8/2/2019 Washtenaw the Voice Staff

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2012 Michigan Community College Press Association JudgingForm

Place of award: Honorable Mention

First Place Second Place Third Place Honorable Mention

Category: First Amendment Reporting

Headline/title of entry: Shooting the Messenger

Contestant’s name: Voice Staff

College name: The Washtenaw Voice

Judge’s comments: This was a terrific response to a letter to the editor, criticizinga story for vagueness, etc. Responding to that Letter to the Editor – explainingthe challenges to obtaining the information and also including some examples,was effective, straight-forward, educating and a great service to the public. Itwould have been even better to use this as an opportunity to do a feature storywith a number of examples and to ask the Campus Police/Security to respond aspart of the story.