This is a place to list the awards TTN has won and honors of individual or groups of TTN staffers, whether former or current.

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• Feb. 5, 2008: Room 243, a blog for alumni of The Temple News, is launched.
• January 2008: A new, independently designed and maintained Temple-News.com is launched.
• November 2007: TTN was listed as a finalist for the Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper and Online Pacemakers.
• October 2007: Charmie Snetter, Class of 2007 and former editor-in-chief, was hired as a copyeditor for the Boston Globe.
• September 2007: Broad and Cecil, TTN’s news blog, is launched.
• November 2006: TTN was awarded a Pacemaker from the Associated Collegiate Press, one of only 20 university papers in the country and the only in the Philadelphia region so named.
• October 2006: Temple’s Alumni Association hosted an 85th anniversary celebration of The Temple News.
• March 2006: Seven TTN staffers won 11 Collegiate Keystone Press Awards at the 10th annual event held by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.
• 1998: Tom Ferrick, Class of 1960 and former city editor, begins what would be a decade-long stint as a metro columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
• September 1996: TTN goes weekly for the first time since the 1940s. In its inaugural Thursday edition, beating industry trends, the staff asks readers to look online for breaking news and updates to its weekly print product.
• 1996: Joby Warrick, Class of 1982 and former sports writer, shared a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service at the age of 35 with two other fellow staff writers from the News and Observer in his native North Carolina. They wrote a series of stories on the effects of hog waste in the region. He now works for the Washington Post.
• September 1991: Terry Taylor, Class of 1974 and former city editor, is named the Sports Editor of the Associated Press.
• 1973: Zach Stalberg, Class of 1968 and former cartoonist, convinced then-Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo to take a lie detector test on a political bribe he allegedly offered. In what has become a seminal moment in Philly political history, Rizzo accepted the offer and failed the test, warranting a Philadelphia Daily News headline of ‘RIZZO LIED, TESTS SHOW.’

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