I found out today that I won another award for my column-writing.
This one is a third-place showing in the Commentary category for daily newspapers in the Spotlight Contest sponsored by the Keystone Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. (I'm pretty sure there were more than three entries).
Congratulations to first place winner Mitchel Olszak of the New Castle News and second place winner Marsha Keefer of the Beaver County Times.
The SPJ contest is open to all newspapers in Pennsylvania. (The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review won a ton of awards in this year's competition. Way to go, guys.)
The Mercury won a total of three awards. In addition to my award for columns, the newspaper received a third-place recognition in layout by Sunday Editor Chuck Pitchford and a third-place in the Enterprise Story for our coverage of last June's flooding. The paper won several other awards for the flooding coverage.
It's always nice to be recognized by peers. Earlier this year, I won first place in the Best Opinion Column category from Suburban Newspapers of America, which has 2,000 members.
I won a second place award last year from the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
And let's not forget being named one of the 10 leading Greek-American bloggers in the world by Odyssey magazine, which has 80,000 readers in 45 countries.
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