Council's Website Wins Guild Award

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The Metro Council has won another Front Page award, this time for Distinguished Website Design. The annual awards are given by the Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA Local 32035 to recognize the best work by its members during the previous calendar year. Other winners include Jamie Smith-Hopkins for his Baltimore Sun story last year investigating the impact of home mortgage defaults on city housing prices, and Washington Post photographer Mark Gail for his picture of a boxer carefully prepping for his next bout. At a March 31 awards ceremony, the union will also honor members and units for outstanding service in 2011 to their organizations or to the Guild; the Connie Knox Memorial Award is a brand-new award “for long and distinguished service to the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild” and will be given, posthumously, to Ms. Knox, who died last year just after her retirement as International Chair of The Newspaper Guild-CWA. Another Guild Service award, for outstanding customer service to the winner’s organization, has been renamed in honor of the late J. Darlene Meyer of the Post, the WBNG Vice President who died in January.  Meyer, the paper’s specialist in legal advertising and a veteran leader of WBNG’s unit at the paper, will also be honored posthumously with the award.