International weekly editors' group honors writers for editorials and Garrett Ray for service

The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors concluded its annual conference yesterday on Prince Edward Island after recognizing 12 weekly editors for their editorials and giving its highest award to a man whom one nominator dubbed the dean of the organization.

Garrett Ray, right, former editor and owner of the Littleton Independent in Colorado and retired faculty member at Colorado State University, won the Eugene Cervi Award for a career of outstanding public service through community journalism. His friend Richard McCord of Santa Fe, N.M., said in announcing the award that Ray has won journalism awards for "almost anything you can win an award for."

Ray's awards included the 1980 Golden Quill, which ISWNE gives to the editorial deemed the best of the Golden Dozen, 12 editorials that are recognized at the group's awards dinner and reprinted in its quarterly magazine, Grassroots Editor. For the latest edition of the magazine, with the award winners and their editorials, click here For a capsule rundown of the awards and the conference, click here.

Need to know COMJIG members' accomplishments

It's time to put together COMJIG's annual report for AEJMC, and we need your help.

Specifically, we need to know COMJIG members' accomplishments for the past year in community journalism-related research, teaching, PF&R, publications, etc.

Sorry to be a bother, but we need this by June 8 -- next Monday.

Please help out Liz Hansen and me. Send me (at dfisher@sc.edu) any notable things you've done. Have you worked with your class to help a local community media outlet -- or create one of your own? Have you found a new teaching technique? Have a new book, chapter or article with a community journalism component? Been working with an online community ...

We want to hear about it.

Again, please let me know ASAP, Just fill in the blanks below:

Name:

Institution or affiliation


Notable teaching 2008-09 (community J-related):


Notable research 2008-2009 (community J-related):


Articles, books, chapters, other publications related to community J:


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Other accomplishments we need to know about:




Again, please send to Doug Fisher dfisher@sc.edu

Thanks,
Doug