Ball State student wins top columnist award

Former Ball State Daily News writer Derek Wilson has been named the best college newspaper columnist in the country by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, which cited his command of the facts along with “crisp writing and punchy leads.”

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The Mothers Day Story

This is the story of a family's loss and the love that helped them through the pain.

I told this during a radio broadcast from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Mothers Day in 2007, and people came up afterward to say thanks and talk about their ...

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Daily News, Ball Bearings win top SPJ awards

Staffers for the Ball State Daily News and for Ball Bearings, the DN's online partner in student media, today won Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Daily News Editor-in-Chief Vinnie Lopes, Jay Sowers, Jessi ...

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