Thursday, August 6, 2009

Education Coverage Award


For awards in 2007, the Seattle P-I received 34 of them from the regional Society of Professional Journalists.

Staffers at the newspaper received 14 first place awards. The grand prize for education coverage went to Jessica Blanchard and Casey McNerthney. Their story was about the under-reporting of crime in Seattle schools called “School crimes under wraps.”

The Seattle Times received 53 awards.

Source: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/365369_spj31.html