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Joe Butler: 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.)
Question: Do these media awards presentations mean anything to readers?
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.
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JBelle on May 05 at 8:21 a.m.
One thing about the media awards that seems a little passive aggressive is that you only remember the award winning pieces to a certain extent. Can't the SR park the award winning pieces on a spot on its website, so readers can go back and relish the award winning work? In particular, I would love to see Dan Pelle's piece on Ron Long. And reread some of Meaghan Cunniff's chapters of the heinous Joseph Duncan. And Betsy Russell's pieces, too. I actually started reading Betsy Russell through the Joseph Duncan trial so there is sunshine in all things, I guess. As for that HBO guy, I think he's a little modest: do these award mean anything to readers….
darn right they do! and by the way, I TOLD YOU Cunniff was worth reading even if she was writing the yellow pages. Meaghan Cunniff is 3 times the reporter that Karen Dorn is and was. There, I said it. It's out.
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Bent on May 05 at 10:30 a.m.
“Meaghan Cunniff is 3 times the reporter that Karen Dorn is and was. There, I said it. It's out.” — Jbelle
I completely agree, Jbelle! I've been saying that for several years now…
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