Local student Emily Pettinger receives Excellence in Journalism Award from Milwaukee Press Club

MILWAUKEE, WI (04/24/2012)(readMedia)-- Emily Pettinger, a Marquette University student, received accolades for best single feature for her piece "Imprisoned: An alum's tale of captivity, faith and endurance," which appeared in the Marquette Journal. Pettinger is a junior journalism major in the College of Communication and is from Naperville, IL.

The Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism awards garnered more than 500 entries from throughout Wisconsin and was judged by 25 professional journalists from press clubs throughout the U.S. Pettinger was one of 20 Marquette students who won awards.

The Milwaukee Press Club provides professional development to members of the press community in Milwaukee and Wisconsin as a whole.

Marquette Student Media encourages students to get real-world experience while they are still in college and gives students an opportunity to write, design, produce, and sell through a variety of written, online, television and radio communication channels.

Steve Byers, director of student media, said of the awards: "Marquette student media is accustomed to winning awards, but these are special. For the first time, we have won awards for exclusively on-line material. We also won significantly more awards than usual, and I'm excited to see that we won awards for every branch of student media -- the Tribune, the Journal, MUTV, MU Radio and our Student Media Online."

All students will be honored, but they will not know if they receive gold, silver or bronze until the final results are announced at the Gridiron Awards Dinner on May 18. For more information about Marquette Student Media, visit http://go.mu.edu/mustudentmedia.