[Vision2020] celebrate the DN

[Bill London]

We are actually blessed with a remarkable combination here -- a small town with a quality newspaper.  Check out other little papers anywhere around here.  The DN is not the NY Times, but it's a good community paper, locally-owned and published by a guy who does care.
I complain about the DN and harass the publisher as much as anyone, but I do recognize it's a paper dedicated to this community and to doing a good job.
so, congrats to the DN staff on the big award.....
BL

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Daily News earns award for excellence 

Associated Press 
Published: 06-10-2006 

EAGLE, Idaho - The staff of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News was recognized Friday for general excellence in the Utah-Idaho-Spokane Associated Press Association's annual news contest. 

The 2006 awards were presented at the association's annual meeting. The Daily News competed against daily newspapers in eastern Washington, Idaho and Utah with circulations less than 10,000. 


Daily News staff took home 12 awards in all, including six first-place awards in addition to the general excellence honor, which is the highest a newspaper can achieve in the contest. 


The Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City and The Spectrum in St. George, Utah, also were recognized for general excellence. The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, and the Post Register in Idaho Falls each won the William H. Cowles Memorial Award for public service reporting. 


The Spokesman-Review received the award for its online investigation of the city's mayor, Jim West, who was recalled by voters after a series of articles detailing how the mayor had solicited dates from young gay men in Internet chat rooms. The Post Register received the award for its series about a child molester who was hired as a Boy Scout camp program director and the newspaper's court fight to obtain public documents in the case. 


Papers compete in three size divisions: for papers more than 50,000 circulation; for papers of 10,000 to 50,000; and for the first time this year, the category for papers under 10,000 circulation. 


Here is a complete list of Divison I news and sports writing winners in the 2006 contest: 




Division I 


(Circulation 10,000 and less) 


Spot News Story 


1st place - Keith Kinnaird of the Bonner County Daily Bee, "Man in critical condition after boulder crushes excavator" 


General Reporting 


1st - E. Kirsten Peters of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, "Race, free speech issues likely to linger" 


2nd - R.J. Cohn of the Bonner County Daily Bee, "Sandpoint pole yard threat" 


3rd - Christine Scott of the Standard Journal, "Paws against drugs" 


Beat Reporting 


1st - R.J. Cohn of the Bonner County Daily Bee 


2nd - E. Kirsten Peters of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News 


Feature Story 


1st - Alexis Bacharach of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, "Back from Iraq" 


2nd - E. Kirsten Peters of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, "The name-keepers" 


3rd - Alexis Bacharach of Moscow-Pullman Daily News, "Breaking ground no big deal" 


Personal Columns 


1st - Steve McClure of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News 


Editorial 


1st - Steve McClure of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News 


Sports Features 


1st - Tom Fox of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, "Second shot" 


2nd - Doug Bauer of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, "Smith has his hands full" 


3rd - Aaron Wasser of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, "The intangibles" 


Series or Special Projects 


1st - Tom Fox of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, "Raising the bar" 


2nd - Staff of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, "Below the surface" 


General Excellence 


1st - Staff of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News 
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