The Anna Maria Island Sun has earned 17 awards in the Florida Press Club’s 66th Excellence in Journalism Competition, including five first place trophies for opinion writing, breaking news photography, feature photography, sports photography and cartooning.
The awards, presented at Hotel Indigo in Sarasota on Saturday, Nov. 4 are:
Opinion Writing
Mike Field, 1st place, The ‘Big M’
Mike Field, 3rd place, The mayors have it right
Breaking News Photography
Tom Vaught, 1st place, Soggy Monday Blues
Mike Field, 2nd place, Red tide continues to plague AMI
Tom Vaught, 3rd place, First day of school
Feature Photography
Maggie Field, 1st place, Silver Sunset
Maggie Field, 2nd place, Meltdown
Joe Sambito, 3rd place, Holiday Moon
Sports Action Photography
Monica Simpson, 1st place, Redemption
Cartooning
Steve Borggren, 1st place, Beautiful sunrise
Steve Borggren, 2nd place, Brick road
Steve Borggren, 3rd place, Ghost tour
Special Awards – That is so… Florida
Cindy Lane, 2nd place, Eat more octopus
Government News Writing
Kristin Swain, 2nd place, Turn back time
Headline Writing
Mike Field, 2nd place, Houndfish
Pat Copeland, 3rd place, Pooh-pooh
Front Page Design
Ricardo Fonseca, 3rd place, Rays