The Voice lands recognition at media conference

By Lilly Kujawski | Editor
and
Asia Rahman | Graphic Designer

The Washtenaw Voice team brought home 11 awards from the Michigan Community College Press Association conference and award luncheon.

The conference took place on April 6 at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, and included a morning with a keynote speech and journalism workshop sessions, in which The Voice team participated, along with other student newspaper teams from community colleges across the state.

CMU President Robert Davies attended to welcome students. He stressed the importance of a journalist’s role, congratulating attendees for their desire to seek the truth and report it.

John Bebow, CEO of Bridge Magazine, was the keynote speaker for the event and had some words of encouragement to offer student journalists, in a time when many say print is dying.

“Journalism isn’t dying,” Bebow said. “It’s just changing.”

He encouraged students to “refuse to be denied” when applying for jobs, adding that as an employer, persistence is what sticks out to him.

In one of his workshops, photojournalist Jake May said photographers and journalists should work to make people comfortable, develop a meaningful relationship over time and be patient along the way. He spoke of the need to capture life through photography when covering a story—including what happens before, during and after an event.

“Everything we know about the world or history is through storytelling,” May said.

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