Awards roundup: awards for Birmingham media folks …
• WBHM (90.3 FM) picked up three first place awards in the 2009 Public Radio News Directors Incorporated Awards.
- Commentary: “Crossing the divide” by Marie Sutton
- Interview: “Larry Langford” by Tanya Ott
- Series: “Considering Faith”
Links to stories
[The full list of PRNDI awards.]
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• Birmingham Weekly’s Kyle Whitmire picked up his second consecutive first-place award in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ Alternative Newsweekly Awards, his fourth overall.
- Gettin’ Gay with Leapin’ Larry, Alabama Exceptionalism and Leapin’ Larry Fights the Feds
[Original post | full list of AltWeekly Awards]
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• In the Society of Professional Journalists’ 59th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards, Alabama media outlets took home five first-place awards, and WBHM (90.3 FM) took home its second consecutive divisional win in radio. [The directors of the Green Eyeshade Awards canceled this year’s banquet because “the news media’s economic problems made it difficult to guarantee attendance.”]
Divisional Winner
- Radio – WBHM (90.3 FM) of Birmingham, for “Considering Faith,” by its news team.
Links to stories
1st Place
- “Collection of Editorials” Mac Thrower, Mobile Press-Register
- “Lauren,” Laurel Mills, Lipstick Magazine, Birmingham
- “This one time at camp …,” Laurel Mills, Lipstick Magazine, Birmingham
- “Skimboarding” Bronwyn Coffeen, Mobile Press-Register
- “Considering Faith,” News Team, WBHM (90.3 FM) [Links to stories]
2nd Place
- “Rumble, Rumble, Rumble” Challen Stephens, The Huntsville (Ala.) Times
- “Sky-High” George Talbot, Jeff Amy, Dan Murtaugh, Press-Register, Mobile
- “Series of Columns” Tim Sanders, The Post, Centre
- “Theology of the Dispossessed” Mark Potok, Intelligence Report
- “Beer Law, Wilcox Gas, Fight Song” Tanya Ott, WBHM-FM
3rd Place
- “Big Bad Wolf Hunt” Brendan Kirby, Press-Register (Mobile)
- “Desperate Search” News Staff, Press-Register, Mobile
- “Outside Agitators” David Holthouse, Intelligence Report, Montgomery
- “Spaceships and Playoff Systems” Scott Wright, The Post, Centre
- “Capital Murder Trial Coverage” Scott Wright, The Post, Centre
- “J.D. Crowe Editorial Cartoons” J.D. Crowe, Mobile Press-Register
[hat tip to The Terminal]
Congratulations to MOBster Kyle Whitmire, who won first place in Political Column (under 55,000 circ.) Saturday at the 2008 AltWeekly Awards for his 
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