Note #9261 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:
06232 April 26, 2006
For 3rd year running, PNS named country's top religious news service
Presbyterians Today, Noticias also among winners in church-press competition
by John Filiatreau
ORLANDO, FL - For the third year in a row and the fourth time in five years, the Presbyterian News Service has been named the best religious news agency in North America in a competition sponsored by the Associated Church Press (ACP).
Other Presbyterian "Best in Class" winners for work done in 2005, announced on April 25 during the ACP's annual convention, were Presbyterians Today, which finished second among 15 denominational general-interest magazines, and Noticias, the newsletter of Santa Fe Presbytery, which finished second in the "one-person shop" category.
PNS bested all other denominational news services in the United States and Canada, as well as Religion News Service (RNS) and the Geneva-based Ecumenical News International (ENI). RNS placed second and ENI finished third, in a tie with the United Methodist News Service.
Presbyterians Today, edited by Eva Stimson, finished second to U.S. Catholic. Noticias, edited by the Rev. Ray Kersting, finished second to the newsletter of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
ACP is the oldest ecumenical press association in North America, dating to 1916. It includes more than 200 publications and electronic media. Jerry Van Marter of PNS is its current president.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) journalists won a number of other awards.
Alexa Smith of PNS won three awards: first place for a feature headlined "Smelter skelter," about the plight of children poisoned by air and water pollution in La Oroya, Peru; first place for a news story headlined "Waiting. Waiting. And Waiting," on Iraqi Christians displaced by war; and third place for in-depth coverage of the Middle East.
Presbyterians Today took first place in the Bible Resource category for Amy Planting Pauw's series of Bible studies.
Church & Society magazine, published in the National Ministries Division, won second place among magazines for its July-August theme issue on immigration.
HORIZONS, the magazine of Presbyterian Women, took second place in the humor-graphics category for Annette Cable's illustration of "Visitation Ministry" in the July/August issue.
The Presbyterian Outlook, an independent weekly published in Richmond, VA, took third place for in-depth coverage for a series of articles by Leslie Scanlon entitled "Many Journeys, Many People."
The ACP convention featured keynote presentations by renowned evangelical commentator Tony Campolo; Mark Pinsky, religion reporter and author of such books as The Gospel According to Disney and The Gospel According to the Simpsons; and Tony Arnold, media-relations director for Campus Crusade for Christ.
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