Glendale Community College’s literary magazine, The Traveler, and student newspaper, The Voice, were both recognized with Best of Show Awards at this year’s Associ-ated Collegiate Press/College Media Business and Advertising Managers Midwinter College Journalism Convention in San Francisco, California, Feb. 29.

GCC’s Traveler Magazine finished first place in the Literacy Arts Magazine category, and The Voice received a ninth place (Honorary Mention) for general excellence among two-year college newspapers and magazines.

GCC journalism faculty and adviser Jenna Duncan and five GCC students - Michael Manny, Leo Rocha, Makayla O’Bannon, Michelle Smith and Marissa Thomas - were in attendance to accept the awards.

The conference, which ran Feb. 27-29, gave GCC journalism students the opportunity to network with other college editors, reporters and advisers from around the country. Journalism, public relations and media business professionals presented workshops, panel discussions and keynote speeches on topics ranging from photojournalism, leadership, podcasting, interviewing, social media marketing, internships and reporting.

At the conference, several keynote speakers highlighted the long weekend. Mother Jones CEO and president Monika Bauerline discussed five habits that journalism needs to break, and five it must keep. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Kevin Fagan and photojournalist Brant Ward talked about their coverage of homelessness in the Bay Area over the last three decades. A panel from the East Bay Times, Julia Prodis Sulek, David DeBolt, Thomas Peele, Ray Chavez and Robert Salonga, revisited their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the “Ghost Ship” fire in Oakland, California in 2016. And Debra Cleaver, the founder of vote.org, spoke about voter repression and election processes.