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From APW and BeyondAPW fall professional development
Plans are proceeding for the fall conference in Northwest Arkansas. Because the event is coinciding with Bikes, Blues and BBQ weekend, hotel rooms are not plentiful. A block has been reserved for Friday night, Sept. 30, and Saturday night, Oct. 1, but those planning...
AWF to honor Griffee
Thanks to Kristin for sharing this with us. AWF Honors Carol Griffee At Their 75th Anniversary Banquet & Will Auction A Youth Elk Hunting Permit Little Rock - Arkansas Wildlife Federation (AWF), the oldest non-profit conservation organization in the state of...
Countdown to NWA Gridiron
Tickets go on sale Sept. 1! See: http://nwagridiron.com/NWA_Gridiron_Show/Home.html
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Terry Hawkins, our treasurer and publisher of the Dumas Clarion, for his wins in this year's Arkansas Press Association contest. Terry took first and second place in editorial writing in the medium weeklies category, and another second...
6-15 Job Opps
KLRT/Fox 16 seeks part-time associate producer: http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/aj_profile.asp?jID=4783 Fox 16 also needs a weekend anchor/reporter: http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/aj_profile.asp?jID=4987
APW’s big weekend
Thanks to all our members who contributed and participated to our APW Big Weekend events. Our Friday night tribute to Carol Griffee went very well. And even if Carol is not walking among us, she was still very much alive in the stories told by the more than two dozen...
General nembership meeting minutes
The minutes from the June 4 summer board meeting and general membership meeting are now available.
2011 Awards/Colloquium 411
Details now available on the 2011 Awards Confab/Colloquium. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Our scholarship winner
Erin Robertson, a journalism and English literature major at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, is the winner of this year’s APW scholarship. She has a 3.82 GPA and writes for The Arkansas Traveler and two online journalism sites, Ozarks Unbound and The Food...
NFPW HS Contest Results
This just in -- the NFPW High School Contest Awards. Here's the complete 2011 High School winners list. Congratulations to our Arkansas contestants! COLUMNS Honorable Mention: Kory T. Sexton, Bryant High School, Bryant, Ark., “Rotten Apple,” “Never hurts to ask,”...