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Real Change staff earn journalism awards

Honors and praise - posted by Adam Hyla on Tuesday, June 1 at 5:09pm

A longtime publisher from Port Townsend spoke at a Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet I attended a few years back, and he solemnly told the audience that the journalism awards given out that night weren’t won, they were earned.

You win the lottery, you win at the poker table. Earnings are what’s due for the work you did.

Real Change staff won earned four awards in the 2009 regional contest of the Society of Professional Journalists last weekend, which covers daily and non-daily newspapers, alternative weeklies, radio and television broadcasters and online media. The awards were announced at the May 22 annual banquet of the Society of Professional Journalists’ regional contest. Real Change competed against non-daily papers from Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana.

Staff reporter Cydney Gillis won earned first-place awards in three categories: in Arts Reporting and Criticism for “Pike Place Market artists losing designated lofts” (April 8-14); in Social Issues Reporting for “Affordable Rentals takes $250 from homeless couple” (Aug. 5-11); and in Education Reporting for “Parents call changes at Seattle’s Indian Heritage School a whitewash,” (Sept. 30 – Oct. 4). Assistant Editor Rosette Royale won earned a second-place award in the Personalities Reporting category for “A fast for peace, recounted in number and deed” (Sept. 16-22).

You can look over this PDF for the contest’s complete results.

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