The Collegiate Times has been named as a finalist in two prestigious Associated Collegiate Press awards.

collegiatetimes.com is again a finalist for the ACP Online Pacemaker, the highest national honor in collegiate online journalism. http://bit.ly/mB4eMu The Collegiate Times is in the running in the Online Pacemaker category for schools with 20,000 or more enrollment, the most competitive category.

Zach Crizer’s spring 2011 story, Ex-felon moves forward, is a finalist for ACP’s Story of the Year. http://bit.ly/qlASq1 Crizer’s compelling reporting about Lars Peterson’s journey to graduation can be read online here:

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/17378/ex-felon-moves-forward

Crizer is the 2011-12 editor in chief of the Collegiate Times. He is a senior majoring in Communication who is from Midlothian Va. He recently completed an internship at the New York Post.

The Associated Collegiate Press award winners will be announced at the National College Media Convention in Orlando October 26 – 30, 2011.

The Collegiate Times, the student newspaper at Virginia Tech, is one of seven student media organizations under the umbrella of the Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech, Inc. providing educational, co-curricular student activity services and mass media to the university community.

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Kelly Wolff, general manager of Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech
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