The Daily Cal staff picked up three more awards this week from the Society of Professional Journalists. The awards are for the Region 11 Mark of Excellence Awards.

Victoria Tang – 1st place – Editorial Writing

Jon Doss – 1st place – Sports Columns

Daily Cal staff – 3rd place – Best Overall Student Newspaper

Region 11 covers California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, and believe it or not, Guam and the Mariana Islands. Because they won 1st place, both Victoria and Jon will advance to the national competition.

A national and a state college media association honored The Daily Californian staff this weekend with 33 awards at a convention in San Diego. In addition to being recognized as having one of the best newspapers and Web sites in the state and country, Daily Cal staff received dozens of awards in individual categories from the Associated Collegiate Press and the California College Media Association.

This includes 10 first place finishes, and sweeping of three categories (headline package, cartoons, and sports columns). The Daily Cal staff won nearly twice as many awards as any other newspaper.

The CCMA awards are statewide. The ACP awards are against nationwide schools that attended the conference.

Even when the Daily Cal has hit a difficult financial crisis, the student staff members have continued the legacy of excellence that the community has come to expect from the Daily Cal.

For more information, please contact Bryan Thomas at (510) 548-8300 or editor@dailycal.org.

The full award list follows.

Associated Collegiate Press
3rd place – Best in Show 4-year Daily Newspaper
2nd place – Best in Show Newspaper Web site
2nd place – Best in Show Interactive Multimedia Element – Nathan Yan

California College Media Association
2nd place – General Excellence
1st place – Online General Excellence
2nd place – Overall Design
1st place – Back to School/Orientation Special Issue
2nd place – Best Special Section – Election Issue
1st place – News Feature – Kevin Leahy “A Friendship Derailed”
2nd place – Editorial – “Keep trimming”
2nd place – Personal Opinion – Kristine DeGuzman
2nd place – A&E Review – Christine Borden
3rd place – A&E Review – Rajesh Srinivasan
1st place – A&E Column – Louis Peitzman
3rd place – A&E Column – Robert Bergin
3rd place – Sports Story – Ryan Gorcey
1st place – Sports Column – Matt Kawahara
2nd place – Sports Column – Steven Dunst
3rd place – Sports Column – Ryan Gorcey
1st place – News Photo – Anna Hiatt
3rd place – News Photo – Alex Smith
3rd place – Sports Photo – Salgu Wissmath
2nd place – Feature Photo – Skyler Reid
1st place – Sports Page Design – Annie Shen
1st place – Feature Page Design – Samantha Truppi
2nd place – Feature Page Design – Bharath Ganesh
1st place – Headline Portfolio – Matt Kawahara
2nd place – Headline Portfolio – Louis Peitzman
3rd place – Headline Portfolio – Stefanie Lee
1st place – Best Cartoon – Gretchen Faust
2nd place – Best Cartoon – Leslie Tseng
3rd place – Best Cartoon – Eric Wong
3rd place – Breaking News Online