Phoenix New Times received forty awards, fourteen of those for first-place, while Tucson Weekly took home seven honors, six of those for first-place.
Writers for Miami New Times, Philadelphia City Paper, and Westword have been named as Sigma Delta Chi Award honorees by the national Society of Professional Journalists.
Among the finalists are Sarah Fenske for her work that appeared in Phoenix New Times, former Riverfront Times writer Kristen Hinman, and SF Weekly staff writer Peter Jamison.
Miami New Times' most famous columnist -- former 2 Live Crew frontman Luther Campbell -- is running for mayor of Miami-Dade County.
The Long Island Press brought home a total of 23 awards at the New York Press Association (NYPA)'s 2010 Better Newspaper Contest when winners were announced last weekend.
Stories from five AAN-member papers and one series that ran in several papers have been named finalists in this year's Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) journalism contest.
The Awl's Choire Sicha calls a story in New Times Broward-Palm Beach "annoying."
The story cast doubts on Arizona sheriff's deputy Louie Puroll's claim that he was shot by drug smugglers.
The two alt-weeklies are taking their donated items to South Beach.
Susan Cohen of Charleston City Paper and Harry Siegel of the New York Press are named "the worst of the worst."
