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Student journalists at Clackamas Community College won 13 awards in the 2025 Oregon Collegiate Newspaper Contest.

Among the awards were first-place prizes for photography, headline writing and website.

Students from “The Clackamas Print,” the student media organization at CCC, also won awards in the two-year school category for their feature writing, spot news photography and house ads.

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

Quinton Prudhomme, a co-editor-in-chief for the Print, won two awards for photography for work he did 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 leads a team of student journalists with co-editor-in-chief Evan Tichenor.

Tichenor 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.”

The awards were presented by the Oregon Newspapers Foundation at the annual Collegiate Day held May 2 at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Ore.

Dozens of students from Oregon colleges and universities took part in the awards presentation.

For more information on journalism at CCC, contact Melissa Jones at melissaj@clackamas.edu or visit TheClackamasPrint.com.