Labor Photo: Council Website Wins Front Page Award

Friday, April 6, 2012

Labor Photo: Council Website Wins Front Page Award(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Metro Council Union City staffers Chris Garlock, Julia Kann and former staffer Adam Wright accepted the “Distinguished Website Design” award at the Newspaper Guild’s Front Page Awards on March 31. 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 included 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. The union also honored members and units for outstanding service in 2011 to their organizations or to the Guild, including the brand-new Connie Knox Memorial Award “for long and distinguished service to the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild” which was 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, was 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, was also honored posthumously with the award. James Crudup of the Washington Post was named the 2011 Organizer of the Year “for outstanding recruitment efforts in a unit,” and Dawan Jones of the National Association of Social Workers was awarded the Nadine Grinder Memorial Award for 2011 Steward of the Year. - photo (left to right) of Kann, Wright, WBNG President Sheila Lindsay, Garlock, and Front Page Committee Chairman Mark Gruenberg; photo by Lisa Garlock

 

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