Antonio Rosado

SPJ South Florida partnered with the Florida College Press Association to present the 2011 FCPA Awards, the “Student Division” of the Sunshine State awards. And the winners are…

Best College Magazine

• First Place: Journey Magazine, Journey Magazine

The Society of Professional Journalistsis pleased to announce the Region 3 Mark of Excellence Award winners for the 2010 calendar year. SPJ Region 3 includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. This year, the contest received almost 4,000 entries across SPJ’s 12 regions.

Best Student Magazine
• First Place: Journey, Florida A&M University.
• Second Place: SCAN, Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta.
• Third Place: Orange & Blue, University of Florida.

Best Affiliated Web Site
• First Place: Journeymagonline.com – by Anamarie Shreeves, Florida A&M University.
• Second Place: The Vanguard’s website– by Rodney Thompson, University of South Alabama.
• Third Place: The Red & Black website – by The Red & Black staff, University of Georgia.

The SEJC competition included 331 entries from 33 schools in eight states—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee. FAMU students won the following SEJC awards:

Journey Magazine

 Second Place:  Best College Magazine

Second Place:  Best Magazine Page Layout Designer, Ashleigh Beverly of Tampa, Fla.

Third Place:       Best Multimedia Journalist, Kristen Swilley of Atlanta

Third Place:       Best Magazine Writer, Brandon Neasman of Wilmington, Del.

Fourth Place:    Best College Website

I was born in a small, country town in Southwest Florida, so small that people from that region of the world still don’t know it exists. And in that little corridor of American culture, cultural diversity wasn’t as commonplace as it is in other places; you were black, white or Mexican.

My mother, a black woman from Arcadia, Fla, and father, a Puerto Rican from Miami, birthed me on top of the fence of cultural identity. Cultural exploration didn’t happen in the rural areas where I grew up, so I had to decide if I wanted to be Antonio or Tony.

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(Source: journeymagonline.com)