The Scene earns 17 awards in state contest

The Scene student newspaper at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park won 17 awards in this year’s Missouri College Media Association contest. Announcements were live-streamed April 9 on Facebook.

The MCMA is an association of student newspapers and other media at colleges and universities in the state of Missouri. The Scene competes in Division 4 with other community colleges.

Maddox
Maddox

“We are particularly proud of these awards, considering The Scene operated from March through December with a skeleton staff, which sometimes worked virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Faculty Adviser Teri Maddox.

The Scene shut out competition in the News Writing category, which is a very important category, winning all of the top three awards.

One silver lining to the pandemic has been increased readership on The Scene’s website, which helped keep students, faculty and staff informed while campus was closed. That website, by the way, won a first-place award in the MCMA contest.

“I would encourage people to ‘like’ our Facebook page (@thesceneforestpark) to receive notices that new issues have been delivered to newsstands and posted online,” Maddox said.

Here is the list of awards:

NEWS WRITING

First place: Joshua Phelps for “Restaurants on Oakland”

Second place: Ethan Tutor for “Tower demolition”

Third place: Mackenzie Gregory for “Where have all the trees gone?”

FEATURE WRITING

Honorable mention: Caasan Whitney for “Cooking with COVID”

REGULAR COLUMN

First place: Jordan Barber for “College during a pandemic”

ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW

Second place: Jordan Barber for “Underground the movie”

NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

First place: Larry Cox for “Tree stumps”

Second place: Markell Tompkins for “Voter registration”

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY

Second place: Caasan Whitney for “Quiet kitchen”

Third place: Caasan Whitney for “Masked model”

Honorable mention: Caasan Whitney for “Dental hygiene”

NON-POLITICAL/ENTERTAINMENT CARTOON

First place: Larry Cox for “Math test”

PHOTO PAGE

First place: Katelyn Clancy, Markell Tompkins and Joshua Phelps for “Countdown to demolition”
Third place: Katelyn Clancy, Larry Cox, Markell Tompkins and Angelica Woody for “Day in the life”

WEBSITE

First place: Victor Paletta for “The Scene”

SWEEPSTAKES

(Awards weighted and combined)

Third place

BEST OVERALL NEWSPAPER

Third place