STILLWATER – Members of Northern Oklahoma College’s student newspaper, The Maverick, won five individual award for writing and photography at the Oklahoma Collegiate Press Association annual spring conference.
The conference is hosted each April by the Paul Miller School of Journalism on the campus of Oklahoma State University.
Sports editor Tony Hines and reporter Jessica Bittner won multiple awards.
Hines, a freshman from Perkins, won second place in Feature Photography and earned honorable mention in Feature Writing. Bittner, a sophomore, won second pace in Feature Writing and earned honorable mention in Feature Writing.
Sophomore Jesse Bussey won second place in Feature Writing.
As an overall publication, The Maverick won an Award of Merit, the second highest rating given by conference judges.
Advisers from the Kansas Collegiate Press Association judged the contest. All of Northern’s entries were produced during the fall 2007 semester.
Elizabeth Golliver, a freshman from Agra, was editor of The Maverick during that semester. Kelly S. Wray is The Maverick faculty adviser.
