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IPC Honors Russell, HBO, SR

Posted by DFO

May 4, 2009 1:46 p.m. • 13 comments

Put your hands together for Betsy Russell, the SR’s state political reporter extraordinaire, who hauled in some big time hardware at the annual Idaho Press Club’s awards ceremony Saturday. Betsy shared the IPC’s First Amendment Award w/the Idaho news media for Joseph Duncan trial access. Also, she shared a first-place award with Meghann Cuniff for her Duncan trial coverage and came in third in the Reporter of the Year category. The SR won first in the General Excellence category. Huckleberries took first in the Best Blog category. And the North Idaho College Sentinel and UIdaho Argonaut won several awards, too. You can view all the categories and winners here.

13 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Tumblewords on May 04 at 2:21 p.m.
Congratulations to all! Well done!
hmoffsuite on May 04 at 4:10 p.m.
Yes, congratulations are in order for each of you. DFO in particular. After having spent some time now on HBO, I can really appreciate the effort and amount of work involved in being the best.
Bent on May 04 at 4:16 p.m.
Nice Job, DFO, Meghann and Betsy…

Funny, I didn’t see one Hagdone paper in the awards this year. Did they quit entering?
Cindy_H on May 04 at 4:28 p.m.
Congrats to all!
Well deserved honors.
JBelle on May 04 at 4:49 p.m.
Lord Have Mercy!

We live among rock stars! We are not worthy!
Arpie on May 04 at 7:23 p.m.
Best Blog! Second place is way back there!
joebu on May 04 at 9:12 p.m.
Bent, I don’t think the Press has even entered this one since I left. As a perpetual club officer, it fell to me to hand out the forms and collect whatever entries people wanted to turn in. Mike Patrick never especially seemed to care for this one or wanted to spend the budget on it. But he never stopped people from entering on their own time and own dime. He also would occasionally give bonuses if people won big at this one or SPJ. (Mike preferred the AP contest, which represented more states, and also pitted papers against comparable sized papers, instead of all the papers in the state.)

Boy, it doesnt seem that long ago that the Press and the Review would sweep the Press Club contest every year — someone, usually Steve Massey or Erica Curless, would come back from Boise with boxes of hardware for both papers.

Congrats to Betsty, Meghann and DFO!

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.