2010 Contest Winners Announced
Congratulations to the 23 winners in the 2010 APC Communications Contest. First-place winners will go on to compete at the national level in the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest.
Sheila Balistreri, Sharon Bushell, Bruce Bustamante, Dan Carpenter , Debbie Cutler, Molly Dischner, Morgan Grey, Therese Harvey, MaryLee Hayes, Stan Jones, Karla Kolash, Allyson McBride, Rhonda McBride, Amy Murphy, Anita Nelson, Dianne O’Connell, Brenna Clairr O’Tierney, Elise Patkotak, Sarah Richards, Yereth Rosen, Kathleen Tarr, Noe Texeira, Phil Walczak.
Special recognition goes to Amy Murphy, who wins our Sweepstakes award, with the most winning entries.
1C News reporting, publication/magazine/supplement, general or specialized circulation
1st: Debbie Cutler, Ice road truckers: the “reality” behind the Haul Road, Alaska Business Monthly
2nd: Amy Murphy, AVEC’s wind program, Ruralite magazine
Hon. Mention: Amy Murphy, Issues raised at the annual meeting, Ruralite magazine
2 Continuing coverage or unfolding news
1st: Yereth Rosen, Palin leaves office, Christian Science Monitor
4 Enterprise reporting
1st: Yereth Rosen, Alaska climate change, Reuters
7C Feature story, publication for general or specialized circulation
1st: Amy Murphy, Extreme winter working conditions, Ruralite magazine
2nd: Kathleen Tarr, Cultural legacy: exploring Alaska’s Russian influences, Alaska Airlines magazine
3rd: MaryLee Hayes, The wild Valdez adventure, Alaska Women Speak
Hon. Mention: Debbie Cutler, Cruise ship magic, Alaska Business Monthly
9E Special articles, education
Hon. Mention: Molly Dischner and Sarah Richards, Students blindsided by loan change and Students struggle to achieve good credit, the Sun Star (UAF student newspaper)
9F Special articles, science
1st: Yereth Rosen, A grand quest to rid an island of rats and When Mt. Redoubt erupts, these scientists are on the job, Christian Science Monitor
9Q Special articles, travel
1st: Debbie Cutler, Magnificent Glacier Bay and Glacier Bay Lodge and tours, Alaska Business Monthly
2nd: Amy Murphy, Kala Patthar—Nepal and Arctic to Bird ski trip, Scree
10B Personal columns, general
1st: Elise Patkotak, Racial attack came from bottom up and Boys’ sex abuse a private horror, Anchorage Daily News
2nd: Elise Patkotak, Dog’s value is what it teaches kids about democracy and To help break cycle of abuse, try removing judgment, Anchorage Daily News
16C Page layout, publication for general or specialized circulation
2nd: Amy Murphy, Spring floods cause damage and Hooper Bay’s wind turbine project, Ruralite magazine
20B Photography in printed publication other than newspaper, feature photo
Hon. Mention: Amy Murphy, Kala Patthar and Mount Pumari as viewed from Gorak Shep (Himalayas—near Everest), The Scree
20C Photography in printed publication other than newspaper, sports photo
1st: Amy Murphy, Looking back toward Temptation Peak during backcountry ski trip, The Scree
Hon. Mention: Amy Murphy, Ray and John transferring skis across “bridge” at creek crossing, The Scree
22 Photographer-writer
2nd: Amy Murphy, Chevak’s new power generation facilities, Ruralite magazine
24B Prepared report, television
1st: Rhonda McBride and Phil Walczak, Walter Hickel: 90 years of vision, KTUU-TV Channel 2
25B Special programming, television
1st: Rhonda McBride and Dan Carpenter, Sarah Palin’s wild ride, KTUUTV Channel 2
30B Best newscast, television
1st: Sheila Balistreri, The Morning Edition, KTUU-TV Ch. 2
31B Best presentation, television
1st: Sheila Balistreri, The Morning Edition, KTUU-TV Ch. 2
42 Community or institutional relations
1st: Anita Nelson, Bruce Bustamante and Allyson McBride, At home in
Alaska, Princess Tours
47B Annual report, internal
1st: Amy Murphy, Alaska Village Electric Cooperative Annual Report 2008, Alaska Village Electric Co-op
2nd: Morgan Grey, Apprenticeship technologies, University of Alaska Anchorage
50A Newsletter, one– to three-color
1st: Elise Patkotak and Noe Texeira, The Flight Feather, February 2009, Bird Treatment and Learning Center
2nd: Elise Patkotak and Noe Texeira, The Flight Feather, August 2009, Bird Treatment and Learning Center
51B Brochure, four-color
1st: Morgan Grey, Alaska statehood quilt, Alaska Statehood Celebration
2nd: Dianne O’Connell, Growing the promise/cultivating the legacy: village partnerships, Presbytery of Yukon, Presbytery of Yukon
53 Direct mail marketing
1st: Noe Texeira and Karla Kolash, North Slope Borough calendar, North Slope Borough
60A Feature writing, collegiate: newspaper, magazine or special supplement
1st: Brenna Clairr O’Tierney, More than just beds and a roof over their heads, The Protest, Northwestern University
Hon. Mention: Brenna Clairr O’Tierney, Student members of Take Back NYU take over, The Protest, Northwestern University
Hon. Mention: Brenna Clairr O’Tierney, The other Olympics struggle, The Protest, Northwestern University
72B Non-fiction book, essay in book
2nd: Therese Harvey, From anthropomorphism to zoomorphism, Tidal Echoes, UAS Literary Arts Journal 2009
72D Non-fiction book, history
1st: Stan Jones and Sharon Bushell, The spill: Personal stories from the Exxon Valdez disaster, Epicenter Press Inc.
72H Non-fiction book, religious or inspirational
2nd: Morgan Grey, Bedtime stories for a dying friend
73 Fiction, novel
1st: Stan Jones, Village of the ghost bears, Soho Press
JUDGES
SAM KINCH
Categories 1-10 (print journalistic writing)
Sam Kinch Jr. was a prizewinning reporter on Texas politics and government for 37 years and founding editor of Texas Weekly, a leading political newspaper. He was educated at The University of Texas, where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Texan. He began covering the Texas legislature in 1961, then moved to Washington to cover Texas members of Congress for two Dallas newspapers. In 1970 he returned to Austin, where he was state political editor for the Dallas Morning News until 1984. He then founded Texas Weekly, which he sold when he retired in 1998. He has written three books on Texas politics. He is married, with three grown children and six grandchildren.
VICKI RISHLING and REBECCA J. “BECKY” TALLENT
University of Idaho
Categories 11-17 (editing and layout), and non-fiction books
Vicki Rishling, a longtime newspaper editor and reporter, holds a master’s degree in journalism from Ohio State University, where she was a Kiplinger fellow in 2002. She is a senior lecturer for journalism classes at the University of Idaho’s School of Journalism and Mass Media in Moscow, Idaho. Rebecca J. “Becky” Tallent, an award-winning journalist and public relations specialist, is an assistant professor of journalism and mass media at the University of Idaho. Becky has been active in the Society of ProfessionalJournalists (SPJ) since 1972. She is also active in the Native American Journalists Association. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Central Oklahoma and a Doctor of Education in Mass Communications from Oklahoma State University.
HEATHER ANNE THOMAS
Categories 18-22 (photography)
Heather Anne Thomas’ father gave her a camera at age five and she’s never put it down. She studied painting and art history at the University of Texas and honed her technical skills assisting some of the best photographers in Houston and New York City. Her editorial work has appeared in Food Arts, Traditional Home, Wine Spectator, Garden & Gun, and Forbes Life, and her commercial clients include some of the most prestigious names in kitchen and home design and equipment. Heather Anne resides in Tennessee with her husband Dan, daughter Iris Mae, and dog Galen.
JOHN FOSHOLT
Categories 23-31 (radio and television)
John Fosholt retired as a photographer and writer with KUSA television, the NBC affiliate in Denver. He worked in Denver television news for 32 years as an editor, producer, and investigative journalist. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Colorado State University and a master’s in Mass Communication from the University of Denver, where he has taughttelevision news for about 30 years. He is also vice-president of the Colorado Freedom of Information Council.
RUTH ANNA
Categories 36-41 (Advertising, print and electronic); 42-57
(Public relations, promotion, publicity); and 58 (Speeches)
Ruth Anna founded Anna Public Relations Consultants in the Denver area in 1977. She has more than 30 years of diversified experience in both the private and public arenas. Her clients include professional associations, scientific firms, human service and nonprofit agencies, businesses, government agencies, and political candidates. Her services include speech and report writing and editing, media relations, crisis management, workshops and seminars, publications, campaign management, fundraising, and event management. She’s a past president of the National Federation of Press Women and Colorado Press Women, and has served on the Colorado Freedom of Information Council since 1987.
ROBERT HELLENGA
Fiction and poetry
Robert Hellenga, author, teaches English literature at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. He started writing fiction in 1973 and published his first novel (after 39 rejections) in 1994. The Italian Lover is his latest. The others are Philosophy Made Simple, The Sixteen Pleasures, The Fall of a Sparrow, Blues Lessons, and Snakewoman of Little Egypt (forthcoming). He was educated at the University of Michigan and Princeton University. He has three daughters, “like King Lear,” he says, “but unlike the Lears, we all get along.”
