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Crain's Detroit Business wins Excellence in Media Awards
April 2010 —Staffers from Crain’s Detroit Business won 10 Excellence in Media Awards, presented April 14 by the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for work published in 2009.
- First place: investigative reporting, “Fund’s Failure a Family
Affair” – Daniel Duggan, Gabe Nelson - First place: headline writing, “News Grief” – Gary Piatek, Jeff
Johnston - First place: feature place design, “Grow Me the Money” – Jeff
Johnston - First place: editorial page design, “Campaign for Mayor” – Gary
Piatek - Second place: general reporting, “Cruising into Conflict” – Chad
Halcom - Second place: news photo – Nathan Skid
- Second place: feature photo – Nathan Skid
- Third place: feature reporting, “30 Years on the Laugh Track” –
Julie Yolles - Third place: multimedia feature category, www.crainsdetroit.com,
“The D’s Next Decade” – Alan Baker, Ai-Ting Huang, Nathan Skid - Honorable mention: general reporting, “Did Politics Kill the Kroc
Center” – Sherri Welch
The Detroit Society of Professional Journalists chapter presents Excellence in Media Awards annually for outstanding news reporting and analysis in local publications, broadcast and new electronic media. This year’s contest received more than 400 entries. Chapters in Illinois, Minnesota and Florida selected the winners.