Reporter magazine, RIT's weekly student publication, captured third prize in the Associated Collegiate Press Feature/Special Audience Magazine category. Judges awarded prizes based on design, photography, overall appearance and writing/content.

Jeff Prystajko, Reporter editor and third-year information technology student, notes that the award was especially gratifying because the first- and second-place awards were given to annual and biannual publications, respectively.

The team won for the overall appearance of the Sept. 20 issue they submitted. Reporter, in its 91st year of publication, is the only full-color weekly student publication in the nation with this distinction.

In another victory, Reporter was one of only eight winners of the 2000 National Online Pacemaker Award for online publications.

"The Pacemaker Award is the Pulitzer Prize of college newspaper journalism," says Rich Trifeletti, Reporter"s online editor. The online edition was launched last summer and can be found on the Web at www.ReporterMag.com.