Five Advance-Titan staff members earned national awards in the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) Clips and Clicks contest for fall 2023. 

Anya Kelley, then news editor, earned second place for her editorial, “It’s time to support student free press,” while Kelley and Josh Lehner, then assistant news editor, earned third-place honors for their news article, “Staff layoffs stun campus.” This semester, Kelley is editor-in-chief and Lehner is news editor.

Managing Editor Kelly Hueckman earned fifth-place honors for her column, “Protect our access campuses.”

Earning honorable mentions were Katie Pulvermacher, then editor-in-chief, for her story “Fond du Lac access campus set to close in June 2024,” and Mattie Beck, then arts and entertainment editor, for “From last place to national champion,” a sports story profiling the success of gymnastics coach Lauren Karnitz. Both Pulvermacher and Beck graduated in January 2024.

Advance-Titan Adviser Barbara Benish said this is the first time she has entered the UWO newspaper into the national competition. “Our reporters and editors did an outstanding job covering UW Oshkosh’s $18 million deficit and the accompanying changes caused by that deficit,” she said, adding that 60% of their winning entries were about UWO’s financial situation. “I felt that the staff deserved the recognition for a job well done.”

More than 560 entries were submitted for the contest, according to Gary Lundgren, associate director of ACP.