The South Florida SPJ recognized the deserving winners of its 2008 Sunshine State Awards at a banquet tonight at the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel in Dania, Florida. A detailed report of the event will be posted here tomorrow. In the meantime, you can review the list of winners by clicking the links below.
2008 Sunshine State Awards Winners Announced May 31, 2008. Includes judges’ comments. (To download a PDF version of this list, click here.) Skip to: BATTEN AWARD NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE REPORTING NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE COPY EDITING, PHOTOGRAPHY, & GRAPHICS BROADCAST INTERNET STUDENTS ALL MEDIA James Batten Award for Public Service First Place: The South Florida Sun-Sentinel; [...]
Judges across the nation have concluded their judging of the 958 entries received in this year’s Sunshine State Awards competition. The South Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists released the complete list of finalists yesterday. The chapter will announce the winners on Saturday, May 31 at the 2008 Sunshine State Awards ceremony.
The winners of this year’s Sunshine State Awards will be announced on Saturday, May 31st at the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel.
FORT LAUDERDALE — Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru Wada, the San Francisco Chronicle investigative team that exposed the explosive BALCO steroid scandal, are slated to speak at the 14th annual Sunshine State Awards banquet sponsored by the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Westin Hotel, Fort Lauderdale Board members present: Darcie Lunsford, Bill Hirschman, John Hopkins, Sylvia Gurinsky, Merwin Sigale, Beth Feinstein-Bartl Committee chairs and representatives present: Tim Dodson (Sunshine State Awards), Michael Koretzky (student affairs) Guests: Tim Collie (Sun-Sentinel) Darcie called the meeting to order at 7:26 p.m. SUNSHINE STATE AWARDS UPDATE • Tim provided a timeline [...]
The meeting was called to order by President Darcie Lunsford at 7:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel in Broward County. Board Members present: Sam Terilli, Sylva Gurinsky, Darcie Lunsford, Ron Levitt, Bill Hirschman, Beth Feinstein, Sergy Tabuteau, Jaime George, Julie Kay and Student Affairs committee chair Michael Koretzky. President Lunsaford announced that [...]
If you missed this year’s Sunshine State Awards dinner, you missed a good party and an important presentation by Phil Meyer, the research guru who teaches that good journalism is good business. Meyer’s presentation on May 19th was somewhat more hopeful than his book, The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism n the Information Age. Meyer urged [...]



