Communication Contest
NMPW holds an annual New Mexico Media and Communications contest. The deadline for the 2004 contest was Dec. 15, 2003. 2004 Contest Winners are listed below.
The next contest will cover work done in 2004 and will
have a December 15, 2004, deadline. Contest participants
do not have to be a member of New Mexico Press Women.
It is an open competition, and work will be judged by
impartial out-of-state media and communication professions.
This is an opportunity for your work to be critiqued
and judged against comparable work statewide.
2005 Contest
Rules & Entry
Form.
NMPW Announces 2004 Contest Winners
ALBUQUERQUE - (May 25, 2004) Connie Gotsch, of KSJE-FM in Farmington, and Crosswinds Weekly were the individual and institutional high-point winners in the 2004 New Mexico Press Women annual communications contest.
Others individual high-point winners were Beverly Merrick, second, and Bernadette Smyth, third, both of New Mexico State University. Other institutional winners were NMSU, second and the Santa Fe New Mexican, third.
This year's contest drew 156 entries from 64 people in categories that included reporting, editing, advertising, public relations and books.
Here are the winners in individual categories:
- News Reporting, non-daily: First and second, Stuart Overbey, Crosswinds Weekly; third, Kristen Davenport, Crosswinds Weekly.
- News reporting, daily: First, Julie Ann Grimm; second, Geoff Grammer; third, Deborah Davis, all of the Santa Fe New Mexican.
- News reporting for general or specialized publication: First, Janet Long Ford, ASRT Scanner; second, Chris Burroughs, Sandia Lab News; third, Phaedra Haywood, Pecos Valley Insert of the Santa Fe New Mexican.
- Continuing Coverage: First, Staci Mattlock, Santa Fe New Mexican; second, Amanda Noonan Heyman, Rio Grande Sun.
- Investigative Reporting: First, Amanda Noonan Heyman, Rio Grande Sun, second, Staci Mattlock, Santa Fe New Mexican.
- Special Series: First, Katie Buford, Albuquerque Journal; second, Deborah Davis, Santa Fe New Mexican; third, Lynn Cline, Pasa Tiempo.
- Editorial, non-daily: First, Wally Gordon, Edgewood Independent; second, Denise Tessier, Mountain View Journal.
- Special publications: First, Bernadette Smyth, NMSU Panorama.
- Features, non-daily: First, C. H Persson-Reeves; second, Pari Noskin-Taichert; third, Lisa Polisar, all of Crosswinds Weekly.
- Features, daily: First, Geoff Grammer, and second, Julie Ann Grimm, both of the Santa Fe New Mexican.
- Features, magazine: First, Lynn Cline, Pasa Tiempo; second, Emily Drabanski, New Mexico Magazine; third, Rachael Gallagher, NMSU Panorama.
- Personality profile: First, Sharon Kayne, Crosswinds Weekly; second, Sherry Robinson, Western Writers of America Roundup; third, Amanda Noonan Heyman, Rio Grande Sun.
- Special articles, arts: First, Lisa Polisar, Crosswinds Weekly; second, Connie Gotsch, Farmington Daily Times and Dayna Griego, The Ink; third, Beverly Merrick, Custer County Chief, and Cathy Robbins, Crosswinds Weekly.
- Special articles, health: second, Carole Tashel, Crosswinds Weekly. Education: First, Beverly Merrick, Custer County Chief; second, Steve Lawrence, Crosswinds Weekly; third, Kathryn Cordova, La Herencia. Science or environment: First, Christine Burroughs, Sandia Lab News; second, Amanda Noonan Heyman, Rio Grande Sun.
- Special articles, food: First, Elliot Essman, Crosswinds Weekly; third, Beverly Merrick, Custer County Chief. Government and politics: First, Sherry Robinson, Crosswinds Weekly; third, Kathryn Cordova, Saddle Baron/Taos Historical Society.
- Special articles, reviews: First, Michael Amundsen, Crosswinds Weekly; second, Julia Miller, Crosswinds Weekly; third, Pari Noskin Taichert, Albuquerque Tribune. Social issues: First, Kent Paterson, Crosswinds Weekly. Travel: First, Staci Matlock, Santa Fe New Mexican.
- Columns: Humorous: First, Sharon Kayne, Crosswinds Weekly. General column: First, Beverly Merrick, Custer County Chief; second, Wally Gordon, Edgewood Independent. Informational: First, Karl Kaplan, Crosswinds Weekly.
Specialized: First, Phaedra Haywood, Santa Fe New Mexican; second, J. Scott Key, Crosswinds Weekly, and Deborah Davis, Santa Fe New Mexican; third, Pari Noskin Taichert, Albuquerque Tribune.
- Page regularly edited by entrant,nondaily: First, Bill Gallagher, Crosswinds Weekly.Single page edited by entrant, nondaily lifestyle: second, Karl Kaplan, Crosswinds Weekly. Section, nondaily: second, Sherry Flanagan, Santa Rosa News; third, Karl Kaplan, Crosswinds Weekly.
- Editing, specialized publication: First and second, Carol Kreis, Newsweek Education Program; third, Diana Sandoval, New Mexico Bar Association. Publication regularly edited by entrant, nondaily: Second, Wally Gordon, Edgewood Independent; third, Barbara Belknap, Sandoval Sign Post.
- Editing, general or specialized magazines: First, Emily Drabanski, New Mexico Magazine; second D.D. Wolohan,American Society of Radiologic Technitions; third, Mary Conrad, UNM Alumni Magazine. Editing, daily: Second, Jennifer Swanson, Albuquerque Journal.
- Headlines: Second, Denise Tessier, Albuquerque Journal. Original Graphics: third, Britt Gallagher, Crosswinds Weekly.
- Editorial Cartoons: second, Marty Mentez, Edgewood Independent.
- Photography, nondaily news: second, Thelma Bowles, Edgewood Independent. Feature: third, Frank Martin, Edgewood Independent. Sports: third, Frank Martin.
- Radio report: Second and third, Connie Gotsch, KSJE-FM in Farmington; third, Angela Taylor, KSFR in Santa Fe. Special Program, Radio: First, Connie Gotsch; second, Ron Chapman, KUNM. Investigative/special report, radio: First, Kent Patterson, KUNM. Personal Column, radio: First, Ron Chapman. Interview, radio: Connie Gotsch.
- Writing for the Web, for-profit organization: First, Kathryn Cordova, Universal Axis.
- Campaign, instutitional image: First, Heather Feldman, Regent Fellowships, NMSU. Single-sheet poster: Second and third, Rachael Gallagher, NMSU.
- Advertising, magazine, one-to-four-color: Second, Bernadette Smith, NMSU Panorama.
Newsletter, one to three colors: First, Julie Hughes, Page One, NMSU; third, Janet Long Ford, Las Noticias. Four-color: First, Julie Hughes, Page One.
- Brochure: First, second and third, Bernadette Smith, NMSU.
- Public relations, single release: First, Julie Hughes, and second, Jeany Llornte, both of NMSU.
- Public relations, media kit: First, Sherry Robinson, West Wood Realty.
- Speeches: Second, Kimberley Batty-Herbert, Clovis Community College.
- Books, nonfiction: First, Emily Drabanski, Artists At Home; third, Linda Harris, Ghost Towns Alive.
- Short Story: First, Connie Gotsch, DLSIJ Press.
- Book of creative verse: Second, Beverly Merrick, Nebraskaland Commuter Press.
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