Eight journalism students from the University of Louisiana at Â鶹´«Ã½app won a total of nine awards at the Southeast Journalism Conference annual convention in Hammond this weekend.
Diane Pantaleo, a senior from Â鶹´«Ã½app, placed seventh in the Best in the South annual competition in the Best News Reporter Category. She also won first place in the news rewrite category in the on-site competition at the convention.
Other on-site winners were: Nick Fontenot, junior from Â鶹´«Ã½app, first place in sportswriting; Amanda Burleigh, senior from New Roads, second place in feature writing; Zane Hill, a junior from Kent, Ohio, second place in current events; Blair Bordelon, a junior from Harvey, second place in journalism essay writing; Nicole Rogers, senior from Mandeville, third place in news reporting; Alison Moon, junior from Scott, honorable mention in photography; and Lexie Iskander, senior from Â鶹´«Ã½app, honorable mention in editorial writing.
Twenty-two schools from eight states attended the convention, 18 of which participated in the on-site competition. Using the point system, UL Â鶹´«Ã½app placed second overall in the on-site competition, behind the University of West Florida.
Fifteen UL Â鶹´«Ã½app students attended the convention with the faculty delegate, Robert Buckman. Moon, editor of The Vermilion, the UL Â鶹´«Ã½app student newspaper, is an English major; Iskander is a general studies major; the others are journalism majors.