Clackamas Print’s student journalists win 13 awards

May 16, 2025

Laura Southers

staff writer

“The Clackamas Print” won 13 awards in the 2025 Collegiate Newspaper Contest.

CCC’s student journalists won five first place awards for best headline writing, best website, best sports photo. The Print’s “best website” has won a first place award the past several years.

The awards were presented by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association at Linn-Benton Community College on May 2. Dozens of students from Oregon colleges and universities took part in the awards presentation.

Three professional journalists gave talks to students about working in the industry.

Carlos Rodriguez-Picazo, a visuals editor, won best sports photo for a photo of a fisherman along the Clackamas River.

Second place awards were for best design, best house ad, best headline writing, and best spot news photo. Two second place awards were won by Gabriel Lucich who graduated from CCC last year.

Quinton Prudhomme, a co-editor-in-chief for the Print, won two awards for photography at pro-Palestinian protests at Portland State University in spring 2024. He called the protest an intense scenario where he had to “carefully maneuver taking pictures where people really did not like their picture being taken.”

Prudhomme said a counter protester “tried to run over a bunch of protesters and hopped out of his car and started pepper spraying people. I got some pepper spray in my eyes. Not fun, very scary.”

Prudhomme also won a third place award for best news story about the college’s theater program. “It means a lot,” said Prudhomme. “I put a lot of effort into ‘The Print,’ so it feels good to win.”

Evan Tichenor, co-editor-in-chief, said, “I’m making sure work is getting done, and if not, making sure people have what they need. I expect us to win more than 13 awards next year.”