Alumni, The News win KPA newspaper awards

Staff members of The Murray State News won nine awards in the 2008 Kentucky Press Association Newspaper Contest. Winners were announced at the annual KPA meeting in Louisville Jan 22-23.

The winners in the college and universities division were

Casey Northcutt‹first place, best general news story; first place, best special section.

Alaina Zanin‹third place, best column.

Rick Burress‹first place, best sports picture; second place, best picture essay.

Jess Nall, Clayton Vertrees‹honorable mention, best agribusiness story.

Misty Hays‹honorable mention, best spot news picture.

Allison Mugler, Steve Miller, Aaron Weare‹second place, best sports section.

Emily Wuchner, Charlotte Kyle, Whitney Harrod‹merit certificate, best business page

JMC alumni won 34 awards as follows: Weekly Class 1:

Jacqueline Jordan, McLean County News‹second and third place, best feature story; second place, on-going story; honorable mention, best feature picture; first place, best picture essay; second place, best sports picture essay; second place, best sports section; second place, best business page; second place, best editorial page.

Amie Powers, McLean County News‹first place, best sports story; third place, best business story; second place, best news picture. Weekly Class 3:

Stevie Daugherty, Lebanon Enterprise‹second place, best enterprise story; third place, best general news picture; first place, best feature picture; second place, best graphic; first place, best editorial page. Multi-Weekly:

Jared Nelson, Princeton Times Leader‹first place, best spot news coverage. Daily Class 1:

Jennifer Brown, Kentucky New Era‹first place, best feature story; third place, best picture essay.

Tommy Dillard, Murray Ledger & Times‹first place and honorable mention, best sports story; honorable mention, best sports feature story.

Eric Walker, Murray Ledger & Times‹third place, best headline. Daily Class 2:

Kevin Patton, Henderson Gleaner‹second place, best sports feature story Daily Class 3:

Keith Lawrence, Owensboro Messenger Inquirer‹third place, best column.

Shelley Byrne, Paducah Sun‹third place and honorable mention, best spot news coverage.

C.D. Bradley, Paducah Sun‹honorable mention, best news story.

Matt Sanders, Paducah Sun‹second place, best business story.

John Wright, Paducah Sun‹first place, best news picture; honorable mention, best picture essay. Associate Newspapers:

Michele Carlton, Ft. Campbell Courier‹first place, special sections.

Daugherty, Brown and Stan McKinney, journalism professor at Campbellsville University, were program presenters at the convention. McKinney got his bachelor's and master's in journalism at Murray State.

Representing the JMC Department were Dr. Bob Lochte, Dr. Bob McGaughey, Joe Hedges and members of The Murray State News staff.