Credit: Alex Drummer | Managing Editor for Content and Amanda Vaughn | News Director
For the sixth year in a row, The Lantern received the Frank E. Deaner Award for Excellence in Collegiate Journalism, Division A, from the Ohio Newspaper Association. The award goes to the college newspaper that the ONA deems to be the top paper in Ohio.
Other awards that The Lantern and its staff won are as follows:
- First place for in-depth reporting – Liz Young, Michele Theodore, Chelsea Spears, Madison Curtis
- Booze, books and the balance: How does alcohol play into the college culture
- Booze, books and the balance: When drinking goes too far
- Booze, books and the balance: Businesses, bars near campus rake in big bucks
- Booze, books and the balance: Past and present, alcohol is a constant in Ohio State’s culture
- First place for design – Lantern staff
- Second place for news coverage – Lantern staff
- Second place for best website – Lantern staff
- Second place for best multimedia package – Hayden Grove
- Third place for best multimedia package – Franz Ross
- Third place for headline writing – Lantern staff
- Third place for photojournalism – Mark Batke and Yann Schreiber
- Third place for sports coverage – Lantern staff
- Third place for arts and entertainment: Nick Roll, Jon McAllister and Denise Blough
Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the organizational name of the Ohio Newspaper Association.
