CityBeat has been named Best Weekly in Ohio in the recently announced Ohio Society of Professional Journalists’ 2005 press awards, one of a number of journalism and design honors the paper has garnered.
Competing in SPJ’s “under 100,000 circulation” division, CityBeat won a Best of Show award as Best Weekly and Kathy Y. Wilson tied in her Best of Show category as Best Columnist. CityBeat previously was honored as Best Weekly in 2001 and 1997, so we’ll go ahead and reserve a spot in the trophy case for 2009.
The paper’s Web site, citybeat.com, won third place in the same awards program.
In the national Association of Alternative Newsweeklies awards, presented recently at the organization’s annual conference in San Diego, CityBeat‘s Sean Hughes (art director) and Ryan Gries (freelance illustrator) won second place for Cover Illustration for the Ronald McDonald look-alike who accompanied the story “What’s Eating Us?” (pictured). It’s Greis’ fourth AAN award for his CityBeat work.
CityBeat, unfortunately, was shut out in the Investigative Reporting category after Leslie Blade’s work won three consecutive AAN awards, including first place the past two years.
John Backderf, known far and wide as Derf, picked up first place in Cartoon (More Than Five Publications) at the AAN conference. CityBeat runs the Cleveland resident’s cartoon “The City” (see this week’s offering on page 61).
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This article appears in Jun 29 – Jul 5, 2005.
