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2009 News Contest Winners
| Education writing: D1 |
Place: 2 |
| Name: J.R. Williams |
Publication: Northern Virginia Daily |
| City: Strasburg |
Subject: 1) Electric cars; 2) WWII art stash; 3) Soldier at school |
| Comments: The Race Is On offers an engaging view of the educational benefits of the electric car project at the Mountain Vista Governor's School. The art stash story was fascinating look at the role a Winchester High School played in marking art that made the gallery. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Education writing: D1 |
Place: 3 |
| Name: Ben Orcutt |
Publication: Northern Virginia Daily |
| City: Strasburg |
Subject: 1) A class by himself; 2) Critters of Virginia; 3) Handley pride |
| Comments: First story draws in readers with a great lede to detail the experiences of the sole member of the Royal Christian Academy's 2009 senior class. Other entries also well done on topics that aren't often engaging. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Feature story writing: D1 |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Natalie Austin |
Publication: Northern Virginia Daily |
| City: Strasburg |
Subject: Road to recovery |
| Comments: Rare look at a woman's struggle to overcome her husband's suicide. You could feel the emotion, the reporting was well-detailed. The subject was unusually honest. Nice writing job too. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Feature story writing: D1 |
Place: 2 |
| Name: Jeff Say |
Publication: Culpeper Star-Exponent |
| City: Culpeper |
Subject: Culpeper's fountain of youth |
| Comments: I was prepared to be bored by this one, but the writing was so good and the ordinary details of a man's life made so interesting that I couldn't stop reading. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Feature story writing: D1 |
Place: 3 |
| Name: Chase Purdy |
Publication: The News Virginian |
| City: Waynesboro |
Subject: Lost pigeon perishes on pilgrimage |
| Comments: I didn't think you could make a story about a dead person interesting, but Purdy's writing did the trick. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Editorial writing: D1 |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Brian Couturier |
Publication: The Progress-Index |
| City: Petersburg |
Subject: Four Years later. Is Air condition at Petersburg's jail appropriate? Hopewell sergeant serves his country one last time |
| Comments: Beyond the logic and clear thinking necessary to convince, an editorial must be well written and interesting enough to get the reader beyond the first couple sentences. All three editorials in this entry did that. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Editorial writing: D1 |
Place: 2 |
| Name: Rob Humphreys |
Publication: Culpeper Star-Exponent |
| City: Culpeper |
Subject: staff editorials |
| Comments: Lead editorial in this entry was very strong. Hard hitting and concise. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Editorial writing: D1 |
Place: 3 |
| Name: Chris Fordney |
Publication: Northern Virginia Daily |
| City: Strasburg |
Subject: 1) Bradley verdict; 2) Privatize rest stops; 3) Meth |
| Comments: Clear-headed, direct and interesting, especially the first example. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Multimedia news reporting: D1 |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Patrick Kane |
Publication: The Progress-Index |
| City: Petersburg |
Subject: Soaring Back to Health |
| Comments: Heartwarming story. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Multimedia news reporting: D1 |
Place: 2 |
| Name: Rich Cooley, Linda O'Dell Ash |
Publication: Northern Virginia Daily |
| City: Strasburg |
Subject: Interstate crash kills three |
| Comments: Pictures tell story. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Multimedia news reporting: D1 |
Place: 3 |
| Name: Rhonda Simmons, Jeff Say |
Publication: Culpeper Star-Exponent |
| City: Culpeper |
Subject: Decorated, but humble |
| Comments: Good story about a military man. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Multimedia sports reporting: D1 |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Ron Counts, Jeff Say, Vincent Vala |
Publication: Culpeper Star-Exponent |
| City: Culpeper |
Subject: Guerilla Journalism |
| Comments: Good series. Need to watch audio levels. Hard to hear in some parts. Also use video slats and bullet lists to break up video. Appeals to old and young demographics. Also a landing page to have all guerilla journalism video with explication and about the author would be helpful. |
Year: 2009 |
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| Multimedia sports reporting: D1 |
Place: 2 |
| Name: Jim Sacco, Rob Sisk |
Publication: The News Virginian |
| City: Waynesboro |
Subject: The Sports Desk: Waynesboro Generals |
| Comments: Share this feature is good as it covers all social networking sites. Nice use of Vote Now, Buzz Up (I am not sure how effective that feature is, but it is visible and catchy.) Good photo and use of external link to all things valley. WATCH! that should be a new window. It is taking you away from NVDaily.com. RSS feed and print version. Good touches too Think about video accompanying story too. |
Year: 2009 |
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| General news photo: D1 |
Place: 1 |
| Name: Sabrina Schaeffer |
Publication: The Progress-Index |
| City: Petersburg |
Subject: C-17's long trip ends at Fort Lee |
| Comments: Found an interesting, personal approach to what could have been a standard photo. |
Year: 2009 |
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| General news photo: D1 |
Place: 2 |
| Name: Gavin Dressler |
Publication: Virginian Review |
| City: Covington |
Subject: |
| Comments: Good reaction. The photographer was on top of the event. |
Year: 2009 |
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