The Independent Weekly walked away with 29 awards including 12
first-place awards at the Louisiana Press Association luncheon Saturday
in Baton Rouge. The Independent was recognized both for editorial content as well as design. The Ind competed against publications such as Gambit Weekly and CityBusiness (New Orleans) and Baton Rouge Business Report in the free circulation and special interest category.
Our news staff won top honors for feature story, lifestyle coverage, editorial cartoon and community-service reporting. The Independent’s design staff won first place in such categories as staff-generated advertising and in-paper promotions.
Among the many newspapers that submitted entries in the 2008 Better Newspaper Competition, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), The Courier (Houma), Jennings Daily News, The Daily News (Bogalusa), The Plaquemines Gazette (Belle Chasse) and The Bunkie Record earned newspaper of the year honors in their respective divisions, which are based on circulation. The Daily Advertiser won a first-place award for front page.
... written by Mais Non , April 27, 2009 - 10:59 pm
CityBusiness and BRBR are paid correct?
... written by John Walker , April 28, 2009 - 04:13 pm
All of the papers in your final paragraph were not daily newspapers, as you said. Also, you omitted the Daily News (Bogalusa), which also earned Newspaper of the Year in Division 4. Thank you, John H. Walker former editor and publisher The Daily News
... written by Walter Pierce, Managing Editor , April 28, 2009 - 04:17 pm
Sorry for the omission, John.
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There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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