The Alabama Press Association (APA) recently announced The Alabama Baptist (TAB) was among its 2017 APA Better Newspaper Contest winners.
Editor Bob Terry and Neisha Roberts, former assistant editor, both won second place awards in TAB’s division for work done in 2016. Terry won for his editorial “Mocking the Alabama Supreme Court” and Roberts won for her photo essay “The Value of the Church.”
TAB has entered the APA contest for the last three years and brought home awards each year, including the top Freedom of Information — First Amendment Award last year. This year’s contest had 2,753 entries submitted by 74 newspapers. The Georgia Press Association judged the entries.
TAB also won awards from Baptist Communicators Association, Associated Church Press, Evangelical Press Association and Religion Communicators Council this year and has garnered awards from these groups for more than 20 years. (TAB)
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