The Montgomery Advertiser won 49 awards in the annual Alabama Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, honoring both editorial and advertising content, including the Story of the Year award for enterprise reporter Melissa Brown's piece on Alabama's prison system.
Nearly 3,000 entries were submitted from 98 newspapers across the state, covering work produced during 2019. The Mississippi Press Association membership judged the entries.
The editorial team took 22 awards, with the Advertiser placing first in local education coverage, best in-depth news, best feature story, best news feature story, best sports feature, best spot news photo, best headline and best public service.
Brown interviewed more than two dozen incarcerated men about their experiences in the Alabama Department of Corrections for her piece, 'American Horror Story'.
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"The consistency of experiences — from prison to prison, from lifers to the newly incarcerated, from young and old, from black and white — paint a chilling portrait of corruption, violence and the disintegration of state institutions purported to correct and rehabilitate," Brown wrote in the story.
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Aside from the Story of the Year award, Brown won best news feature story and the best public service award for the piece.
Other journalism awards include:
- First place, in-depth news coverage and third place in public service for Brian Lyman's “'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, 9 slave testimonies”
- Second place, in-depth news coverage for Melissa Brown's “Alabama prisoners are being served poison in place of punishment”
- First place, sports feature story for Andre Toran's “A collage manifested: Tennessee commit James Robinson paints the picture people don't see”
- First place, feature story for Krista Johnson's “Ti'erra Lee's testimony: How the Lee graduating senior turned pain into purpose”
- Second place, feature story for Brad Harper's “Montgomery's teen-run That's My Dog Jr. opens”
- Second place, news feature story for Brian Lyman's “'State of Alabama:' The racist anti-Selma film, and the secret state commission that funded it”
- Second place, news photo for Jake Crandall's “Congressional delegation visits EJI National Memorial”
- Third place, news photo for Jake Crandall's “Hindu temple opens in Montgomery”
- First place, spot news photo for Jake Crandall's “Shooting at Lee High School”
- Second place, spot news photo for Jake Crandall's “'We're blessed': Titus relatives describe moment storm hit their homes”
- Second place, photo essay for Mickey Welsh's “Rowdy Burton moves through life like everyone else”
- Second place, sports news in-depth coverage for Josh Vitale's “Auburn’s Iron Bowl victory is a testament to a team that never quit believing in itself"
- Third place, humorous column for Marty Roney's “When disaster hits, here come the country boys”
- First place, headline for Byron Robinson's “Destiny Denied”
- Second place in General Excellence
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Krista Johnson at kjohnson3@gannett.com.
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