Evangelical Press Association honors Calvin Cockrell with its Emerging Journalist Award.
By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle
DALLAS — We have a saying at The Christian Chronicle: “There’s nothing Calvin can’t do.”
In fact, we must resist the temptation to pile more and more duties on our friend and colleague.
Calvin Cockrell, 30, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Alabama, maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA each time.
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Calvin joined the Chronicle in 2021 as a part-time writer, editor and social media manager. In 2025, God provided the opportunity for us to hire him full time as our managing editor.
He helps coordinate coverage strategy, contributors and online and print publication. He crafts a weekly email newsletter along with social media posts highlighting the Chronicle’s articles.
Calvin has reported from seven states. Besides writing, he contributes photos, videos and reviews. He launched the Chronicle’s TikTok and grew it to 17,000 followers, with regular engagement and a viral video that reached 4.5 million views. He also published a Facebook post that reached 3 million views.
See what I mean? There’s nothing Calvin can’t do.
That’s why I nominated him for the Evangelical Press Association’s 2026 Emerging Journalist Award — and why all of us at the Chronicle were so excited when the EPA recently announced him as the winner.
This column appears in the June print edition of The Christian Chronicle.
Photo by Ephraim Rodenbach
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