Reporter and The Lutheran Witness, the Synod’s magazine, each won a first-place award and Reporter an “Honorable Mention” in this year’s Associated Church Press (ACP) competition for work done in 2003.
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Reporter’s first-place “Award of Excellence” was in the “Letters to the Editor” category, for the “Letters” section — edited by Rev. David L. Mahsman, executive editor of both periodicals.
Reporter also received a third-place Honorable Mention in the category of “Department,” for Dr. Bruce Hartung’s “Pressure Points” column.
In the “Biographical Profile” category, The Lutheran Witness picked up a first-place Award of Excellence for “Ministry to Migrants,” a feature story in last year’s June/July issue by Paula Schlueter Ross. Ross is contributing editor for the magazine and a staff writer for Reporter. Her story was about Connie Sikkema of Tampa, Fla., and her compassionate work among Florida’s Mexican migrant workers.
Posted April 30, 2004
