UC Students Win Journalism Awards
Tabasco, Riecker Take First Place Honors
For the second year in a row, two Utica College student newspaper writers won Syracuse Press Club awards for their published works. Writers Kaitlyn Tambasco and Kyle Riecker took home the prestigious awards, for their work on UC’s student paper, The Tangerine, finishing ahead of Syracuse University’s Daily Orange.
Tambasco’s story, which won first place in the college print news category, made effective use of photos and storytelling to display the segregation between groups of students in the Utica College Dining Commons. Riecker’s story, winning first place in the college print feature story category, picturesquely described the events of a bridge collapse in Newport, on the day of a baseball game, that had ballplayers and citizens alike working together to help each other safely back to shore.
Both were honored at the SPC’s annual awards ceremony May 5 at the Genesee Grande Hotel in Syracuse. Program host Molly Matott said there were more than 300 entries from professional and student journalists.
“There were a number of good stories which made judging a challenge,” Matott said. “Tambasco’s story emerged as the winner in part because it provided an in-depth look at photos posted by students to make a point of how white and black students usually eat with friends of the same race and how it provided an impetus for a campus wide discussion on race.”
According to the judges’ comments, Riecker’s story “captures the history of a local bridge collapse and holds the reader until the end. Well written with good details and descriptions. Photos help capture what happened on that fateful day.”
To view the stories, visit the Utica College Tangerine website at uctangerine.com.
About Utica College – Utica College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive private institution offering bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls more than 5,000 students in 42 undergraduate majors, 36 minors, 20 graduate programs and a number of pre-professional and special programs. For more information, visit www.utica.edu.
