Alice Echo-News Journal earns 6 TPA awards

Takes 2nd place in General Excellence

Staff Report

Alice Echo-News Journal

The Alice Echo-News Journal earned six awards in the annualTexas Press Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest. Each member of theJournal news staff earned an award.

The newspaper received a second-place award in GeneralExcellence, which evaluates the content a newspaper from front to back. TheJournal had to supply copies of newspapers from random dates selected by TPA.

Judges comments included, “Papers do reflect the community.”

Christopher Maher and Ofelia Garcia Hunter received secondplace in news photography. Maher’s photo featured firemen leaving the scene ofa fire, while Hunter’s featured an arrest. Judges wrote, “Excellent news photo,well composed with emotion and weariness evident,” in reference to Maher’sphoto.

Nicole D. Perez and Pete Garcia earned a second-place awardfor page design.

The special edition “10-0” Coyote newspaper published anddistributed after the Coyotes went undefeated in district play last fall earneda fourth-place award in the Blue Moon contest, which is for out-of-the-ordinarysections produced by newspapers. The section was written and designed by PeteGarcia.

Perez, Garcia and publisher Tony Morris earned afourth-place award for headline writing. Judges wrote the headlines were cleverattention-getters.

Hunter and Mauricio Julian Cuellar Jr. earned a fourth-placenews writing award as well for coverage of last year’s bank robbery in Aliceand a story about an assault victim now residing in a nursing home seekingjustice.

The Journal competes in the daily division againstnewspapers with a circulation of 7,000 and under.