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From APW and BeyondNFPW 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,”...
June 3 Griffee Tribute Update
The latest on APW's summer events can be found on the 2011 Confab page: http://arkpresswomen.wordpress.com/2011-awards-confab/
Congratulations to Malea Hargett!
Congratulations to longtime member Malea Hargett, for her election as secretary of the national Catholic Press Association! Malea has been APW's scholarship chairman since 2004.
Got research?
Got research? The call for papers is about to go out for the second annual 2011 APW Best Brains Mass Communications research colloquium and awards event. Stay tuned.
… and the winners are:
Congratulations to the winners of year's APW High School Journalism Contest! NEWS 1. Amber Rolland – Buffalo Island Central - "Seniors spend summer at MASH, Girls State” 2. Erika Wyatt – Bryant High School – “The Pickering era” 3. Jasmin Merlos – Rogers High School –...
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Student government campaigns have changed a lot in a couple of decades. In my college days, hand lettered posters, banners made from bedsheets and a megaphone were the tools of the trade. These folks have become followers of APW on Twitter. And maybe it's just been a...
In memory: Maudine Sanders
Thanks to Debbie Miller for forwarding this obit on Maudine Sanders: Maudine Sanders, Former Newspaper Owner, Dies By Steve Caraway scaraway@nwaonline.com SPRINGDALE — Maudine Sanders, 87, an owner of the Springdale News, died Friday. Sanders worked at...
2011 Comms Contest-UPDATE
APW Contest Sherpa Debbie Miller says she counted between 170-180 entries for the 2011 APW Communications Contest. That's up from the 166 we had last year, which was down slightly from the 2009 total.
UPDATE-Scholarship donations
Treasurer Terry Hawkins gave us an update on donations to the APW scholarship fund in Carol Griffee's name. Thanks to our generous donors, all familiar names to us: Bill Simmons University of Arkansas Department of Journalism The Jonesboro Sun Mack McLarty Steve...
NOMINATE! Local hero for Sunshine Week
Thanks to Brenda Blagg, FOI defender par excellence, for sending this reminder: The national Sunshine Week organization is repeating the "Local Heroes Contest" conducted first in 2010. Sunshine Week is intended to call attention to the freedom of information and help...