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

The 2019 AMP Communications Contest and the National Federation of Press Women Professional Contest are now open for submissions. This year's contest has several new categories, including Novella, Personal Essay, and E-letters, along with an updated entry system to make submitting your entry easier. The AMP Communications Contest is for communications/media professionals in Alabama, with winners eligible to compete in the National Federation of Press Women national contest (i

PRESS RELEASE: Released January 31, 2018 (updated on June 12) Awards, skills, and work experience information of Alabama communications freelancers is at the new Find a Freelancer Program launched by Alabama Media Professionals In a June 2018 Forbes article, Jon Younger notes that a report from Kleiner Perkins, a public equity firm, shows that " . . . the freelance workforce is large and growing. In fact, it is growing at 3X the rate of the total workforce." Besides the attr

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

Herb Patterson's profile on the Alabama Media Professionals' website says he's retired and an artist. But the skill that made an Alabama construction company hire him is writing, particularly Herb's experience in technical writing--or at least, not travel writing. Herb has his professional profile on AMP's new Find a Freelancer section of the association's website and is helping the FAF team to spread the word about this resource. The company did an online search for "freelan