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PC(USA) journalists score 20 awards 
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April 30, 2003

PC(USA) journalists score 20 awards 

PNS' Van Marter elected vice-president of Associated Church Press

by John Filiatreau

INDIANAPOLIS -Presbyterian Church (USA) journalists received 20 Associated
Church Press (ACP) awards for 2002 during the 97-year-old organization's
annual awards banquet here on April 29. 
	
Earlier that day, the Rev. Jerry Van Marter, coordinator of news services for
the PC(USA), was elected vice-president of the ACP, which has nearly 250
member publications in the United States and Canada. He will serve a two-year
term. 
	
The Presbyterian News Service led the way with six awards: first place in the
News Story category for Alexa Smith's Dec. 13, 2002, article, "Keeping the
Faith in Bethlehem"; two second-place awards, one in the Feature Article
category for Jerry Van Marter's April 19 story written from Cuba, "Felina's
Home," the other for Convention Coverage by a Newspaper for last year's
General Assembly News, edited by Jane Mead; and three third-place awards - in
the In-Depth Coverage category for Smith's reporting from the Middle East
last fall of 2002, in the Convention Coverage by a News Service category, and
in the Best of Class category for overall excellence (behind the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America News Service and Religion News Service).
	
Presbyterians Today, the denomination's general-interest magazine, captured
five ACP awards. HORIZONS, the magazine of Presbyterian Women, won three, as
did the independent Presbyterian Outlook; two awards were picked up by Church
& Society, the PC(USA)'s social-justice journal; and Noticias, the newsletter
of Santa Fe Presbytery, won an "Acorn" award as one of the best "shoestring"
publications in North America. 
	
Presbyterians Today won first prize in the category of Most Personally Useful
Article for Evan Silverstein's story, "Learning with a Touch of Faith" on how
to choose a Presbyterian-related college (September 2002); two second-place
awards, in the Devotional or Inspirational category for "Beneath the Celtic
Cross of Jesus," by Brad Kent (January/February 2002), and in the Circulation
Campaign category for subscription appeals created by Sharon Kutz-Mellem; and
two third-place finishes -in the Interview category for Eva Stimson's June
2002 interview with author Anne Lamott, for Convention Coverage by a Magazine
for "Reports on the 214th General Assembly" (June and July/August 2002). 
	
The awards to HORIZONS' were for first place in the Magazine Theme Issue
catergory for "Finding Meaning and Attaining Balance," in the
September/October 2002 issue; second place in the Ancillary Product category
for Robin Craxton's puzzle game, "No Longer Strangers," in the March 2002
issue; and third place in the Magazine Design category for the
September/October 2002 issue. 
	
Presbyterian Outlook, based in Richmond, VA, won first place in Convention
Coverage by a Magazine for its reporting on the 214th General Assembly;
second place in the Bible Study category for "Study Helps for the Present
Word," by W. Eugene March in the fall of 2002; and third place in the
Magazine Column competition for "Opinion" by Martin Pike in June and July of
2002. 
	
Church & Society won a second-place award in the Theological Reflection
category for "The Gospel According to Mathew Shepard: Reconciliation from the
Perspective of the Unreconciled," by Paul Capetz in the May/June 2002 issue;
and a third-place award in the Magazine Theme Issue category for its
March/April issue, "Encircling Care: A New Vision for Congregational
Caregiving," edited by Bobbi Wells Hargleroad and Patricia K. Gleitch. 
	
The Rev. Ray Kersting accepted a third-place plaque for Santa Fe Presbytery's
Noticias in the inaugural "Acorn Award" competition for publications that
operate on "shoestring" budgets. 
	
More than 1,000 entries were submitted. The judges were working journalists
and university journalism professors from around the country.

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