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JFP Wins Three AAN Awards, Including ‘Public Service’
The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University announced the winners of the 2008 AltWeekly Awards. The Jackson Free Press placed in three categories, and will learn the placement of the awards at the national convention in Philadephia, Pa., in June.
The JFP placed in the new Public Service category for our extensive investigation, photography and Web coverage of our 2005 investigation of the murders of Charles Moore and Henry Dee, and the subsequent prosecution and conviction of former Klansman James Ford Seale in 2007 stories and blog entries collected here. That award will go to Matt Saldaña, photographer Kate Medley and Donna Ladd.
A related story, "We Are Family: A Klan Child Fans a Different Flame," by Donna Ladd, is winning a feature-writing award, bringing her total AAN awards to 8.
Reporter Adam Lynch is bringing home his third AAN award for local news coverage for his long-form news piece "The State of the JPD." With the latest three awards, the Jackson Free Press has won 17 AAN awards in five years of competition.
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I've read many alternative weeklies from different cities, and none of them can hold a candle to the JFP. Most all of them are irrelevant or just plain trashy. Congratulations to you all.
posted by slugbug on 05/16/08 at 09:54 PM
Thank you, slugbug. The alt-weekly is a long, hallowed tradition, and we work hard to live up to the best of that tradition and always talk up to our readers. Mississippians are intelligent, with a few exceptions, and deserve to be treated as such. Cheers.
posted by ladd on 05/17/08 at 10:03 AM
You guys rock!
Donna, I actually ran across the issue with the Shirley story last week in a stash of JFPs at my house, and I immediately reread it.
It was really special to experience the growth and development of that story in class with you. Definitely a memorable experience.
posted by kp on 05/20/08 at 10:47 AM
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J.T.: Amen to pushing a positive Jackson. And, yes, it is a movement. And, it is moving.
Aug 27, 2008 | 06:17 PM
Ban the Paddle?
ladd: A lot of kids in all our schools are "scary smart." Many just haven't had the chance to prove it, yet. On the not-know-how-to-ask-a-str anger-a-question point -- how many strangers are completely ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 05:33 PM
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Tom Head: The kids I've met from the Jim Hill Civil Liberties Club are SCARY smart (they're not just the future; they're ready and able to get out and do stuff now), and the idea that anyone would consider ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 05:15 PM
Ban the Paddle?
ladd: you mentioned people should try to find out what is really going on with this generation. Damn right I did. And any given day, you will find up to 20 young people in their teens and 20s in my offices, ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 05:12 PM
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ladd: Baquan, it's simple really: You generalized about all young people with statements like these: Discipline does not work any more on kids, whether it is beating them or putting them in time out. Young ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 04:49 PM
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baquan2000: To Tom Head - lets just agree to disagree. You put yours in time out for stealing or cussing, while with mine, they will just have to meet their maker when they attempt to try it!? Sorry - I will ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 04:41 PM
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baquan2000: Donna you did a good article a while back on this generation, where I think you mentioned people should try to find out what is really going on with this generation. Maybe what I said, was to ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 04:28 PM
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Tom Head: Or for selling bad weed. Or for sleeping with your girlfriend. Or... Right. We teach the same pro-violence message with the Iraq War and the death penalty, too, not to mention when leaders go around ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 04:04 PM
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ladd: That is a vast generalization about young people, baquan, and extremely offensive. I'm more impressed with young people today in their teens, and even tweens, than I ever have been. And the numbers bear ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 03:39 PM
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baquan2000: after reading all the posts above; whatever it is we are doing; it is not working? Discipline does not work any more on kids, whether it is beating them or putting them in time out. Young men do ...
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