Yellow Jacket (newspaper)

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The Yellow Jacket
Waynesburg University
Student produced since 1924
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TypeStudent Weekly Newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Waynesburg University
Founded1924
Headquarters51 W College St.
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania 15370
CityWaynesburg, Pa
CountryUnited States
Circulation 1,200 weekly
Website www.theyellowjacket.org
Free online archives https://issuu.com/wuyellowjacket

The Yellow Jacket is the student newspaper for Waynesburg University. The newspaper is produced entirely by Waynesburg University students and is incorporated into many classes within the university's Department of Communication. [1] The Yellow Jacket features news on campus and community news, student opinion, coverage of the Presidents' Athletic Conference sports teams, and other topics of student or faculty interest. The Yellow Jacket publishes weekly during the academic year in print [2] and online. [3] The newspaper has been published under the Yellow Jacket nameplate since 1924, though student newspapers at Waynesburg University (then Waynesburg College) date back to 1894. Federal Judge John Clark Knox served as the first student editor of the first student newspaper at Waynesburg College.

Waynesburg University private university

Waynesburg University is a private university founded in ca. 1850 and located in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. The university offers undergraduate and graduate programs in more than 70 academic concentrations, and enrolls over 2,500 students, including approximately 1,800 undergraduates.

Presidents Athletic Conference

The Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Of its nine current member schools, all private, liberal arts institutions of higher learning, eight are located in Western Pennsylvania, with the other in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, an area adjoining and historically tied to Western Pennsylvania. The conference's footprint will expand slightly into Appalachian Ohio in 2020.

The Yellow Jacket is a member of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association and is affiliated with the Waynesburg University student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

The Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association is a trade group serving newspapers in Pennsylvania. The PNA seeks to "advance the business interests of Pennsylvania news media companies" and protect the "free and independent press." It represents Pennsylvania newsmedia interests in the legislature, provides public educational services, and acts as an information clearinghouse.

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. It was established on April 17, 1909 at DePauw University, and its charter was designed by William Meharry Glenn.

Awards and nominations

The student staff of the Yellow Jacket has been recognized with over three dozen awards by the Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence competition and the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. In addition to individual or team awards, the newspaper has been recognized by SPJ with the Best All-Around Non-Daily Newspaper award in Region 4 twice (2004 and 2016) and a regional finalist in 2003, 2013, and 2014. [4] [5] [6] [7] In 2016, a team of student writers—Kimmi Baston, Anthony Conn, Teghan Simonton, and Mattie Winowitch—were named by SPJ as the National Winner in the In-Depth Reporting Category [8] for a series on opioid abuse in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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