2016 Contest Award Recipients
Bonnie Atwood
- Second place for single advertisements for print or electronic publication
- Third place for speech
- Honorable mention for feature story – magazine, newsletter, or other non-newspaper print publication and personality profile – More than 500 words
Sue Bland
- First place for news story – magazine, newsletter, or other non-newspaper print publication
Frances Broaddus-Crutchfield
- First place for creative verse – single poem; honorable mention for Children’s books – nonfiction (2)
Katherine Calos
- First place for specialty articles – history
- Third place for personality profile – more than 500 words
Julie Campbell
- Third place for feature story – online publication; honorable mention for personality profile – more than 500 words
Hannah Davis
- First place for news story – print-based newspaper; specialty articles – sports; single photograph – news or feature photo; single photograph – sports photo
- Second place for news story – print-based newspaper; personality profile – 500 words or fewer; specialty articles – sports; page design – newspaper; and single photograph – sports photo
- Third place for editorial/opinion – print-based newspaper (2); specialty articles – physical health, fitness, mental health, self-help; and single photograph – sports photo
- Honorable mention for specialty articles – physical health, fitness, mental health, self-help and columns – personal opinion (bylined, not editorial)
Jennifer Drummond
- Second place for feature story – online publication
Paul Fletcher
- First place for editorial/opinion – print-based newspaper
- Second place for columns – humorous and columns – general
Audrey Hingley
- Second place for feature story – magazine, newsletter, or other non-newspaper print publication
- Third place for specialty articles – arts and entertainment
- Honorable mention for specialty articles – travel
Cathy Jett
- First place for specialty articles – agriculture, agribusiness, aquaculture; specialty articles – business; and specialty articles – education
Virginia Johnson
- First place for blogs – nonprofit, government or educational
- Second place for specialty articles – reviews (any subject, must express personal opinion)
Patty Kruszewski
- First place for feature story – print-based newspaper; specialty articles – reviews (any subject, must express personal opinion); columns – personal opinion (bylined, not editorial); and blogs – personal
- Second place for columns – personal opinion (bylined, not editorial) and blogs – personal
- Third place for feature story – print -based newspaper
- Honorable mention for feature story – print-based newspaper
Heloise “Ginger” Levit
- First place for individual achievement
- Third place for specialty articles – history and specialty articles – reviews (any subject, must express personal opinion)
- Honorable mention for news story – print-based newspaper and editorial/opinion – print-based newspaper
Kimberly Loehr
- First place for specialty articles – science or technology and videos for website – nonprofit, government, or educational
K.J. Mushung
- First place for news story – online publication; feature story – online publication; specialty articles – green/environmental; single photograph – general photo (open competition – no subcategories as to type of publication); photographer-writer; and web site edited or managed by entrant – nonprofit, government, or educational
- Second place for news story – online publication; enterprise reporting; specialty articles – social issues; and single photograph – general photo (open competition – no subcategories as to type of publication)
- Third Place for news story – online publication.
- Honorable Mention for continuing coverage or unfolding news; single photograph – news or feature photo(3); single photograph – sports photo; single photograph – general photo (open competition – no subcategories as to type of publication)
Cynthia Price
- First place for headlines; community, institutional, or internal relations; marketing program or campaign for new or existing service or product (with co-entrant Sunni Brown, Richmond); magapapers/tabloids
- Third Place for blogs – personal
Martha Steger
- First place for personality profile – 500 words or fewer; specialty articles – arts and entertainment; specialty articles – business; columns – general
- Second Place for speech; creative verse – single poem
- Third Place for specialty articles – advertorials (special ad supplements or special sections
- Honorable Mention for photographer-writer
Marge Swayne
- First place for specialty articles – food; specialty articles – physical health, fitness, mental health, self-help; specialty articles – religion; specialty articles – social issues; columns – humorous
- Second place for feature story – print-based newspaper; specialty articles – business; specialty articles – education; specialty articles – food; specialty articles – history; specialty articles – physical health, fitness, mental health, self-help; single photograph – news or feature photo; and photographer-writer
- Third place for news story – print-based newspaper; personality profile – more than 500 words; specialty articles – agriculture, agribusiness, aquaculture; specialty articles – arts and entertainment; columns – general; columns – personal opinion (bylined, not editorial); single photograph – news or feature photo; and photographer-writer
- Honorable mention for editorial/opinion – print-based newspaper and headlines
Joan Tupponce
- First place for personality profile – more than 500 words and specialty articles – home (interior deco, furniture, architecture, landscaping)
- Second place for personality profile – more than 500 words and specialty articles – arts and entertainment
- Third place for feature story – magazine, newsletter, or other non-newspaper print publication
- Honorable mention for personality profile – more than 500 words and specialty articles – travel
Gwen Woolf
- Second place for specialty articles – travel
- Honorable mention for specialty articles – arts and entertainment
Diane York
- First place for feature story – magazine, newsletter, or other non-newspaper print publication
- Second place for specialty articles – advertorials (special ad supplements or special sections)