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Democrat wins 28 awards, FOI title at APME
Published Saturday, May 10, 2008
JACKSON — The Natchez Democrat won 28 awards, including six first places and the Mississippi Freedom of Information Act Award at the annual Associated Press Managing Editors’ conference Friday.
The Democrat competes with papers in its circulation division in Mississippi and Louisiana.
The FOI award is a statewide award, though, meaning The Democrat competed against several much larger newspapers for the title.
The FOI title was given based on the newspaper’s coverage of the Natchez Board of Aldermen’s attempt to hold a closed meeting on crime late last year. In the final minutes before the meeting was scheduled to begin, The Democrat and its attorney succeeded convincing the board that the meeting should, legally, be open to the public.
Other awards were:
Editorials — Kevin Cooper, first place for “City’s abuse of law must end.”
Personal columns — Julie Finley, first place for “School board is hurting children”; Ben Hillyer third place for “We all have life to life, even in facing death.”
Spot news — Katie Stallcup, third place for “Pecan factory demolished.”
General feature — Luke Horton, second place for “After all these years”
Business — Vershal Hogan and Adam Koob, second place for ‘‘The business of art”; Hogan, third place for ‘‘Eye in the sky.’’
Interpretive: Adam Koob and Stallcup, first place for ‘‘The right treatment.’’
Spot sports: Jeff Edwards, third place, for ‘‘Never giving Up.’’
Sports columns: Edwards, third place
Spot news photo: Marcus Frazier, second place for ‘‘Local man found dead.’’
General news photo: Destiney Robb, second place for ‘‘Concerned about crime”; Frazier, third place for ‘‘And the winner is.’’
Sports action photo: Hillyer, second place for “What goes up.”
Sports feature photo: Hillyer, first place for ‘‘Girls of summer”; Frazier, second place for “Rain postpones tournament.’’
Feature photo: Robb, first place for ‘‘What a day to fly”; Hillyer, second place for ‘‘Sealed with a smile”; Hillyer, third place for ‘‘Flying high.’’
Illustration: Hillyer, first place for ‘‘The X-Factor”; Robb, third place for ‘‘Sparkling tradition.’’
Multipicture: Hillyer, second place for ‘‘Having a ball.’’
Portrait: Luke Horton, second place for ‘‘Choosing to Live.’’
Headlines: Finley and Horton, second place; Hillyer and Edwards, third place
Graphics: Hillyer, second place for ‘‘Down to the Wire.’’
Layout and design: The Natchez Democrat, second place.
Comments
Posted by kpage (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 9 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Congratulations Natchez Democrat!
Posted by Hardcorps (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 9:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Congraps Natchez Democrap. Noe gat that speelcheck fised. ROR
Posted by kpage (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 9:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Hardcorps is hard up for spellcheck, Demo! Can yall slap us one on here? I, for one, enjoy italics and bold. Color would be nice, too.
Posted by gemccull (Gary McCullars) on May 10, 2008 at 9:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, you can purchase software to help with gramar, speling, and punkuation but it is not fool proof. Even profreading after a long day, errors will happen.
There has been a posting or two on the Internet that shows a paragraph that one can read with all the misspelled words. It is very easy to proofread and not catch an error.
Posted by redusmfan (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 10:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Whoop tee doo for my subaru!!!!!!!!!!! Way to go...now, lighten up on the censorship of comments a little.......and you may get MY vote.
Posted by rushinghjr (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 10:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Congrat's to the ND! I always knew that you could come "thru" the rough times with all of the "experts" that read the paper!
Posted by Hardcorps (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 11:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)
gemccull like this....
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef , but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed tihs forwrad it
Posted by gemccull (Gary McCullars) on May 10, 2008 at 11:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Ylep! :o)
Posted by redusmfan (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 12:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I like it hardcorps. I understood every word . I have read teh study you are talking about, but we still need to teach all teh words and letters to our students because without them, they still will not understand.
Hvae a gerat day.
Posted by rushinghjr (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 5:32 p.m.
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Posted by gemccull (Gary McCullars) on May 10, 2008 at 7:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hardcorps, I am sorry for setting you up for the comment from rushinghjr. That was not my intent!
Posted by freedom42 (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 7:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well at least Hardcorps doesn't spell AMEN with a D at the end. Sorry but that really has bothered me for a long time, even though I usually agree with your opinion.
Posted by steve_o (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 9:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
That is exceptional E!
Posted by steve_o (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 9:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
my bad, hats off to hardcorps!!!
Posted by Peace007 (anonymous) on May 10, 2008 at 10:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Congratulations to all the democrat staff and may you win many more.
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