The Ithacan was presented with a Gold Crown Award, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's highest recognition of overall excellence, on March 13 at the spring National College Media Convention at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel in New York City.
The 2016 award was for work produced during the 2014–15 academic year (Jack Curran ’15, editor in chief). The award was in the "Hybrid" category, described as "a publication that works to combine their digital and print publications as one."
The Ithacan has won the Gold Crown in the Hybrid category every year since it was created in 2013. Prior to that the paper consistently won Crown Awards in the separate Newspaper and Online categories. This year it was one of only three publications in the country to win the Crown Award in its category. The others were the Indiana Daily Student (Indiana University) and The Los Angeles Loyola (Loyola Marymount University).
Founded in 1925, the CSPA is owned by Columbia University and operated as a program affiliated with the Graduate School of Journalism. The Crown Awards were first presented in 1982.
[In photo, from left: Managing Editor Evan Sobkowicz ’17, Life & Culture Editor Celisa Calacal ’18, Editor in Chief Kira Maddox ’16, CSPA Executive Director Edmund Sullivan, Assistant News Editor Sophia Tulp ’19, Proofreader Ben Gaynor ’17 and Opinion Editor Kayla Dwyer ’17. Photo by Rebecca Castillo.]
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