The Daily Bruin won 21 awards at the Associated Collegiate Press Spring National College Media Conference in San Francisco on March 7.

The Bruin won the ACP Online Pacemaker for its website for the eighth consecutive year. The award recognizes overall excellence in collegiate newspaper websites.

The Bruin was also recognized as the Best Newspaper Website by the California College Media Association and took the third place CCMA award for Best Newspaper.

Assistant Photo Editor Aidan Sun won the CCMA award for Best Sports Photo for his photo of sophomore wide receiver Kwazi Gilmer diving to score during UCLA football’s win over Penn State, and Photo staffer Brianna Carlson won the CCMA award for Best Magazine Photo for a portrait of activist Donald Kilhefner.

Illustrations and Cartoons staffer Elisabeth Park won Best Editorial Cartoon for “In a fight between whales, the shrimp’s back gets broken.” Data and Graphics staffers Liam McGlynn and Chloe Kim and Graphics Editor Noah Hrung won Best Interactive Graphic for “Beyond the Dining Hall: A Data-Driven Look at UCLA’s Food Trucks.”

Several pieces were recognized in the ACP Best of Show category, which recognizes work from the current academic year. Assistant Design Director Rachel Kristen Lee Yokota won first place in the Newspaper Front Page category for “Two Schools, One City.“

Editor-in-Chief Dylan Winward said the awards were a testament to the Daily Bruin staff’s diligence and the high standard The Bruin holds itself to.

“The Bruin prides itself on being a teaching organization, providing training for students who may not have had journalism experience before,” Winward said. “The awards that we have received act as recognition of learning for our awardees and our newsroom.”

See the following list for all the awards The Bruin received:

ACP Pacemaker

• Online pacemaker: Daily Bruin staff

California College Media Association

• First place, Best Newspaper Website: Daily Bruin staff
• First place, Best Magazine Photo: Liberation Left Untold by Brianna Carlson
• First place, Best Sports Photo: UCLA football upsets Penn State in first season win by Aidan Sun
• First place, Best Editorial Cartoon: In a fight between whales, the shrimp’s back gets broken by Elisabeth Park
• First place, Best Interactive Graphic: Beyond the Dining Hall: A Data-Driven Look at UCLA’s Food Trucks by Noah Hrung, Liam McGlynn and Chloe Kim
• Second place, Best Magazine Story: After the Fire by Sam Mulick
• Second place, Best Illustration: Offering empathy, patience for future self can overcome pressure to ‘be enough’ by Kaylen Ho
• Second place, Best Infographic: UCLA Food Trucks Inactive by the 2024-25 Academic Year by Noah Hrung
• Second place, Best Headline Portfolio: Natalie Canalis
• Second place, Best Overall Newspaper Design: Daily Bruin staff
• Second place, Best Arts and Entertainment Story: Theatre Palisades continues legacy of community, creativity after LA County fires by Warren Riley
• Second place, Best Feature: From floods to power failures, UCLA’s trouble call workers manage campus crises by Amanda Velasco
• Second place, Best News Series: In Plain Sight by Maggie Konecky, Amanda Velasco, Alisha Hassanali and Anna Dai-Liu
• Third place, Best Newspaper Front Page Design: Two Schools, One City by Rachel Kristen Lee Yokota
• Third place, Best Podcast: Bruin to Bruin: Megan Mullin on the growing polarization in environmental politics by Megan Vahdat
• Third place, Best Newspaper: Daily Bruin staff

ACP Best of Show

• First place, Newspaper Front Page: Two Schools, One City by Rachel Kristen Lee Yokota
• Second place, Broadcast Sports Video: UCLA gymnastics victory over Washington by Malaika Fawzi
• Third place, News Reporting & Writing: Former UCLA EDI official says he was terminated over Charlie Kirk posts by Amanda Velasco
• Fifth place, Sports Story: UCLA men’s basketball upsets No. 4 Purdue, stays undefeated at home by Connor Dullinger