City Weekly journalists earned top honors at the Society of Professional Journalists Utah Headliners competition held June 18.
Last night's winners included:
Best Newspaper Reporter
1st Place
Stephen Dark
Stephen Dark earned the coveted Best Newspaper Reporter award for Division A papers (where he competed with reporters from The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News). Dark also earned the award in 2009.
Personality Profile
1st Place
Eric Peterson
for "Blood Brothers"
Criminal Justice Reporting
2nd Place
Colby Frazier
for "
Invisible Man"
Religion/Values Reporting
2nd Place
Kolbie Stonehocker, Stephen Dark
for "Death Becomes Her"
Opinion Column
2nd Place
Eric Peterson
for "Get in the Game"
Best Single Blog Post
Personality Profile
3rd Place
Carolyn Campbell
for "Multiplicity
Congratulations to all the winners (at City Weekly as well as other media outlets). Journalism is not an easy profession, but it's vital to a free society. These are the folks who keep the flame alive, and we thank them.