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Three FLS editors win national press awards
Three staffers at The Free Lance-Star win national awardsDate published: 6/17/2009 BY CATHY JETT Three editors at The Free Lance-Star have won national awards for excellence in the communications field. Winners will be recognized in September at the annual National Federation of Press Women communications conference, which will be held in San Antonio, Texas. NFPW is a nationwide organization of professional journalists and communicators. Entrants in its communications contest all must have won first-place awards at the state level. Cathy Jett, assistant business editor, won a first place in investigative reporting for articles on car-title loans and a third in the special series category for American Dream, an occasional series on immigrant entrepreneurs. Linda J. White, assistant editorial page editor, won a first place in the editorial/opinion category for daily newspapers for a piece on the the Mary Washington Hospital director of pharmacy's potential appearance of a conflict of interest because he also speaks on behalf of pharmaceutical companies and specific drugs. Gwen R. Woolf, editor of The Free Lance-Star's Town & County magazine, received an honorable mention for her editing of Town & County. The category was regular or frequent sections edited by the entrant for a daily newspaper. Five other women with area ties also were among the 26 members of NFPW-affiliate Virginia Press Women who won awards. They are: Barbara Crookshanks, a freelance writer and food columnist for Nurturing Parent magazine, honorable mention, special articles, Rotating Subject: Planet Earth. Teresa Mannix, former director of news and public information at the University of Mary Washington first, internal communications. Donna Harter Raab, UMW's director of development communications, second places for a four-color brochure and a general report, and an honorable mention for audiovisuals, video production. Marty van Duyne, a Stafford County freelance writer, first for a news photo, and second places for editorial/opinion and a sports photo. All three were in the non-daily newspaper category. Pat Wilson, a Louisa County freelance writer, honorable mention, special articles, history. Cathy Jett: 540/374-5407
Date published: 6/17/2009
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