Newspaper receives 28 awards, including General Excellence, in APME contest
The Sentinel- Record received 28 awards, including first place for General Excellence, in the 2017 Arkansas Associated Press Managing Editors contest.
The winners were announced Friday. In all, the newspaper received 11 firstplace awards in the medium-sized paper category. Among medium-sized papers, The Baxter Bulletin at Mountain Home took second in General Excellence and The Saline Courier at Benton was third.
Staff writer David Showers of The Sentinel-Record was also honored for his work in service to the Freedom of Information Act, for his articles about the newspaper’s efforts to obtain bid information from Harris Corp. and Mo- torola Solutions’ proposals for the city’s radio improvement plan in May 2017.
Showers also received a first-place award for Beat Reporting, for his coverage of the city of Hot Springs, and first-, second- and third-place awards for Political Reporting for coverage of city politics.
The newspaper’s other first-place awards included Digital content, which includes its website, http://www.
hotspringssr.com, its Facebook page, and Twitter accounts devoted to news and sports.
It also received a first-place award for News Coverage, for articles by photographer/staff writer Grace Brown and former staff writer Max Bryan on the July 1, 2017, fire that destroyed four homes in the 300 block of Kleinshore Drive. The judge singled out Brown and Bryan for seeking out people directly impacted by the fire, and the “good detail” included in their articles.
Other first- place awards included Headline; Special Project- Community Service for the Mental Health Awareness series by Jay Bell; Column-Lifestyle-Human Interest, for General Manager Harry Porter’s column on “Surviving a Movie Villain;” Sports Story; Spot Sports Photo; Feature Sports Photo by Richard Rasmussen, who also received a third-place award in that category; and Page Design by Brittany Ward, for the newspaper’s annual football section.
In Page Design, the newspaper also received second- and third-place awards.
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