For Immediate Release: May 4, 2010 For more information: Sarah Prickett, GES Contest Administrator, gesawards@spj.org Sonny Albarado, SPJ Region 12 Director, (901) 529-2703 or salbarado@spj.org Jenn Rowell, SPJ Region 3 director, rowell83@gmail.com
Finalists named in 60th annual Green Eyeshade Awards The Society of Professional Journalists announces the finalists for the 60th annual Green Eyeshade Awards. This regional journalism competition recognizes outstanding journalism in 11 southeastern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. The winners will be announced at the Green Eyeshades Award Banquet this summer. An additional email with information on banquet registration will be sent to all finalists. Please watch our website, www.greeneyeshade.org for more information The Green Eyeshade Awards were started by the Atlanta Professional Chapter of SPJ and are now administered by regional directors for the Society. The Society of Professional Journalists works to improve and protect journalism. The organization is the nation’s most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior. Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to a well-informed citizenry; works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists; and protects First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press.
FINALISTS (in random order) Note: In each division, all categories that received too few entries to be judged separately were combined into a “Special Reporting” category in each division.
Print- Daily Division 1. Breaking News "Scott Rothstein's Ponzi scheme" Jon Burnstein, Brittany Wallman, Sally Kestin, and Michael Mayo, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale) "Sanford e-mails outline his affair" Staff, The State (Columbia) "McNair tragedy" Staff, The Tennessean (Nashville) 2. Non-Deadline Reporting "Anatomy of an Atrocity" Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal (Louisville) "For Their Own Good" Ben Montgomery, Waveney Anne Moore, and Edmund D. Fountain, St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg) "Public Piggy Banks" Staff, The Miami Herald (Miami)