Sweepstakes winner: Isabel Hope Donna Francavilla: 1st - Radio and Television Advertising, Radio Sawyer Solutions Radio Commercials Olivia McMurrey: 1st - Community, Institutional, or Internal Relations Impact America end-of-year Fundraising 1st - Brochures, Non-profit, Government or Educational FocusFirst Brochure 1st - Website Edited or Managed By Entrant: Nonprofit, Government or Educational FocusFirst Webpage for Daycare Center Director 1st - Specialty Articles, Business

National awards: Graphics 3rd: Savannah Bullard, WVUA 23 News, Wings Over Courtland Page Design - Newspaper 2nd: Savannah Bullard , The Crimson White, Dance Alabama Culture Spread Specialty Articles - Green/Environmental HM: Solomon Crenshaw, Jr., SCJr Content Providers, Toxic: Life in the shadows of major pollution sources Specialty Articles - Personal essay 1st: Meredith Cummings, SPJ Quill magazine, What I learned in my great American newsroom trip Specialt

Seven Alabamians brought home awards for their professional performance in the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest. Three of our members placed first: Olivia McMurrey in promotional materials for a magapaper ("The Retreat at Mountain Brook"), Tina Tidmore for managing the AMP website, and Verna Gates for writing a travel article ("Race to Kentucky; Revolutionary Ties"). The work was done in 2017, and all 7 of these national winners also won 1st place in

Our annual communications contest is a great opportunity to be acknowledged for good work and to get feedback on how to improve. And the 2018 results show the continued benefits and popularity of this annual contest. We had entries in 29 categories. We need to give a thanks to the 16 judges and our contest director, Meredith Cummings, who volunteered their time for this important AMP benefit. Donna Francavilla (pictured) was our sweepstakes winner, meaning she had the highest

Six Alabamians brought home awards for their professional performance in the September National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest. Two standouts were Olivia Grider, who won $150 for placing 2nd in the Sweepstakes (collection of all contest awards); and Elaine Hobson Miller, who was runner up in the Communicator of Achievement category. This national contest brings attention to the high level of expertise Alabama Media Professionals members have. AMP's meetings

Our annual communications contest is a great opportunity to be acknowledged for good work and to get feedback on how to improve. This year, we had 8 winners: Solomon Crenshaw, Jr. 1st Place in Writing a Personality Profile that is more than 500 words 1st Place in Writing a Specialty Article about sports 2nd Place in Writing a Feature Story in a print-based newspaper Meredith Cummings 1st Place in Writing an Editorial/Opinion article in a print-based newspaper 1st Place in Wri