The Rampage Bags Journalism Awards

The Fresno City College Rampage staff won several awards at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges NorCal conference at De Anza College in Cupertino on Oct. 21.

The Rampage won a total of 14 awards, including general excellence and an honorable mention for editorial writing.

Work sent in from the spring 2017 semester also won awards in news story, editorial cartoon, profile feature, webcast/broadcast news and sports action photo categories.

Opinion Editor Frank Lopez won second place in the feature profile category for “9/11 Responder Spreads Message of Love and Hope” and Editor-in-Chief Ashleigh Panoo won fourth place in the same category for “The Revival of Ruby Red.”

News Editor Samantha Domingo won second place in news writing for “Campus After Hours: Do Students Feel Safe?”  and first place in webcast/broadcast news along with Art Director Ramuel Reyes and Opinion Editor Frank Lopez for their video “The Parking Problem.”

Former Broadcast Editor Larry Valenzuela was awarded third place in the sports action photo category for his Fight for Water boxing match photo.

Rampage staff also participated and won in on-the-spot competitions at the conference, with Opinion Editor Frank Lopez receiving an honorable mention for his editorial cartoon, Editor-in-chief Ashleigh Panoo winning fourth place in news writing, reporter Seth Casey winning first place in news writing, and Art Director Ramuel Reyes winning first place in news photo.

”I’m very proud of what my students accomplish year after year,” said Dympna Ugwu-Oju, adviser of The Rampage. “It just tells me we’re doing something right.”