The Daily Illini wins second place in general excellence at ICPA

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The Daily Illini staff traveled to Chicago on Saturday for the Illinois College Press Association award ceremony.

By Karen Liu , Assistant News Editor

The Daily Illini won more than 20 awards, including second place in general excellence for daily collegiate newspapers and first place in online news site, at the Illinois College Press Association annual conference in Chicago this weekend.

Dozens of Illinois college newspapers attended the conference and more than 1,000 entries were submitted in the competition.

The Vidette from Illinois State University won first place in general excellence for daily collegiate newspaper.

Online

General excellence:

First place

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    Design

    Editorial cartoon: 

    Second place

    Front page layout: 

    Third place

    Feature page layout:

    First place

    Sports page layout:

    Honorable mention

    Creative works 

    Advertisement less than full page: 

    First place — Creative works staff

    Third place — Creative works staff

    In-house promotional ads:

    Honorable mention

    Advertising campaign

    First place — Creative works staff

    News

    News story:

    Third place

    Sports

    Sports news story: 

    Honorable mention

    Sports story: 

    First place

    Sports feature story:

    Honorable mention

    Sports column: 

    Honorable mention

    Second place

    Features 

    Features story:

    Honorable mention

    In-depth reporting

    Honorable mention

    Opinions

    Editorial:

    Second place

    Photo 

    Features photo: 

    Third place

    Spot news photo:

    Third place

    Second place

    Supplements

    Classified section:

    Third place

    Copy writing

    Headline writing:

    Third place

    Multimedia reporting

    First place

    Second place

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