NASHVILLE — In its ninth year, the Baptist Press (BP) Collegiate Journalism Conference drew contest entries from 20 colleges and universities as nearly 100 awards were distributed, including the President’s Award for Excellence in Student Journalism.
The awards presentation, streamed online for the first time from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., Oct. 29, recognized students mostly from Baptist-affiliated schools after more than 500 of their entries were judged by nearly 20 professional journalists.
Before the presentation, students and faculty members from more than a dozen schools interacted with two featured speakers by submitting questions via Twitter.
Jennifer Rash, managing editor of The Alabama Baptist, told students that Christian journalists should excel at their work and give nonbelievers reason to consider the gospel, and Gary Fong, founder of the Genesis Photo Agency, encouraged students to be prayerful in all things, because “sometimes God will have things happen before you.”
In years past, BP has hosted the conference in Nashville. In a different format this year, Union hosted the conference in its television studio and broadcast the speakers and the awards presentation online.
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