The Lamp won the top staff award and 10 other individual journalism awards at a recent statewide competition.

The awards were presented April 8 during the Illinois Community College Journalism Association conference held at Harold Washington College in Chicago.

This is the second year in a row that Lamp staff won first place in the Mike Foster General Excellence Award. The Lamp’s editor is Madison Mings of Springfield, print editor is Isaac Warren of Springfield and online editor is Teresa Brummett of Salisbury. “We have a great group of people, each putting out great work,” said Tim McKenzie, assistant professor of journalism and humanities and The Lamp advisor. “A newspaper requires a lot of contributors, many working behind the scenes. This award reflects on how everyone is doing a great job, especially our editors.” 

The judges said The Lamp had “a very ‘newsy’ paper with solid reporting/married to great photography.”

Other awards included:
Lukas Myers of Taylorville won second place for Reporter of the Year.
Ryan Mazrim of Springfield won second place awards for news photo, sports photo and news story, and honorable mention for feature photo.
T’Ericka Stelivan of Springfield won second place for news column.
Stelivan, along with Nathanael Herbert of Woodson and Kaylie Horrer of Springfield won second place for news story of the year, for reporting on issues related to domestic abuse.
Second place awards also went to Teresa Brummett for feature writing, Tyler Allison of Springfield for headline writing and Ryan Wilson of Auburn for sports news writing.

More information on The Lamp is available by emailing timothy.mckenzie@llcc.edu or calling 217.786-4656.