SPJ awards results
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Last night was the SPJ Excellence in journalism ceremony by Western Washington SPJ. Many of my colleagues at the Skagit Valley Herald earned awards for their work last year. The paper as a whole came out with 13 awards.
I was on the SVH staff team that earned a third-place showing in the environment and energy category with our series Skagit Warming. This is a highly competitive region, with papers from five states vying for awards (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska).
Unfortunately the two reporters who got the most, Josh Lintereur (four, including two first place) and Franny White (three, with two first place), are either gone or leaving soon. That’s turnover in a small community daily. It seems like there’s a lot more turnover here than anywhere else I’ve been. Maybe it’s because people who live here are transplants from somewhere else. Franny and Josh both moved back to their home towns to work.