The Daily Pennsylvanian Alumni Association

For the third year in a row, The Daily Pennsylvanian has won the prestigious Gold Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association as one of the nation’s top college news organizations.

The Crown Awards honor top student publications chosen from CSPA’s members. Crowns are selected for overall excellence in a head-to-head comparison. During Crown consideration, publications are judged on their excellence as shown by their design, photography, concept, coverage and writing. A total of 852 publications were eligible for judging in eight categories.

The DP was honored in the Hybrid News category, which includes print and digital work. The only other Gold Crown Award winners in the category were the Oklahoma Daily at the University of Oklahoma and The Columbia Chronicle at Columbia College Chicago.

A complete list of award winners is available at https://cspa.columbia.edu/recepient-lists/2021-awards-student-work-crown-awards-collegiate-recipients. 

Jessica Goodman (’12), alum of the DP, is releasing another highly anticipated YA novel!

From EW: “Jessica Goodman is having a very good book year: She released her debut novel, They Wish They Were Us, last summer, and it’s currently in the works as an HBO Max adaptation starring Halsey and Euphoria‘s Sydney Sweeney. Now, she’s gearing up to release her sophomore work. They’ll Never Catch Us, another fast-paced YA thriller, will hit shelves on July 27.” Read more about it from Entertainment Weekly here.