The College Heights Herald and wkuherald.com were named National Pacemaker winners Saturday at the fall National College Media Convention in Louisville.

WKU was one of four schools that won National Pacemakers from the Associated Collegiate Press for their student newspapers and newspaper websites. The others were the University of Georgia, Indiana University and Northwestern University.

The newspaper National Pacemaker Award is the 13th for the Herald and the first for wkuherald.com.

All three student publications at WKU – the Herald, wkuherald

.com and the Talisman – were Pacemaker finalists, the only school in the country to achieve that distinction.

Andrew Robinson, a senior from Overland Park, Kan., was the editor of the 2009-10 Herald and the developer of the winning website. Caralyne Wright, a May graduate from Cub Run, was the 2009 Talisman editor.

A multimedia feature on wkuherald.com produced by Ben Severance, a junior from Wilmont, N.H., and Bethany Mollenkof, a senior from Chattanooga, Tenn., won first place in the ACP multimedia competition.

Lexington senior Tanner Curtis placed third in spot news photo in the Talisman, and Brendan Sullivan, a May graduate from Haddon Township, N.J., and Daniel Hobbs, a May graduate from Fayetteville, Ga., received honorable mention for a spread in the 2009 Talisman.

Three WKU students represented Student Publications at the convention: Andrew Robinson and Josh Moore from the Herald and Sam Oldenburg from the Talisman.

Bob Adams is the Herald adviser and Katie Clark is the Talisman adviser.