2010 SPJ NW EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM CONTEST HONORING WORK PRODUCED IN 2010

MAY 2011

SPJ 2011 PAGE 1 The Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest is held annually by Region 10 of SPJ to honor exceptional journalism in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. The contest is open to SPJ members and nonmembers, and it includes all forms of media (print, online, radio and TV) and media organizations of all sizes. This year’s contest honors work produced or published in 2010. We received more than 2,500 entries from dozens of media organizations throughout the region which were then reviewed and rated by out-of-state judges. The awards that appear in the pages that follow are the results of this year’s contest. Congratulations to all of our 2010 SPJ award winners and to the editorial, design and production teams that helped make their work possible! Sincerely, Dana E. Neuts, freelance journalist SPJ Regional Director http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/region10/ [email protected]

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PAGE 2 SPJ 2011 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,000 or less

General Investigative Crime and Excellence Reporting Justice 1st Place 1st Place Reporting Staff Rachel Pritchett 1st Place The Daily News Kitsap Sun Tony Lystra 2nd Place “Cautionary Tales in the The Daily News Staff Complaint Files…” “A Rough Place to Detox” Mail Tribune 2nd Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Jacob Jones Tony Lystra Staff The Daily World The Daily News Bozeman Daily Chronicle “How Did Bridge “My Pride Got the Best of Comprehensive Problems Go Unnoticed?” Me” Coverage 3rd Place 3rd Place 1st Place Paul Gottlieb Marqise Allen Staff Peninsula Daily News The Chronicle Walla Walla Union- “Security Breach at Coast “Pe Ell Bullied By Brash Bulletin Guard Base Examined” Reserve Cop” “Gangs: A Legacy of Spot News Violence” Reporting 2nd Place 1st Place Don Jenkins Katie Wilson, Chelsea The News-Review Gorrow, Deeda Schroeder “A Spot ted Saga” The Daily Astorian 3rd Place “Waterfront Inferno” Daniel Person, Michael 2nd Place Gibney Tahlia Ganser Bozeman Daily Chronicle Skagit Valley Herald “A Predator’s “Tragedy at Tesoro” Welcome…” 3rd Place Mark Freeman Mail Tribune “Rogue Rage”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 3 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,000 or less

Government Education Health and Politics Reporting Reporting Reporting 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Rachel Schleif Mary Swift Mike Johnston The Wenatchee World Ellensburg Daily Record Ellensburg Daily Record “High School 2.0” “Are There Enough “Wind Questions” 2nd Place Physicians?” 2nd Place Mary Swift 2nd Place Dennis Roler, Jim Moore, Ellensburg Daily Record Rick Steigmeyer Stacy Stumbo, Patti “Math Matters” (three- The Wenatchee World Richter part series) “PTSD: The Invisible Grants Pass Daily Courier 3rd Place Wound” “Measuring the Public Rachel Schleif 3rd Place Payroll Package” The Wenatchee World Cheryll Borgaard, Bill 3rd Place “Backing Down Bullies Wagner Steve Gardner Isn’t Easy” The Daily News Kitsap Sun “State Medicaid Cuts “Tim Sheldon Makes No Threaten Oral Health” Apologies for Dual Roles”

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Environment Business Personalities and Science Reporting Reporting Reporting 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Jeff Graham Tristan Baurick Daniel Person Kitsap Sun Kitsap Sun Bozeman Daily Chronicle “The Business of Golf: “The Anchor of Eagle “A Predator’s Welcome” Kitsap’s Courses Land in Harbor” Recessionary Rough” 2nd Place 2nd Place Cassandra Profita 2nd Place Gail Schontzler The Daily Astorian Brandon Swanson Bozeman Daily Chronicle “Slinging Rotten Fish? It’s The Chronicle “Burned Body, Brave Enriching” “Bound by Blood” Spirit” 3rd Place 3rd Place 3rd Place Anne Creighton Erik Olson, Roger Werth Barbara Laboe, Andre The News-Review The Daily News Stepankowsky “Formosa Mine” “Flawed By Design” The Daily News “A World With Fewer Social Issues Adventurers” Reporting 1st Place Bennett Hall Corvallis Gazette-Times “Death in the Basement” 2nd Place Steve Lundeberg Albany Democrat-Herald “This Is My Country” 3rd Place Melissa Davlin Times-News “Autistic Adults”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 5 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,000 or less

Lifestyles Short Feature Long Feature Reporting Story (up to Story (more 1st Place 1,000 words) than 1,000 Ben Pierce 1st Place words) Bozeman Daily Chronicle Christina Henry 1st Place “Wild Goose Chase” Kitsap Sun Peggy O’Neill 2nd Place “Reaching 75th Independent Record Tahlia Ganser Anniversary Took ‘Hard “Forever Missing” Work and Luck’” Skagit Valley Herald 2nd Place “On The Road Again” 2nd Place Eve N. Byron 3rd Place Laurie Welch Independent Record Katie Wilson Times-News “Love Connection” “Gift From Below” The Daily Astorian 3rd Place “The Secret to Happiness 3rd Place K. C. Mehaffey is to Find Your Own Alice Campbell The Wenatchee World Niche” The World Newspaper “A Communit y’s Pain” “Amazing Grace” Arts Reporting 1st Place Ryan Johnston Ellensburg Daily Record “Bull in the ‘Burg” 2nd Place Steven Friederich The Daily World “A Burning Desire To Play” 3rd Place Ariel Hansen Times-News “Movie Night in a Small Town”

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Sports Sports Feature Sports Column Reporting Story 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Joe Sunnen Kevin Hampton Trevor Pyle The Bellingham Herald Corvallis Gazette-Times Skagit Valley Herald “Women’s Hockey a Two- “Going at us Emotionally” “Back on the Mat” team Race; Shot Down at the Hoop Shoot; Ayers 2nd Place 2nd Place Copes with Life After David Bashore Dennis Roler, Larry Football” Times-News Cathey “Athletic Departments Grants Pass Daily Courier 2nd Place Bracing For Crunch” “He Sees the Game in a Dennis Roler, Zach Urness Grants Pass Daily Courier 3rd Place Unique Way” “Stranded on Shasta; Tim Trower 3rd Place Tackling the Applegate; Mail Tribune John McDermott Fall’s the time” “Powers Played Through The News-Review Heartache” “Numbers Add Up For 3rd Place Baseball Team” Nathan Joyce Kitsap Sun “It’s Not Getting Any Easier Out There for a Coach”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 7 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,000 or less

Editorial & Page Design News Commentary 1st Place Photography 1st Place Kathleen Strecker (General and John M. Doran The Daily Astorian Spot News) Independent Record 2nd Place 1st Place 2nd Place Sheyna Watkins Erik Peterson Gary Nelson The Chronicle Bozeman Daily Chronicle Mail Tribune 3rd Place “Hail Storm” 3rd Place James Brooks 2nd Place Hasso Hering Fairbanks Daily News- Dan Jackson” Albany Democrat-Herald Miner The Daily World “Downtown Blaze” General Column Headlines 3rd Place 1st Place 1st Place Scobel Wiggins Dennis Roler, Staff Kathy Aney Corvallis Gazette-times Grants Pass Daily Courier East Oregonian “A Splash of Summer” 2nd Place 2nd Place Steve Crump Chip Dombrowski Feature Times-News The World Photography 3rd Place 3rd Place 1st Place Abby Holmes Max Charlton Don Seabrook The Wenatchee World The Daily Astorian The Wenatchee World “Light Show” 2nd Place Frank Varga Skagit Valley Herald “Layers of Light” 3rd Place Skip Nichols East Oregonian “Lightning”

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Portrait Photo Page, Graphics & Photography Story or Essay Illustrations 1st Place 1st Place (All circulation John Wagner Bob A. Pennell groups judged Fairbanks Daily News- Mail Tribune together) Miner “The Greatest Loss” 1st Place “Boy and Goose” 2nd Place Marsha Matta 2nd Place Eric Engman The Columbian MacLeod Pappidas Fairbanks Daily News- 2nd Place The Daily World Miner Greg Cross “He’s Abuzz About Bees” “Deployed” The Bulletin 3rd Place 3rd Place 3rd Place Eric Engman Brian Myrick Bob Kelton Fairbanks Daily News- Ellensburg Daily Record The Daily Herald Co. Miner “Yoga” Photo Portfolio 1st Place Sports Sean Sperry Photography Bozeman Daily Chronicle 1st Place 2nd Place Jamie Lusch Don Seabrook Mail Tribune The Wenatchee World “Showcase” 3rd Place 2nd Place Erick Petersen MacLeod Pappidas Bozeman Daily Chronicle The Daily World “Block Knocked Off” 3rd Place Dylan Brown Helena Independent Record “Not Just Horsing Around” SPJ 2011 PAGE 9 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,001 – 65,000

General Investigative Crime and Excellence Reporting Justice 1st Place 1st Place Reporting Staff Tracy Loew 1st Place Statesman Journal Statesman Journal Chris Bristol, Viviana Buzo 2nd Place “WESD’s Web of Deals” Yakima Herald-Republic Staff 2nd Place “Trail of Tragedy” Billings Gazette Nick Budnick 2nd Place 3rd Place The Bulletin Laura McVicker Staff “State Raises Questions, The Columbian The Bulletin Eyebrows with Plan to “Officially Free: After 17 Buy Land” Years Men Finally Shed Comprehensive Rape Charge” Coverage Spot News Reporting 3rd Place 1st Place Kristin Kraemer 1st Place Erin Middlewood Tri-City Herald Staff The Columbian “Dog Drama” “Coping With Cancer” Billings Gazette “Tornado Hits Billings” 2nd Place Staff 2nd Place The Columbian Jackson Holtz, Noah “Bethany Storro Case- Haglund Series” The Daily Herald Co. “Captured: Barefoot 3rd Place Bandit Harris-Moore’s Stacey Barchenger Luck Runs out in Statesman Journal Bahamas” “Turnidge Trial” 3rd Place Aaron Corvin The Columbian “Peacehealth Wants Its HQ here”

PAGE 10 SPJ 2011 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,001 – 65,000

Government Education Environment and Politics Reporting and Science Reporting 1st Place Reporting 1st Place Lauren Dake 1st Place Alan Gustafson The Bulletin Erin Snelgrove Statesman Journal “Foreign Exchanges” Yakima Herald-Republic “Crisis in Costs” 2nd Place “The Interstate 90 2nd Place Tracy Loew Construction Project: Noah Haglund Statesman Journal Breaking Down Barriers” The Daily Herald Co. “WESD and ESD Reform” 2nd Place “County’s Fines Fall Short 3rd Place Beth Casper, Stefanie of Solving Building Code Eric Stevick Knowlton Violations” The Daily Herald Co. Statesman Journal 3rd Place “Why More Girls Get “Running for Their Lives” Erik Robinson the Grades While Boys 3rd Place The Columbian Struggle in our Schools” Debra Smith “Inspections Spurs Alarm Health The Daily Herald Co. About Dams” Reporting “The Sludge Stops Here” 1st Place Markian Hawryluk The Bulletin “Under the Influence” 2nd Place Arnie Thompson Great Falls Tribune “A ‘Game’ to Beware” 3rd Place Staff Billings Gazette “Good Policy or Bad Medicine?”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 11 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,001 – 65,000

Business Social Issues Personalities Reporting Reporting Reporting 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Kathie Durbin Julia O’Malley Michelle Dunlop The Columbian Anchorage Daily News The Daily Herald Co. “Washington’s Wind “Hooked: One Addict’s “Boeing Jobs” Power Windfall” Story” 2nd Place 2nd Place 2nd Place Bill Sheets Hillary Borrud Debra Smith The Daily Herald Co. The Bulletin The Daily Herald Co. “John McCoy, Quil Ceda “Buying Up Bend” “Homeless Teen Goes to Village Helped Tulalips to 3rd Place College to Pursue Flight Prosperity” Aaron Corvin Dream” 3rd Place The Columbian 3rd Place Bill Sheets “Nautilus Looking for a Lauren Dake The Daily Herald Co. Comeback” The Bulletin “Eyman Expands His Business “Gang Violence, Grief” Reach” Column Lifestyles 1st Place Reporting Courtney Sherwood 1st Place The Columbian Staff 2nd Place Billings Gazette Mai Hoang “Agate Hunter” Yakima Herald-Republic 2nd Place 3rd Place Barbara Curtin Mike Benbow Statesman Journal The Daily Herald Co. “Letters From Mom” 3rd Place Barbara Curtin Statesman Journal “Tracking Our Family Roots” PAGE 12 SPJ 2011 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,001 – 65,000

Short Feature Long Feature Sports Story (up to Story (more Reporting 1,000 words) than 1,000 1st Place 1st Place words) Scott Sandsberry Scott Hewitt 1st Place Yakima Herald-Republic The Columbian Ben Salmon “Gray Matter” “Main Street in America The Bulletin 2nd Place Happy 234--and many “Music in His Genes” Aaron Swaney Happy Returns” 2nd Place The Daily Herald Co. 2nd Place Scott Sandsberry “Curling Hit Me in the Dori O’Neal Yakima Herald-Republic Hog’s Eye” Tri-City Herald “The Coincidental Divide” 3rd Place “Helping with Goodbye” 3rd Place Greg Jayne 3rd Place Scott Hewitt The Columbian Jackson Holtz The Columbian “Papermakers are Streak- The Daily Herald Co. “More Than Survival” Breakers” “Food Circus” Arts Reporting Sports Feature 1st Place Story Barbara Curtin 1st Place Statesman Journal Debra Smith “Will Art Fair Pay A The Daily Herald Co. Price? “Kenda Lenseigne, Top Rider from Sultan” 2nd Place Barbara Curtin 2nd Place Statesman Journal Kevin Anthony “Family Ties and All That Tri-City Herald Jazz” “Pilate’s Chiawana Family” 3rd Place Bill Speltz Missoulian

SPJ 2011 PAGE 13 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,001 – 65,000

Sports Column Page Design News 1st Place 1st Place Photography Matt Calkins Katie Mayer (General and The Columbian The Daily Herald Co. Spot News) 2nd Place 2nd Place 1st Place Greg Jayne Heather Rayhorn Larry Mayer The Columbian Statesman Journal Billings Gazette 3rd Place 3rd Place “Another Storm Coming” Bart Potter Merridee Hanson 2nd Place The Olympian The Columbian Timothy Gonzalez Editorial & Headlines Statesman Journal Commentary “All We Could Do Was 1st Place Watch” 1st Place Bob Sisson 3rd Place Dick Hughes The Columbian Statesman Journal Kurt Wilson 2nd Place Missoulian 2nd Place Colleen Keller “Falling Bear” Greg Jayne The Columbian The Columbian Feature 3rd Place Photography 3rd Place Rob Oster John Laird The Columbian 1st Place The Columbian Richard Dickin General Column Tri-City Herald “Bridge Sunset” 1st Place Lily Raff 2nd Place The Bulletin Mark Mulligan The Daily Herald Co. 2nd Place “Chicken Knife” Julia O’Malley Anchorage Daily News 3rd Place Steven Lane 3rd Place The Columbian K. Williams Brown “Adopt Me” Statesman Journal

PAGE 14 SPJ 2011 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 25,001 – 65,000

Portrait Photo Page, Photography Story or Essay 1st Place 1st Place Steven Lane Troy Wayrynen The Columbian The Columbian “Henderson Brother” “Coping with Cancer” 2nd Place 2nd Place Zachary Kauffman Casey Riffe The Columbian Billings Gazette “Boxer Virgil Green” “Abandoned 3rd Place Schoolhouses” Dan Bates 3rd Place The Daily Herald Co. Paul Ruhter “Building Donor” Billings Gazette Sports “Clubhouse Manager” Photography Photo Portfolio 1st Place 1st Place Jennifer Buchanan Kurt Wilson The Daily Herald Co. Missoulian “Vonn’s Gold” 2nd Place 2nd Place David Grubbs Steven Lane Billings Gazette The Columbian 3rd Place “Game Winner” Richard Dickin 3rd Place Tri-City Herald Bob Zellar Billings Gazette “Home Plate Collision”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 15 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 65,000+

General Investigative Crime and Excellence Reporting Justice 1st Place 1st Place Reporting Staff Michael Berens 1st Place The Oregonian The Seattle Times Ken Armstrong, Jonathan 2nd Place “Seniors for Sale” Martin Staff 2nd Place The Seattle Times The Seattle Times Sean Robinson “The Other Side of Mercy” 3rd Place The News Tribune Staff “Dale Washam” 2nd Place The Spokesman-Review 3rd Place Steve Mayes Les Zaitz, Nicole Dungca The Oregonian Comprehensive The Oregonian “Ashley’s Courage” Coverage “Secret Boy Scout Files” 3rd Place 1st Place Spot News Sara Jean Green Staff The Seattle Times The Oregonian Reporting “Helping Offenders Leave “Oregon’s Budget/Hard 1st Place Gang Life Behind” Choices” Lynn Thompson, Christine 2nd Place Clarridge, Miyoko Wolf Lornet Turnbull The Seattle Times The Seattle Times “Cambodian Grandma” “Invisible Families: The 2nd Place Homeless You Don’t See” Joseph Rose 3rd Place The Oregonian Kimberly A. C. Wilson “Aumsville Tornado” The Oregonian 3rd Place “Haiti” Bryan Denson The Oregonian “FBI Thwarts Terrorist Bombing”

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Government Education Environment and Politics Reporting and Science Reporting 1st Place Reporting 1st Place Nick Perry, Justin Mayo 1st Place Brent Walth The Seattle Times Craig Welch The Oregonian “Retired, Then Rehired…” The Seattle Times “Oregon’s Emergency 2nd Place “Smart and Fast, Marine Radio System, Entry #2” Debbie Cafazzo Mammals are Guarding 2nd Place The News Tribune Our Military Bases” Kyung Song “Lincoln High School” 2nd Place The Seattle Times 3rd Place Becky Kramer “Lobbyists are Sen. Hal Bernton The Spokesman-Review Murray’s Biggest Donors” The Seattle Times “Preserving a Giant” 3rd Place “Seattle Woman Builds a 3rd Place Staff Future for Girls Amid War Eric Mortenson The Oregonian in Afghanistan” The Oregonian “PolitiFact” Health Environment Reporting Reporting 1st Place Melissa Navas The Oregonian “A Mysterious Disease” 2nd Place Hal Bernton The Seattle Times “Steroid Use on the Rise in the Army” 3rd Place Don Colburn The Oregonian “Rebuilding Chrissy’s Face”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 17 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 65,000+

Business Social Issues Personalities Reporting Reporting Reporting 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Sanjay Bhatt, Jennifer Alison Boggs Marc Ramirez, Sanjay LaFluer, Genevieve The Spokesman-Review Bhatt Alvarez “Dying to Live at Home” The Seattle Times The Seattle Times 2nd Place “Market Family Loses “Foreclosures don’t Lornet Turnbull a Beloved Fixture: a always follow script” The Seattle Times Cranky, Reliable Enigma” 2nd Place “Invisible families: The 2nd Place Christine Wilmsen, Kristi homeless You Don’t See” Gabriel Campanario Heim, Steve Miletich 3rd Place The Seattle Times The Seattle Times Nancy Haught “Seattle Sketcher | South “Broken rules, a failed The Oregonian Park Loses a Lifeline” deal and a frenzy over “A Portland Priest” 3rd Place Olympics tickets” Nikole Hannan-Jones 3rd Place The Oregonian Richard Read “Giving Away $100 A The Oregonian Day” “The Sands of Canada” Business Column 1st Place Brent Hunsberger The Oregonian 2nd Place Brier Dudley The Seattle Times 3rd Place Bill Virgin The News Tribune

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Lifestyles Long Feature Arts Reporting Reporting Story (more 1st Place 1st Place than 1,000 Marty Hughley Kevin Graman words) The Oregonian The Spokesman-Review 1st Place “Five Pieces: Arts “In A Family Way” Tyrone Beason Reporting” 2nd Place The Seattle Times 2nd Place Kimberly A. C. Wilson “Soul-stirring Walks Mike Dunham The Oregonian Through Jerusalem’s Anchorage Daily News “A Backyard Gardener” Maze of Religion and “Homesteader’s Politics” Mysterious Art” 3rd Place Craig Hill 2nd Place 3rd Place The News Tribune Sonia Krishnan Misha Berson “Family Road Trips” The Seattle Times The Seattle Times “Two Lives Lost, a Third “Love and Talent Bloom Short Feature Forever Changed” Onstage for Seattle Story (up to 3rd Place Actors” 1,000 words) Mike Dunham 1st Place Anchorage Daily News Mark Baker “Forgotten Battlefield” The Register-Guard “No Leaving a Beaver” 2nd Place Lynda V. Mapes The Seattle Times “Tiny Bird Song” 3rd Place Linda Shaw The Seattle Times “Local Schools Go Global”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 19 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 65,000+

Sports Sports Feature Editorial & Reporting Story Commentary 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Geoff Baker Sandy Ringer Susan Nielsen The Seattle Times The Seattle Times The Oregonian “Coach Says Mariners “Former Meadowdale 2nd Place were Told of Josh Lueke’s Softball Player Fighting Lance Dickie Criminal Past” Hard to Beat the Odds” The Seattle Times 2nd Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Greg Bolt Doug Pacey Joni Balter The Register-Guard The News Tribune The Seattle Times “Feeding the Green “A Different World” Machine” 3rd Place General Column 3rd Place Jerry Brewer 1st Place Danny O’Neil The Seattle Times Steve Duin The Seattle Times “Unexpected Son, The Oregonian “When NFL Players Dive Unexpected Mother” 2nd Place for a Loose Ball…” Sports Column Lynne Varner The Seattle Times 1st Place Steve Kelley 3rd Place The Seattle Times Shawn Vestal The Spokesman-Review 2nd Place Jerry Brewer The Seattle Times 3rd Place Bud Withers The Seattle Times

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Page Design News Portrait 1st Place Photography Photography Jody Stott (General and 1st Place The Oregonian Spot News) John Lok 2nd Place 1st Place The Seattle Times Wayne Begasse Jim Bates “Tied to the Land” The Seattle Times The Seattle Times 2nd Place 3rd Place “Seattle’s Rowdy Night Greg Gilbert Bob Warcup Life” The Seattle Times The Seattle Times 2nd Place “Tucker” Headlines Alan Berner 3rd Place The Seattle Times Erika Schultz 1st Place “Shoplifter Flees Mall The Seattle Times Jake Arnold Security” “Singer Amy Denio” The Oregonian 3rd Place Sports 2nd Place Jamie Francis Photography Bill Kossen The Oregonian The Seattle Times “Trinity Smith” 1st Place Mike Siegel 3rd Place Feature The Seattle Times Bob McEwen Photography “Olympics Ski Crash” The Oregonian 1st Place 2nd Place Motoya Nakamura Thomas Boyd The Oregonian The Oregonian “A Life Changed” “The Red Head” 2nd Place 3rd Place Steve Ringman Dan Pelle The Seattle Times The Spokesman-Review “Flooding Fog” “Snowball’s Chance” 3rd Place Beth Nakamura The Oregonian “Katie Lucas”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 21 Daily Newspapers Circulation of 65,000+

Photo Page, Story or Essay 1st Place Dan Pelle, Liz Kishimoto, Jody Lawrence-Turner The Spokesman-Review “Carissa Outen” 2nd Place Bruce Ely The Oregonian “Haiti Photo Essay” 3rd Place Alan Berner The Seattle Times “It’s a Grand Old Flag” Photo Portfolio 1st Place Jamie Boyd The Oregonian 2nd Place Erika Schultz The Seattle Times 3rd Place Alan Berner The Seattle Times

PAGE 22 SPJ 2011 Alternative Weeklies

General Crime and Government Excellence Justice and Political 1st Place Reporting Reporting Staff 1st Place 1st Place Seattle Weekly Kevin Taylor Nigel Jaquiss 2nd Place The Pacific Northwest Willamette Week Staff Inlander “Dr. Do Over” Willamette Week “Kid Crime, Adult Time” 2nd Place Investigative 2nd Place Hank Stern, Beth Slovic, Caleb Hannan Nigel Jaquiss, James Reporting Seattle Weekly Pitkin 1st Place “Streetwise He Wasn’t” Willamette Week Beth Slovic 3rd Place “Cop Out” Willamette Week Jacob Fries, Nicholas 3rd Place “Sext Crimes” Deshais, Kevin Taylor Nigel Jaquiss 2nd Place The Pacific Northwest Willamette Week Caleb Hannan Inlander “Class Warfare” Seattle Weekly “Shot and Killed” “Watching the Protestors” 3rd Place Jacob Fries The Pacific Northwest Inlander “Reasonable Doubt”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 23 Alternative Weeklies

Environment Health Education and Science Reporting Reporting Reporting 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Caleb Hannan Beth Slovic Camilla Mortensen, Seattle Weekly Willamette Week Shannon Finnell, Alex “Load Warriors” “Extra Credit” Zielinski 2nd Place 2nd Place Eugene Weekly Nicholas Deshais Joel Smith “Freshwater Fisticuffs/Cry The Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest Me a River” Inlander Inlander 2nd Place “Bad Medicine” “Five Lessons from Local Caleb Hannan 3rd Place Schools” Seattle Weekly Jason Cruz 3rd Place “Atom’s Eve” Northwest Asian Weekly Tiffany Ryan 3rd Place “Medical Tourism: the Northwest Asian Weekly Nigel Jaquiss Next Reform in Health “Will School Board Willamette Week Care?” Member Step Down Due “Green Giant” Social Issues to Controversial E-mail?” Reporting 1st Place Ben Fogelson Eugene Weekly “Taking Mom Home” 2nd Place James Pitkin Willamette Week “Saving Ryan” 3rd Place Caleb Hannan Seattle Weekly “Downed by Law”

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Arts Reporting Lifestyles Business 1st Place Reporting Reporting Luke Baumgarten 1st Place 1st Place The Pacific Northwest Rick Levin Matthew Frank Inlander Eugene Weekly Missoula Independent “American Idol” “Desperately Seeking “Green Rush” 2nd Place Sasquatch” 2nd Place Vivian Luu 2nd Place Caleb Hannan Northwest Asian Weekly Brett Cihon Seattle Weekly “‘Glamorous, Elegant, Weekly Volcano “Lush Lie” Timeless, Revolutionary,’ “Gia is an Escort” Sports Pearls of Wisdom from 3rd Place Reporting The Shanghai Pearl…” Jordy Byrd 1st Place 3rd Place The Pacific Northwest Alex Sakariassen Caleb Hannan Inlander Missoula Independent Seattle Weekly “Off the Rack” “A Call For Help” “Thread Man Walking” Personalities 2nd Place Reporting Caleb Hannan Seattle Weekly 1st Place “Free in the Key” Caleb Hannan Seattle Weekly 3rd Place “Meet Robert Gagno, the Leah Sottile Rain Man of Pinball” The Pacific Northwest Inlander 2nd Place “Blood Sport” Aaron Mesh Willamette Week “Mock Star”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 25 Alternative Weeklies

Editorial & Portrait Commentary Photography 1st Place 1st Place Mark Lee Caleb Hannan Northwest Asian Weekly Seattle Weekly 2nd Place “The John Report” Robert Herold 2nd Place The Pacific Northwest Darryl James Inlander Willamette Week Page Design “Quake Up Call” 3rd Place 1st Place Todd Cooper Caleb Hannan Eugene Weekly Seattle Weekly “Fighting Fossil Fools” 2nd Place Chris Bovey Graphics and The Pacific Northwest Illustrations Inlander 1st Place Photography Caleb Hannan Seattle Weekly 1st Place “Spring Arts Guide; Young Kwak Atomic Reboot; Seattle’s The Pacific Northwest Finest Happy Hours” Inlander 2nd Place 2nd Place Caleb Hannan Caleb Hannen Seattle Weekly Seattle Weekly “Casanova Con” “Free At Last” 3rd Place Lukas Ketner Willamette Week

PAGE 26 SPJ 2011 Non-daily Newspapers (not including the SW Washington/Oregon Chapter)

General Spot News Government Excellence Reporting and Politics 1st Place 1st Place Reporting Staff Carrie E. Wood 1st Place The Issaquah Press Kirkland Reporter Greg Lamm, Steve 2nd Place “Medical Marijuana Wilhelm, Steve Goldsmith Staff Lobbyist Protects Life From Puget Sound Business Catholic Northwest Home Invasion Robbers” Journal Progress 2nd Place “The New Guard” 3rd Place Trevon Milliard 2nd Place Staff Idaho Mountain Express Warren Kagarise Tahoma Audubon Society “Ketchum Loses One of its The Issaquah Press Own” “Battleground for General News 3rd Place Legislature Runs Through Coverage Warren Kagarise Issaquah” 1st Place The Issaquah Press 3rd Place Carrie E. Wood, Matt “All Hell Broke Loose” Dan Catchpole Phelps, Kevin Opsahl SnoValley Star Kirkland Reporter “Deputy Wages” “Milkin Murders; Rebuilding a Life and Home” 2nd Place Myke Folger Queen Anne News/ Magnolia News “Death in Question” 3rd Place Ryan Wynne The Bellingham Business Journal “State Budget Cut Series”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 27 Non-daily Newspapers (not including the SW Washington/Oregon Chapter)

Education Health Business Reporting Reporting Reporting 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Kevin Bimbaum Wesley Remmer Kirsten Grind Catholic Northwest Central Kitsap Reporter Puget Sound Business Progress “Underage and Inked in Journal “Bishops Promote Abuse Central Kitsap” “Seized and Sold…” Prevention” 2nd Place 2nd Place 2nd Place David Hayes Kirsten Grind, Jeanne Laura Geggel The Issaquah Press Lang Jones The Issaquah Press “Atrial Fibrilation” Puget Sound Business “Crash Safety” 3rd Place Journal 3rd Place Trevon Milliard “Deals Burn Fisher Heirs’ Carrie E. Wood Idaho Mountain Express Fortune” Kirkland Reporter “Seeking a ‘Reef’ 3rd Place “Bullying Incidents on the Recovery” Breanne Coats Rise…” Environment The Business Examiner and Science “Bad Medicine” Reporting 1st Place Laura Geggel The Issaquah Press “Windy Weather” 2nd Place Ari Cetron Sammamish Review “Invention Mops up Oil in Gulf” 3rd Place Warren Kagarise The Issaquah Press “City Makes History” PAGE 28 SPJ 2011 Non-daily Newspapers (not including the SW Washington/Oregon Chapter)

Social Issues Personalities Lifestyles Reporting Reporting Reporting 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Clay Holtzman Steve Wilhelm Trevon Milliard Puget Sound Business Puget Sound Business Idaho Mountain Express Journal Journal “Night Crawlers” “Unitus Donors Seeking “Back from the Depths: 2nd Place Answers” The Untold Story of Mic Katherine Luck 2nd Place Dinsmore’s Lost Years” Journal Newspapers Julie Pham 2nd Place “Marathon Men and Northwest Vietnamese Katie Murdoch Women” News The Enterprise 3rd Place “Vietnamese Discuss the Newspaper Matt Phelps Death with Dignity Law in “Mill Creek Sisters Shine Kirkland Reporter Washington” in PNB Spotlight” “The King of Kong Takes 3rd Place 3rd Place His Place…” Katherine Luck Sue Ellen White Journal Newspapers The Whidbey Examiner Sports “Bullying Gone Viral” “Whidbey Researcher Reporting Targets Bee Diseases” 1st Place David Pan The Enterprise Newspaper “Loving the Line” 2nd Place Michael Dashiell Sequim Gazette “A Mind for Design” 3rd Place Katherine Luck Journal Newspapers “A League of Their Own”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 29 Non-daily Newspapers (not including the SW Washington/Oregon Chapter)

Editorial and Page Design Feature Commentary 1st Place Photography 1st Place Sarah Burk 1st Place Roger Harnack The Liberty Lake Splash Roger Harnack The Omak-Okanogan 2nd Place The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle Jenny O’Brien County Chronicle “Security Edit Erodes Puget Sound Business “Maiden Voyage” Way of Life” Journal 2nd Place Roger Harnack 2nd Place 3rd Place The Omak-Okanogan Jocelyn Robinson Roger Harnack, Al Camp County Chronicle The Enterprise The Omak-Okanogan “Barter Faire” Newspaper County Chronicle “Olson’s ‘Nazi’ Comment 3rd Place Was Out Of Line” News Michael Dashiell 3rd Place Photography Sequim Gazette Ari Cetron 1st Place “A Great Snow Fall” Sammamish Review Chris Goodenow Sports “Sen Pflug Needs to The Enterprise Photography Newspaper Show Up” 1st Place “Apartment Fire in Al Camp General Column Lynnwood” The Omak-Okanogan 1st Place 2nd Place County Chronicle Matthew Wilemski Al Camp “Flip Flops Flying” North Seattle Herald- The Omak-Okanogan Outlook 2nd Place County Chronicle Al Camp “Blaze Levels Rural The Omak-Okanogan Home” County Chronicle 3rd Place “Ace the Bull” Dan Schlatter 3rd Place Puget Sound Business Damian Mulinix Journal The Chinook Observer “Ripple Effects from Gulf” “In the Pit at the Three Course Challenge” PAGE 30 SPJ 2011 Non-daily Newspapers (not including the SW Washington/Oregon Chapter)

Photo Portfolio 1st Place Damian Mulinix The Chinook Observer 2nd Place Al Camp The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle 3rd Place Chad Coleman Bellevue Reporter/Sound Publishing

SPJ 2011 PAGE 31 Magazines

General Government Science Excellence and Politics and Health 1st Place Reporting Reporting Staff 1st Place 1st Place Seattle Magazine Rachel Ritchie, Randy James Ross Gardner 2nd Place Gragg Seattle Met Staff Portland Monthly “Vital Signs” Portland Monthly Magazine 2nd Place Magazine “Crossing Guard” Staff 3rd Place 2nd Place Seattle Met Staff Eric Scigliano “Better Body, Better Brain, South Sound Magazine Seattle Met Better You” “The Devil’s Advocate” General 3rd Place 3rd Place Scott Driscoll Reporting Eric Scigliano Horizon Air Magazine 1st Place Seattle Met “Digital Medicine” James Ross Gardner “The Silence of Ressam” Seattle Met Social Issues “Fairview Fanny and the Environmental Reporting Angel of Death” Affairs 1st Place 2nd Place 1st Place Rachel Ritchie Rachel Ritchie, David Eric Lucas Portland Monthly Wolman, Randy Gragg Horizon Air Magazine Magazine Portland Monthly “Condor Camp” “God Is…” Magazine 2nd Place 2nd Place “Branch Science” Eric Scigliano James Ross Gardner 3rd Place Seattle Met Seattle Met Matthew Halverson “Sea Change” “School of Knox” Seattle Met 3rd Place 3rd Place “Turnover” Maria Dolan Trevon Milliard Seattle Magazine Idaho Mountain Express “How Green Is My “Generation Lost?” Thumb?” PAGE 32 SPJ 2011 Magazines

Personalities Personal Magazine 1st Place Service Departments Rachel Ritchie, Stacey Reporting 1st Place Wilson 1st Place Matthew Halverson Portland Monthly Lisa Patterson Seattle Met Magazine 425 Magazine Quote UnQuote “Becoming Nicole” “Tangled Web – 2nd Place 2nd Place Communication is Key Nicole Meoli Harris Meyer to Keeping Kids Safe AAA Washington/ Super Lawyers Online” Journey Magazine “The Green River Killer’s 2nd Place “Journey Last Stop” Lawyer” Wenda Reed 3rd Place 3rd Place Seattle Woman Kathryn Robinson Rachel Ritchie, Jason Magazine Seattle Met Cohen, Kasey Cordell] “Taking Control of Pre- “Back Fence” Portland Monthly Diabetes” Travel Magazine 3rd Place “The Game Changer” Jennifer Haupt Reporting Horizon Air Magazine 1st Place “Retirement Living” Lisa Patterson 425 Magazine “Camping – Roughing It = Glamping” 2nd Place Nicole Meoli AAA Washington/ Journey Magazine “Journey New York City” 3rd Place Nicole Meoli AAA Washington/ Journey Magazine “Journey Ashland” SPJ 2011 PAGE 33 Magazines

Leisure and Arts and Business and Lifestyle Entertainment Consumer Reporting Reporting Affairs 1st Place 1st Place Reporting Rachel Ritchie, Brian Brangien Davis, Dana 1st Place Barker Standish Nick Horton Portland Monthly Seattle Magazine Seattle Business Magazine “Fall Arts Preview” “Where There’s a Drill, “Welcome to Beervana” 2nd Place There’s a Way” 2nd Place Laura Dannen 2nd Place Moira Macdonald Seattle Met Cheryl Murfin The Seattle Times/Pacific “Tasting Menu of Fall Seattle Woman NW Arts” Magazine “Seattle Designer Luly 3rd Place “The Doula Business” Yang…” Jenny Zappala 3rd Place 3rd Place 425 Magazine Bill Richards Allison Scheff, Lorna Yee, “Backstage Pass – Seattle Business Grace Geiger, Lauren Kirkland’s Studio East is “A Shell Game” Lynch Bigger and Better” Sports Seattle Magazine “Meat of the Matter” Reporting 1st Place Matthew Halverson Seattle Met “Turnover” 2nd Place Meri-Jo Borzilleri Seattle Met “Lucky Guy” 3rd Place Roddy Scheer Seattle Magazine “Ice Age”

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Editorial and Cover Design Cartoons and Commentary 1st Place Illustrations 1st Place Nancy O’Connell 1st Place Bill Virgin Horizon Air Magazine Ivanna C. Sukkar Seattle Business October Issue Scotsman Guide Media “Burning the Compact” 2nd Place “Don’t Need No 2nd Place Jason Blackheart, Michael Education? Think Again” Knute Berger Novak (residential edition) Seattle Magazine Portland Monthly 2nd Place “Going Medievel” Magazine Ivanna C. Sukkar Food Carts Cover 3rd Place Scotsman Guide Media Chris Winters 3rd Place “Catch Business With Seattle Business Jason Blackheart Triple-Net Lease” “Dear Howard” Portland Monthly (commercial edition) Magazine 3rd Place Headlines “Best Shools” Denny Lester 1st Place Spread Design/ Independent Record Staff “Hikes with Tykes” Seattle Magazine Photo Essay 1st Place Sports 2nd Place Photography Staff Benjamen Purvis Alaska Airlines Magazine Seattle Met 1st Place “Fairview Fanny and the Jeff Schultz 3rd Place Angel of Death” Alaska Airlines Magazine Ethan Chung, Lisa “The Great Race” Patterson 2nd Place 425 Magazine Benjamen Purvis Seattle Met “High Schools” 3rd Place Jason Blackheart Portland Monthly Magazine “Shape Shifters”

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Feature Photography 1st Place Jason Blackheart Portland Monthly Magazine “The Rugger” 2nd Place Erik Skaar, Benjamen Purvis Seattle Met “Food Lover’s Guide to Seattle”

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Spot News Special Report/ Arts/ 1st Place Enterprise Entertainment/ Kirsten Grind, Alwyn 1st Place Lifestyle Scott, Kelly Gilblom Carol Smith and Staff 1st Place Puget Sound Business InvestigateWest Karen Aho Journal “Generation Homeless” MSN Real Estate “Former WAMU Leaders 2nd Place “How to Find a Safe Testify” Staff Neighborhood” 2nd Place The Columbian 2nd Place Staff “The Volcano Next Door” Leah L. Culler Billings Gazette 3rd Place MSN Real Estate “Tornado Destroys Staff “Million-dollar Mobile MetraPark Arena” The Spokesman-Review Homes” 3rd Place “Flame and Ruin: The 3rd Place Levi Pulkkinen Fires of 1910” Jean Lenihan SeattlePI.com Crosscut Publishing “Haitian Evacuee: ‘We “Sleeping Beauty: Lost Everything’” Ronald Hynes’ Production Nails It”

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Business Commentary Video 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Melinda Fulmer Pete Jackson Carol Smith, Mike Kane, MSN Real Estate Crosscut.com Rita Hibbard “Should You Feel Guilty If “Who Will Speak Up For InvestigateWest You Walk Away?” Seattle Cartoonist Under “Voices from the Street” 2nd Place Fatwa Threat?” 2nd Place Ronald Holden 2nd Place Genevieve Alvarez, Mike Crosscut.com Kai-Huei Yau Berens, Alan Berner “Online Coupons: Fatal Tri-City Herald The Seattle Tims Fever” “Behind the Fold” “Seniors for Sale, 3rd Place Slideshow Suspicious Deaths” Scott Schaefer, Ralph 3rd Place 1st Place Nichols Amanda Determan Beth Nakamura LOL Dudez, LLC Helena Independent The Oregonian “The B-Town Blog: Record “Learning to Slaughter” Coverage of Burien Town “Strangers on a Hill” Square” 2nd Place Sports Joshua Trujillo SeattlePI.com 1st Place “Airlift Out of Quake- Stephanie Clary, Tiffany Ravaged Haiti” Campbell, Genevieve Alvarez 3rd Place The Seattle Times Harriet Baskas “Olympic Outsiders” Reel Woman Productions “Really Big Things You 2nd Place Can’t Miss” Staff Billings Gazette “GazPrepSports” 3rd Place Staff The Seattle Times

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Interactive Best New Site Innovation graphic or 1st Place Award resource Travis Hay 1st Place 1st Place Guerilla Candy The Seattle Times Judy Stanley 2nd Place “Graffiti Special Report” The Daily Herald Co. Michael Becker, Rob 2nd Place Colton’s Odyssey Potter, Bruce Stucker Staff 2nd Place Bozeman Daily Chronicle Statesman Journal Marsha Matta 3rd Place WESD’s Web of Deal The Columbian Amy Duncan 3rd Place Mount St. Helens Victims MyGreenLake.com Steve Ringman 3rd Place Best Online The Seattle Times Carol Smith, Brian Chin Community “Images of Fall” InvestigateWest Best Site, “Homeless Students by Engagement School District (a map)” 1st Place General News Tracy Record 1st Place Best Web West Seattle Blog Staff Design 2nd Place The Spokesman-Review 1st Place Mark Briggs Spokesman.com Doug Parry KING5.com 2nd Place The Daily Herald Co. 3rd Place Jerry Wakefield HeraldNet.com Amy Duncan The Olympian 2nd Place MyGreenLake.com TheOlympian.com Ryan Pitts 3rd Place The Spokesman-Review Mark Briggs Election Center KING5.com 3rd Place Mark Briggs KING5.com

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Best Site, Best Site, Specialized Specialized Subject Geography 1st Place (hyperlocal) Scott Heisel, Andre 1st Place Stepankowsky, Mike Staff Rogers LOL Dudez, LLC The Daily News The B-Town Blog Mount St. Helens 30th 2nd Place Anniversary Carlos Virgen, Katrina 2nd Place Barlow Scott Sistek Walla Wall Union-Bulletin KOMO-TV Voices from the Walla “Partly to Mostly Bloggin’” Walla Valley 3rd Place 3rd Place Sharyn Decker Justin Carder Lewis County Sirens CHS Capitol Hill Seattle, The Cop and Fire Beat LLC CapitolHillSeattle.com Best Parent Site 1st Place Doug Parry The Daily Herald Co. HeraldNet.com 2nd Place Staff Statesman Journal StatesmanJournal.com 3rd Place Staff Billings Gazette BillingsGazette.com

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Spot News Feature News Investigative Reporting Reporting Reporting 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Ursula Reutin Tom Banse Austin Jenkins KIRO Radio Northwest News Network Northwest News Network “West Seattle Massacre” “Unfinished Journey: “Wash. Welfare: Debit 2nd Place Historic Documents Trace Cards Used At Strip Emilie R. Ritter Immigrants’ Remains Long Clubs/Welfare Clients Montana Public Radio Trip Home” Charged ATM Fees” “Trooper David DeLaittre” 2nd Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Anna King Heather Bosch Adam Cotterell Northwest News Network KIRO Radio Boise State Public Radio “Northwest Cattle Rustling “Deadly Medicine” “Silbsy Returns” Spike Spurs Crackdown” 3rd Place 3rd Place Doug Nadvornick, Harris General News Ursula Reutin Meyer Reporting KIRO Radio Northwest News Network 1st Place “Helicopter Parents” “Collection Tactics Lead Ursula Reutin, KIRO FM Some Debtors to Jail” Staff KIRO Radio “Craigslist Murder” 2nd Place Keith Seinfeld KPLU “Surgical Checklists Make Operations Safer in Washington” 3rd Place Guy Hand Boise State Public Radio “The Backyard Chicken Invasion” SPJ 2011 PAGE 41 Radio

Special Report 1st Place Staff Oregon Public Broadcasting “Getting Back to Work” 2nd Place Austin Jenkins, Ken Armstrong, Jonathon Martin Northwest News Network “Maurice Clemmons: Jail Tapes” 3rd Place Staff KPAM 860 “Kyron Horman”

PAGE 42 SPJ 2011 Television Markets 1 to 120

General News Investigative Special Report/ Reporting Reporting Documentary 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place John Sharify, Doug Burgess Kellie Cheadle, Susannah Molly Shen, Neil Ikeda, KINGTV Frame, Steve Douglas, Wayne White, Michele “Complete Picture” Doug Burgess Morin 2nd Place KINGTV KOMO TV Kellie Cheadle, Susannah “Waste on the Water” “Inside the Burn Unit” Frame, Steve Douglas, 2nd Place 2nd Place Doug Burgess Kellie Cheadle, Chris Bruce Reichert, Sauni KINGTV Ingalls, Steve Douglas Symonds, Pat Metzler, Jay “Waste on the Water” KINGTV Krajic 3rd Place “Their Crime, Your Dime” Idaho Public Television John Sharify, Scott Jensen 3rd Place “Capitol of Light” KINGTV Kellie Cheadle, Chris 3rd Place “Sign of Times” Ingalls, Steve Douglas Staff Feature News KINGTV Idaho Public Television “Suburban Sweatshop” Outdoor Idaho: Reporting Wilderness in the 21st 1st Place Century John Sharify, Doug Burgess KINGTV “Prodigy” 2nd Place John Sharify, Doug Burgess KINGTV “Gifts of Love” 3rd Place Jane McCarthy, Dan Jackson KREM-TV “Where’s The Beef?”

SPJ 2011 PAGE 43 Television Markets 121 to 210

Sports Reporting 1st Place John Crancer, Jay Krajic, Jeff Beaman, Bruce Reichert Idaho Public Television “Outdoor Idaho: Hometown Ski Hills” 2nd Place John Sharify, Doug Burgess KING TV “Fast Track” 3rd Place John Sharify, Doug Burgess KING TV “Snow Leopard”

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General General News Feature News Excellence Reporting Reporting 1st Place 1st Place 1st Place Staff Kelly Koopmans, Loren Chelsea Kopta KIMA Action News Ruark, Rob Woodward KEPR TV 2nd Place KVAL-TV “Alpacas Help Gulf Staff “The Silent Epidemic: Coast” KEPR Action News Traumatic Brain Injury 2nd Place in the Oregon National David Klugh 3rd Place Guard” Staff Fisher TV KTVQ 2nd Place “700,000 Mile Cougar” Lindsey Scheetz 3rd Place Spot News KULR-8 TV Corrina Pysa Reporting “Trooper Funeral” KFBB 1st Place 3rd Place “Special Bond Gives David Walker, Loren Marnee Banks Strength to Local Woman Ruark KXLH Living With Autism” KVAL-TV “Russian Cargo Plane” “Amsville Tornado” Investigative Reporting 2nd Place Molly Kelleher 1st Place Fisher TV Timothy Lankford “Canal Break” KFBB-TV NewsChannel 5 Scam 3rd Place Alert Laura Rillos, Loren Ruark KVAL-TV 2nd Place “Downtown Bomb Threat” Jennifer Winters, Rob Woodward KVAL-TV Tim Fox Complaints

SPJ 2011 PAGE 45 Television Markets 121 to 210 Special Report/ Sports Photojournalism Documentary Reporting (Feature or 1st Place 1st Place News) Lauren Allison, Elissa Zachary Glover 1st Place Harrington, Adam KFBB-TV Sarah Gravlee Grunseth, Loren Ruark “Head Case: Under the KULR-8 TV KVAL-TV Helmet” “Haiti: Montana “Bullying” 2nd Place Responds” 2nd Place Dirk Weishaar 2nd Place Dan Boyce KVAL-TV Bill Goetz, Kristina KBZK-TV “Sibling Rivalry” Nelson “Face the State: Barney 3rd Place KVAL-TV Old Coyote” Jason Carter “Crosswalk: Near Death” 3rd Place KMVT-TV 3rd Place Kelly Koopmans, Loren “Riley Schindle” Evan Bell, Steven Ruark, Rob Woodward Sandberg KVAL-TV KDRV-TV “A Slient Epidemic: “Liberty Belle Takes Flight” Traumatic Brain Injury in The Oregon National Guard”

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