Donovan Snell, a senior ancient studies and animal studies student from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, placed third in the general news photo category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alejandra L\u00f3pez Rueda, a senior animal studies and biology student from Coyoac\u00e1n, Mexico, took first place in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-53570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}