register star wins 23 awards in state competition
1 comment August 19th, 2008
this week, we learned that the register star won a record 23 awards in the annual Illinois Press Association 2008 Excellence in News contest (for may 2007 through april 2008 work). we won’t learn how we placed until october. below are the winners, so we are proud:
General Excellence — Staff
Local Editorial — Staff
Editorial Cartoon — Bruce Quast
News Reporting, Single Story — Midway Theater, Sean Driscoll
News Reporting, Single Story — Policing overtime, Isaac Guerrero
Taxation coverage — Isaac Guerrero
News Reporting Series — Not Again (Flood coverage), Staff
News Reporting Series — No. Not Here. (NIU), Staff
Sports Feature — No place like home, Emily Tropp
Sports Feature — Scoring 1,000, Emily Tropp
Enterprise/Feature writing — City takes tough stance to clean, Georgette Braun
Feature Writing — Letting Go, Geri Nikolai
Reviews — Georgette Braun
Info Graphic — Criminal Justice Center Overview, Margo Morgan
Info Graphic — Congress Votes, Margo Morgan
Info Graphic — Quake, Margo Morgan, Kelley Simms, Chris Soprych
Headline Writing — Adam McHugh
LifeStyle section
Art/Entertainment Section
Special Section — Woman of the year (Rockford Woman)
Best Web Site
Best Web Project — Belvidere Tornado
Most Innovative Project — BusinessRockford.com
