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11-April-2002
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Presbyterian journalists win ACP awards

PNS is named "Best in Class," lauded for Middle East coverage

LOUISVILLE - Presbyterian publications took home 21 awards when the Associated Church Press presented honors for religious journalism during its 2002 annual convention this week in Birmingham, AL.

The Presbyterian News Service (PNS) won six awards and was cited as "Best in Class" among religious news services in the United States.

Horizons magazine, the official publication of Presbyterian Women, won seven awards, while Church & Society won four and The Presbyterian Outlook took four.

Presbyterians Today, the denomination's general-interest magazine, won a second-place award for a feature story written by John Filiatreau, the magazine's assistant editor, about a church in Florida where a face, believed by some to be that of Jesus, appeared mysteriously on an exterior sanctuary wall.

The newspaper from Upper Ohio Valley Presbytery in Wheeling, WV, The Connector, took second-place honors for an editorial, "A Measured Response to Immeasurable Hatred," on the Sept. 11 attacks.

PNS also received two first-place awards, one for a first-person account of the Sept. 11 attacks by freelancer Libba Bray, the other for in-depth Middle East coverage by Alexa Smith, who won in the same category last year. The news service's coverage of the General Assembly took second-place honors.

Horizons won a first-place award for magazine graphics for "Finding the Good in Hollywood," an article by Edward McNulty in its September/October issue, and second-place honors for "Esther's Feast," the magazine's annual Bible study.

"Extra! Extra! Professionals Reveal Secrets to Successful Communication," by Nancy Crowe, won a second-place award for the "Most Personally Useful Article." Charlotte Johnstone's "Dispatch from Forebearance Presbyterian Church," a regular department in the magazine, also took second-place honors.

The Presbyterian Outlook won an "Award of Excellence" for magazine coverage of the General Assembly, and reporter Leslie Scanlon received an first-place award for a feature article on Sabbath-keeping.

The Outlook also won a first-place award for a regular column by David Steele, who died earlier this year. Ken Bailey's Biblical interpretation, "Capitalism and the Parable of the Talents," won a second-place award.

A theme issue on homelessness received first-place honors for Church & Society, and the magazine also was honored for an issue on "The Ethics of Life and Death," judged the best expression of a publication's mission statement.

Sojourners magazine - published by a justice-minded evangelical community in Washington, D.C. - won top honors at the annual ceremony, winning 12 awards; Episcopal Life was runner-up with 11.  Both publications were named "Best in Class." U.S. Catholic was honored as the best general-interest magazine.

Associated Church Press is an 86-year-old professional association with 175 member publications with a combined circulation of more than 28 million. Awards were presented in 43 categories.
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