The Alabama Baptist topped the list of the nation’s regional Christian newspapers for the 15th straight year.
Based on work published in 2010, Associated Church Press (ACP) gave the paper its top award for regional newspaper — the Award of Excellence.
The paper also won an honorable mention from Baptist Communicators Association (BCA) and an award of excellence from Religion Communicators Council (RCC).
And two specific issues won awards — an award of merit from RCC for the Oct. 7, 2010, issue, and an award of excellence from ACP for the June 3, 2010, front page.
The staff of The Alabama Baptist also garnered writing awards from those three organizations plus Evangelical Press Association (EPA).
For the second year in a row, Managing Editor Jennifer Rash and correspondent writer Sondra Washington won awards for their ongoing coverage of gambling in Alabama. They won an award of excellence from both ACP and RCC and a second-place news-writing award from BCA.
Bob Terry, president and editor of the state Baptist paper, won two honorable mentions from BCA for two of his editorials, “Quran Burning Debate Shows Double Standard” and “God’s Goodness Not Determined by a Test Results.” His editorial “Glenn Beck Is Wrong” also won an honorable mention from
ACP.
In addition, he garnered a fourth-place award from EPA for “Quran Burning Debate Shows Double Standard,” and he and Rash received a fourth-place award for “Q-and-A with gubernatorial candidates Robert Bentley and Ron Sparks.”
A feature section on “Baptizing Children” won an award of excellence from ACP, and one of the stories inside, “Preparing a child’s heart to respond to Christ,” brought a first-place award from EPA in the evangelism article category for writer Waylan Owens.
Correspondent writer John Evans won two second-place awards for feature stories, one from BCA and one from EPA.
The Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM) was also honored with six awards from BCA.
Jesse Conte won first place in the specialty items category for the design of the Alabama Bible Drill tote bag. He also got second-place awards for the “Thank You” Cooperative Program print ad, the Spring Ring logo design and the new SBOM letterhead and business cards.
In addition, Conte won an honorable mention for the One Mission Students display banner.
Chris Mills and Doug Rogers won a first-place award in the Internet-based Media category for the SBOM e-newsletter, a monthly e-mail that promotes events and resources to more than 8,500 recipients.
Rogers also won first place in the photography division for a photo of Reggie Quimby and an interpreter sharing the gospel at a medical clinic in Ukraine, and a second-place award in the video public service announcement or commercial category for “The Next Step,” a joint project with First Baptist Church, Tallassee, to help them prepare for a move to dual Sunday Schools.
Samford University’s office of communications also received a number of regional and national awards under the leadership of Philip Poole, executive director of university communication at Samford.
From BCA, video producer/editor Nathan Troost won first place for a Samford commercial that aired during athletics broadcasts. He and Poole also won another first-place award for the monthly video newsmagazine “The Samford Chronicle.”
Web designer Carissa Bradley brought home a BCA second-place award for the office of admission website.
Samford also received two awards of excellence from RCC — one for the university’s quarterly news publication, “Seasons,” and one for a campus visit brochure that was part of the undergraduate admission brochure for
2010–11. (TAB)
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