The Alabama Baptist was recently named one of the top newspapers in the nation for the 10th year in a row.
The Associated Church Press (ACP) named the paper second in Best in Class: Regional Newspaper for its work in 2006. The awards ceremony was April 24.
The Religion Communicators Council (RCC) also honored the paper as one of the nation’s top regional newspapers with an award of excellence and an award of merit April 26.
An ACP judge wrote: “The writing and editing in this paper is of the highest caliber. Equally impressive is the breadth of original reporting. The church in Alabama is well covered and doubly blessed.”
At the Baptist Communicators Association (BCA) annual workshop in Mobile April 13, Editor Bob Terry won a second place award for his editorial “It Is All About God.” He also won an honorable mention in ACP’s Editorial Courage division for “IMB Public Relations Fails to Serve Southern Baptists.”
The editorial staff also won four awards for continuing coverage of the church arson attacks that shocked the state in 2006:
- an honorable mention in ACP’s news writing division,
- an honorable mention in ACP’s In-depth Coverage division,
- an award of excellence in RCC’s news writing division and
- a second place award for stories in BCA’s News Writing Division.
Spanning the Globe, a quarterly feature written by correspondent Martine G. Bates and designed by Lauren A. Chow, won an award of excellence and an honorable mention from ACP.
Carrie Brown McWhorter, a correspondent for The Alabama Baptist, won a first place award from Evangelical Press Association for her story “Planning ahead helps make nursing home choices easier.”
Grace Thornton, assistant editor, also garnered an honorable mention from ACP for a feature article on state evangelism director Sammy Gilbreath, as well as an award of merit from RCC for the photo feature “Sweet Tradition.”
Other Alabama Baptists also garnered awards from BCA for their work in 2006.
Doug Rogers of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) — who served as program chair for this year’s BCA meeting in Mobile — won an honorable mention for his promotional video “Community of Hope.”
Rogers, along with Curry Evans of the SBOM, won a second place award for the audio program One Mission. The SBOM’s Jesse Conte garnered a second place award for his print ad “Reaching the Lost” and an honorable mention for a print ad designed for the Youth Evangelism Conference.
Rogers and Conte also placed second in the Special Exhibit/Display division for his billboard titled “Searching for the Truth?”
Two of the state’s Baptist colleges also brought home multiple awards.
Samford University’s office of communications won the top public relations award from BCA for its admissions campaign. It also won a second place award from BCA and an award of excellence from RCC for publications for the inauguration of President Andrew Westmoreland, as well as a second place award from BCA for its 2006 President’s Report. RCC also presented the office with an award of excellence for Seasons magazine.
Philip Poole, executive director of university communications at Samford, and Scott Camp, senior graphic designer, garnered a first place award from BCA and an award of merit from RCC for the Old Howard 100 logo.
Camp won two awards of excellence from RCC for the flier “Living with the Psalms” and the publication “J.I. Packer: The Evangelical Future.”
Poole and Camp also won an RCC award of excellence for the book “Corts: Deo, Doctrinae, Aeternitati,” and Camp and Sean Flynt, electronic news editor, won an award of merit for the admissions 2006 visit brochure.
At BCA, the University of Mobile’s (UM) office of marketing and public relations won a second place award for its Web site’s virtual tour and placed second in Advertising Copywriting for “Frankie Eubanks: Real People.”
The UM office also garnered an honorable mention in the Audio PSA or Commercial division for “Adult Degree Program” and an honorable mention in the Special Events division for the school’s scholarship banquet.
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