Even though none of the Metro Pulse staff got to attend the annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention in Tucson, Ariz., last weekend, the organization did recognize our work from the last year with four awards--two firsts, a second, and a third.
Editor Coury Turczyn's profile of eccentric 20th-century illustrator Jim Flora won first place for arts feature writing, Betty Bean's story about the openly gay former University of Tennessee linebacker Jackie Walker won first place for public-service reporting, and Charles Maldonado's essay on young adult fiction got third in the arts criticism category. Turczyn, A&E editor Matthew Everett, and art director Travis Gray won second place in the innovation/format buster category for a comic strip debate about superhroes and autobiographical comics.
All the awards came against similar papers across the country with circulation of 50,000 or less.
Full results can be seen here.
Editor Coury Turczyn's profile of eccentric 20th-century illustrator Jim Flora won first place for arts feature writing, Betty Bean's story about the openly gay former University of Tennessee linebacker Jackie Walker won first place for public-service reporting, and Charles Maldonado's essay on young adult fiction got third in the arts criticism category. Turczyn, A&E editor Matthew Everett, and art director Travis Gray won second place in the innovation/format buster category for a comic strip debate about superhroes and autobiographical comics.
All the awards came against similar papers across the country with circulation of 50,000 or less.
Full results can be seen here.
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