Arizona Press Club Contest Winners

2008 Arizona Press Club awards competition for the Best Journalism in Arizona

Greetings from the Arizona Press Club.

Here is what you’ve all been waiting for: the list of winners in the Arizona Press Club's 2008 Awards Competition for the Best Journalism in Arizona. No, we will not tell you in which category you placed, or in what order you placed — for now. We save that news for our banquet, to be held this year on Saturday, May 16 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in downtown Phoenix.

Deadline to register is May 7, by mail, or May 12, online with credit card. To buy tickets or for more info click here.

Important note: This list does not include the winners for B7. Personality profile reporting as we have not yet received the results in these two categories. We will notify the winners immediately upon hearing from our judges.

Second important note: If your name is spelled incorrectly on this list, please contact contest chairman Le Templar at ltemplar@evtrib.com. Otherwise it will be wrong on your certificate.

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners! We look forward to seeing you all on May 16!

The Arizona Press Club board of directors

Finalists for the top four categories are listed in alphabetical order.

Virg Hill Journalist of the Year

Ryan Gabrielson, East Valley Tribune

Chris Hawley, Arizona Republic

Rob O’Dell, Arizona Daily Star

Community Journalist of the Year

Hillary Davis, Arizona Daily Sun

Jonathon Shacat, Sierra Vista Herald

Marley Shebala, The Navajo Times

Photographer of the Year

James Gregg, Arizona Daily Star

Dean Knuth, Arizona Daily Star

David Wallace, Arizona Republic

Designer of the Year

Renee Fullerton, Arizona Daily Star

Joey Kirk, Arizona Republic

Luke Knox, Arizona Republic

Here are the other 2008 winners, also in alphabetical order:

Ahwatukee Foothills News

Brant Clinard

Arizona Capital Times

Bill Coates

Luige Del Puerto

Jeremy Duda

Jim Small

Arizona Daily Star

Carol Ann Alaimo

John Ames

Mariana Alvarado Avalos

Chiara Bautista

Tom Beal

Rhonda Bodfield

Josh Brodesky

Greg Bryan

Tony Davis

Patrick Finley

Ryan Finley

Renee Fullerton

Jack Gillum

James Gregg

Greg Hansen

Bonnie Henry

Alexis Huicochea

Stephanie Innes

Dean Knuth

Doug Kreutz

Aaron Mackey

Carla McClain

Brady McCombs

Joe McDermott

Irene McKisson

Lourdes Medrano

Ron Medvescek

Erica Meltzer

Rob O’Dell

Bruce Pascoe

Brian J. Pedersen
Kelly Presnell

Dale Quinn

Jeff Randall
Danny Ramirez

Michael Rice

Gabriela Rico

Andrea Rivera

Kori Rumore
George B. Sanchez

David Sanders

Shelley Shelton

Ron Solomon

Mark Stewart
Martin Rosales

Maria Camou de Toledo

Jill Torrance

Hugo Torres

Sarah Trotto

Phil Villarreal

Enric Volante
Jane See White

James Woods

Jamar Younger

Arizona Daily Sun

Josh Biggs

Betsey Bruner

Hillary Davis

Joe Ferguson

Larry Hendricks

Arizona Highways

Terry Greene Sterling

Arizona Jewish Post

Amy Hirshberg Lederman
Kaye Patchett

AZ Magazine

Jenny Poon

Arizona Republic

Chris Adams

Randy Camacho

Michael Chow

Sylvia Cody

Norm Frauenheim

Deirdre Hamill

Chris Hawley

Keri Hegre

Andrea Heser

Andrew Johnson

Kathleen Ingley

David Kadlubowski

Dan Nowicki

Nick Oza

Catherine Reagor

Jaimee Rose

Rob Schuamcher

Howard Seftel

Pat Shannahan

Russ Wiles

Casa Grande Dispatch

Alan Levine

Oscar Perez

East Valley Tribune

Ljiljana Ciric-Hoffman

Mark Flatten

Ralph Freso

Ryan Gabrielson

Paul Giblin

John Leptich

Jared Mellentine

Matt Paulson

Gabriel Utasi

Christina Vanoverbeke

Darryl Webb

The Explorer

Nick Smith

Flagstaff Live

Seth Muller

The Florence Reminder and Blade-Tribune

Mark Cowling

La Voz

Eduardo Bernal

Valeria Fernandez

Dinora Gonzalez

Angel Larreal

Samuel Murillo

Navajo Times

Jason Begay

Chee Brossy

Donovan Quintero

Marley Shebala

Jim Snyder

Cindy Yurth

Northern Arizona’s Mountain Living Magazine

Penelope Bass

Phoenix Business Journal

Chris Casacchia

Ilana Lowery

Jim Poulin

Phoenix Magazine

Jana Bommersbach

Phoenix New Times

John Dickerson

Sarah Fenske

Steve Jansen

Megan Irwin

Michele Laudig

Benjamin Leatherman

Stephen Lemons

Clay McNear

Robrt Pela

Paul Rubin

Amy Silverman
Ray Stern

Peter M. Storch

Kathleen Vanesian

Prensa Hispana

Javier Arce

Nora Patricia Mora

Jorge Ariel Palomares Buzani

The Scottsdale Times

Shanna Hogan

David Leibowitz

Jimmy Magahern

Sedona.biz

Cyndy Hardy

Sedona Monthly

Deb Weinkauff

Sierra Vista Herald

Dana Cole

Suzanne Cronn

Tri-Valley Dispatch

Ed Petruska

Tucson Citizen

Anne T. Denogean

Anthony Gimino

Steve Rivera

Jim Wyckoff

Tucson Weekly

Leo W. Banks

Tom Danehy

James DiGiovanna

Jim Nintzel

James Reel

Margaret Regan

West Valley View

Rebecca I. Allen

Owen Martin

Emily McCann
Ray Thomas

The Zonie Report

John Collins Rudolph

Contest rules

2008 Best of Writing & Reporting (please note clarification of rules for categories C25 and C26, made Jan. 18, 2009.)
2008 Best of Writing & Reporting -magazine
2008 Best of Design
2008 Best of Photojournalism

Have multiple entries? Download the entry forms only, here

2008 entry form only

Arizona Republic employees, click here for info on your contest entry fees

The contest rules are in .pdf, or Portable Document Format files, which requires Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader to view/print, if you don't have Reader on your computer- g et it here free.
If you have trouble downloading or viewing the .PDFs, e-mail the Webmaster

Any contest questions, e-mail Contest Chair Le Templar

Award winner lists prior to 1998 are not available online at this time.

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LAST UPDATE: 11/04/2010