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Champion racks up multiple awards

The Champion Newspaper staff won multiple awards last week at the Georgia Press Association’s (GPA) banquet for the Better Newspaper Contest 2009 held June 5 at the Jekyll Island Club during the 123rd Georgia Press Association Annual Convention.
In its division, The Champion took home 11 first-place awards, five second-place awards and two third-place awards. The paper also received the General Excellence Award in its division.

First place was awarded to The Champion for the following

• General Excellence
• Lifestyle Coverage
• Best Web Gallery, Travis Hudgons and Brian Egeston
• Best Web Photo, Brian Egeston
• Photo Essay, Travis Hudgons
• News Photo, Andy Phelan
• Sports Feature Photo, Brian Egeston
• Sports Writing, Brian Egeston
• Feature Writing, Travis Hudgons
• Investigative Reporting, Andy Phelan
• Special Issues, Five Years at War, Gale Horton Gay, Andy Phelan and Kemesha Hunt

Other awards:

• Photo Illustration, Kemesha Hunt, second place
• Business Coverage, Brian Egeston, second place
• Spot News Photo, Travis Hudgons, second place
• Serious Column, Kathy Mitchell, second place
• Feature Writing, Gale Horton Gay, third place
• Photo Essay, Gale Horton Gay, second & third place

In May, GPA’s Advertising Conference and Awards banquet was held at Brasstown Valley Resort in Young Harris and The Champion received nine first-place and two second-place awards. The first-place advertising awards winners are:

• Full color ad, Travis Hudgons
• Special Section, Travis Hudgons
• Health Care, John Hewitt
• Miscellaneous, John Hewitt
• Apparel, Jewelry, John Hewitt and Kemesha Hunt
• Home Furnishings, John Hewitt
• Newspaper Promotion, Travis Hudgons
• Classified Section,Kemesha Hunt
• Newspaper Promo out of print,Andy Phelan and Brian Egeston
• Real Estate, Louise Acker
  
  Second-place advertising awards also were bestowed on The Champion for two other newspaper promotions.