Congratulations to SPJ DC Pro Chapter Acting President Denise Dunbar, publisher and executive editor of the Alexandria Times, and her team for garnering 11 Virginia Press Association awards on May 7 at the annual VPA banquet in Short Pump, Virginia. Among the Times awards were five first-place finishes.
In the group of non-dailies, Dunbar finished in first place in Editorial Writing.
Jessica Kim finished in first place in the Education, Churches and Organizations category; placed first in the Fashion and Personal Care, and Home and Garden categories; and took second place in the Food and Drug category. She also placed third in the Digital Advertising category.
There were third place honors for Olivia Anderson, Cody Mello-Klein and Kassidy McDonald in the Front Page, and Special Sections or Special Editions categories. Mello-Klein and Dunbar were in first place in the Specialty Pages or Sections category.
Anderson was in competition under a stand-alone byline and finished second in Feature Story Writing (excluding Obituaries) and third in In-depth or Investigative Reporting.
