{"id":16796,"date":"2019-09-13T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=16796"},"modified":"2020-08-18T11:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T15:37:47","slug":"acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"ACP Selects The Reporter As Pacemaker Finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Reporter<\/em> has been selected as a 2019 Pacemaker finalist by the Associated College Press<\/span><\/a> in the two-year college newspaper category.<\/p>\n

Pacemakers are regarded as the top national award for college newspapers\u2014the Pulitzer Prize of student journalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a culmination of all our hard work,\u201d said Christian Alexander Ortega, who served as the paper\u2019s editor-in-chief last school year. \u201cWe worked tirelessly to maintain the newspaper\u2019s high quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nine finalists were named in the two-year college newspaper category. Newspapers are judged based on the quality of writing, reporting, design, multimedia and illustrations.<\/p>\n

Entries are based on content produced during the 2018-19 school year. The winners are announced at the National College Media Convention on Nov. 2 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

The Reporter<\/em><\/span><\/a> was created in 2010. It features 16 pages, prints on a biweekly schedule, has a circulation of 10,250 per print cycle, and is augmented by a website with video and audio content.<\/p>\n

This marks the fourth time the paper has been selected as a Pacemaker finalist. The Reporter<\/em> won the award in 2013 and 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Reporter has been selected as a 2019 Pacemaker finalist by the Associated College Press in the two-year college newspaper category. Pacemakers are regarded as the top national award for college newspapers\u2014the Pulitzer Prize of student journalism. \u201cThis is a culmination of all our hard work,\u201d said Christian Alexander Ortega, who served as the paper\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":21526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[44,150,155,1020,1166,1167],"class_list":{"0":"post-16796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefing","8":"tag-the-reporter","9":"tag-journalism","10":"tag-pacemaker","11":"tag-newspaper","12":"tag-acp","13":"tag-student-journalists"},"yoast_head":"\nACP Selects The Reporter As A Pacemaker Finalist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Reporter has been selected as a 2019 Pacemaker finalist by the Associated College Press in the two-year college newspaper category.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ACP Selects The Reporter As A Pacemaker Finalist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Reporter has been selected as a 2019 Pacemaker finalist by the Associated College Press in the two-year college newspaper category.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-13T17:37:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-18T15:37:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Reporter_staff.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Heidi Perez\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Heidi Perez\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Heidi Perez\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f52bdcda8eee39b9c8967c0cfce8826a\"},\"headline\":\"ACP Selects The Reporter As Pacemaker Finalist\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-13T17:37:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-18T15:37:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":179,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Reporter_staff.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"The Reporter\",\"Journalism\",\"Pacemaker\",\"newspaper\",\"ACP\",\"student journalists\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Briefing\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/\",\"name\":\"ACP Selects The Reporter As A Pacemaker Finalist\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Reporter_staff.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-13T17:37:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-18T15:37:47+00:00\",\"description\":\"The Reporter has been selected as a 2019 Pacemaker finalist by the Associated College Press in the two-year college newspaper category.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Reporter_staff.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/09\\\/Reporter_staff.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Pictured here is the editorial staff for the 2018-2019 volume of The Reporter. The paper was named top student newspaper at the 2019 FCSPA conference for the eighth straight year. PHOTO COURTESY OF CRISTIAN LAZZARI MDC MEDIA RELATIONS\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ACP Selects The Reporter As Pacemaker Finalist\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"MDC The Reporter\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/08\\\/R_reporter_logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/08\\\/R_reporter_logo.png\",\"width\":315,\"height\":309,\"caption\":\"MDC The Reporter\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f52bdcda8eee39b9c8967c0cfce8826a\",\"name\":\"Heidi Perez\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/09\\\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png\",\"caption\":\"Heidi Perez\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mdcthereporter.com\\\/staging\\\/8357\\\/author\\\/heidi-perez\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ACP Selects The Reporter As A Pacemaker Finalist","description":"The Reporter has been selected as a 2019 Pacemaker finalist by the Associated College Press in the two-year college newspaper category.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ACP Selects The Reporter As A Pacemaker Finalist","og_description":"The Reporter has been selected as a 2019 Pacemaker finalist by the Associated College Press in the two-year college newspaper category.","og_url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/","og_site_name":"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College","article_published_time":"2019-09-13T17:37:15+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-08-18T15:37:47+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Reporter_staff.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Heidi Perez","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Heidi Perez","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/"},"author":{"name":"Heidi Perez","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f52bdcda8eee39b9c8967c0cfce8826a"},"headline":"ACP Selects The Reporter As Pacemaker Finalist","datePublished":"2019-09-13T17:37:15+00:00","dateModified":"2020-08-18T15:37:47+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/"},"wordCount":179,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Reporter_staff.jpg","keywords":["The Reporter","Journalism","Pacemaker","newspaper","ACP","student journalists"],"articleSection":["Briefing"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/","name":"ACP Selects The Reporter As A Pacemaker Finalist","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Reporter_staff.jpg","datePublished":"2019-09-13T17:37:15+00:00","dateModified":"2020-08-18T15:37:47+00:00","description":"The Reporter has been selected as a 2019 Pacemaker finalist by the Associated College Press in the two-year college newspaper category.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Reporter_staff.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Reporter_staff.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"caption":"R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Pictured here is the editorial staff for the 2018-2019 volume of The Reporter. The paper was named top student newspaper at the 2019 FCSPA conference for the eighth straight year. PHOTO COURTESY OF CRISTIAN LAZZARI MDC MEDIA RELATIONS"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/acp-selects-the-reporter-as-pacemaker-finalist\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ACP Selects The Reporter As Pacemaker Finalist"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/","name":"The Reporter: The Student Newspaper at Miami Dade College","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/#organization","name":"MDC The Reporter","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/R_reporter_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/R_reporter_logo.png","width":315,"height":309,"caption":"MDC The Reporter"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f52bdcda8eee39b9c8967c0cfce8826a","name":"Heidi Perez","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png","url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/R_reporter_logo-1-1-125x125.png","caption":"Heidi Perez"},"url":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/author\/heidi-perez\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"PHOTO COURTESY OF CRISTIAN LAZZARI MDC MEDIA RELATIONS","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}