Herald Wins Awards In State’s Newspaper Contest
Herald reporter Jack Gurner won Best Spot News Photograph for a picture titled “Face to Fang” of a snake being pulled from beneath an automobile.
Editor David Howell and Reporter Jack Gurner placed third in Pictorial Series for their photographs of last year’s Watermelon Carnival.
Contributing photographer Judy Robbins won a third place in the Best Sports Action Photograph category for a picture taken during a WVHS baseball game of the Devil’s first baseman picking off a runner.
Reporter Jack Gurner won a third place award in the Feature Photograph category for a photo of a Coffeeville teen hitching a ride on the back of a pickup truck with no bed.
The Herald staff received an honorable mention for the Watermelon Carnival special section published before the annual event.
The North Mississippi Herald won six awards, including a first place, in the annual Mississippi Press Association Better Newspaper Contest.
The awards, which are for work published during 2009, were presented Saturday at the Mississippi Press Association’s Tri-State convention with Tennessee and Arkansas.
Herald reporter Jack Gurner won Best Spot News Photograph for a picture titled “Face to Fang” of a snake being pulled from beneath an automobile. (original story click here)
Gurner also won a third place award in the Feature Photograph category for a photo of a Coffeeville teen hitching a ride on the back of a pickup truck with no bed.
Editor David Howell and Gurner placed third in Pictorial Series for their photographs of last year’s Watermelon Carnival. The Herald staff also received an honorable mention for the Watermelon Carnival special section published before the annual event.
In the Best General News Story category, Gurner placed third for a story about a ground hog that bedeviled a local farmer. (original story click here)
Contributing photographer Judy Robbins won a third place in the Best Sports Action Photograph category for a picture taken during a WVHS baseball game of the Devil’s first baseman picking off a runner. (click here for photo)
