‘Weekly’ Rocks Competition With Generally Excellent Awards Hauls
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The Weekly cleaned up in two separate awards competitions for work done in 2010.
The advertising and design staffs dominated the Non-Daily Circulation Greater Than 10,000 category in the Arizona Newspaper Association’s Excellence in Advertising competition, winning the general excellence award and eight other honors. Two of those awards were first-place finishes, and designer Greg Willhite himself won six awards.
The editorial side had a big awards haul in the Arizona Press Club’s annual contest, winning seven awards—including a whopping six first-place finishes.
All six of the writing awards—five of those first-place wins—came in Metro or Best in Arizona categories, meaning the Weekly was competing with all of the state’s largest newspapers, including The Arizona Republic, the Arizona Daily Star and Phoenix New Times.
While the Weekly took five big-newspaper writing wins, the Arizona Daily Star, Tucson’s main daily newspaper, earned only one first-place writing award, and three overall.