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The Campus Times and La Verne Magazine have received top honors from both the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists for 2024-25, and 2025, respectively, plus numerous individual awards in the associations’ annual contests.

The Campus Times and La Verne Magazine have each won the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Medal award, the association’s top honor for overall journalism excellence – for college Newspaper/Online Hybrid, and college Magazine/Online Hybrid, respectively, for the 2024-25 academic year, the New York-based association announced late last month.

University of La Verne journalism students cleaned up in this year’s Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence awards – winning a total of nine awards, including seven awards for Campus Times staff writers, one for the La Verne Magazine, and one for the Foothill Community News broadcast – for work produced in 2023. 

The Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists honored Ben Camacho, a freelance documentary photographer, investigative journalist at KnockLA and University of La Verne alumnus, on Wednesday night at the association’s 47th annual Distinguished Journalist Awards event.

Nine students from the University of La Verne won seven Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence awards for work published and broadcast via the University’s student media outlets.

University of La Verne’s journalism students and recent alumni cleaned up in this year’s Society  of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence awards.