Sure, The Pitt News is a nice way to play Sudoku and look for apartment listings, but did you… Sure, The Pitt News is a nice way to play Sudoku and look for apartment listings, but did you know the paper also has articles in it?

And now, those articles have been named the nation’s best.

College Media Matters, a website affiliated with The Poynter Institute, named both The Pitt News and The Yale Daily News as the country’s best college newspapers in the “Most Industrious Reporting” category of its 2009 awards.

The Pitt News also earned national recognition in this year’s Gold Circle Awards — given by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at Columbia University — in the categories of News Writing, General or Humor Commentary, First-Person Experience, Editorial Cartoons, Art Illustration, Overall Design, News Page Design, Feature Page Design and Special Section.