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Professional Competition
2009 VPW Communications Contest
Deadline: Jan. 19, 2009
2008 VPW Communications Contest
A total of 68 professional communicators won an impressive 213 awards in the Virginia Press Women's 2008 Communication Contest. Winners were announced at the Virginia Press Women Annual Spring Conference on Saturday, March 29, in Staunton, Va. Joan Tupponce, editor and freelance writer from Glen Allen, earned the sweepstakes award.
Entries that received first place are advanced to the National Federation of Press Women contest, and the national results will be announced in September.
Judges were representatives from national media, including the Washington Post and National Public Radio. The 2008 contest was managed by long-time member Mary Ann Johnson of Blacksburg.
2008 Press Release (MS Word document)
Previous VPW Communications Contest Results
Updated
April 8, 2008
Norma Pierce
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Thanks to our 2008 judges, without whom we could not hold a competition!
- Janie Harden Fritz, Department of Communications and Rhetoric, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa., and 14 of her colleagues
- Caryn Durham, Charles Ryan and Associates, Glen Allen
- David Hungate, Dominion Images, Roanoke
- Mark Nootbaar, National Public Radio, WDUQ, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Amity Gay, the zimmerman agency, Tallahassee, Fla.
- Julie Summers Walker, AOPA Pilot magazine, Frederick, Md.
- Kurt Rheinheimer, editor-in-chief, Roanoker magazine, Roanoke
- Helen Kessler Morris, WBT-TV, Charlotte NC
- Charlie Stott, office of the president, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
- Ted Bakamjian, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa, Okla.
- Bob Jenkins, St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, Fla.
- Martin Hintz, Irish American Post, Milwaukee, Wisc.
- Al Clark, The Daily Reflector, Greenville NC
- Rick Thames, The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte NC
- Julie Vosburg Agnone, National Geographic Magazine, Washington DC
- Ann Williams, National Geographic Kids Magazine, Washington DC
- Michelle Solomon, Long Island University Writing Center, Brooklyn NY
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