By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Lewis County Sirens’ news web site was honored with an award last night in the Northwest Excellence in Journalism Contest.
The annual competition coordinated by the Society of Professional Journalists recognizes work produced during 2010 in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.
Lewis County Sirens received third place in the category of web sites, specialized subject.
First place in the category went to an all-about-Mount St. Helens [1] site created by The (Longview) Daily News.
And second place went to a meteorologist at KOMOnews.com for a fun facts about weather [2] sub-site.
Publications of all sizes competed against one another in the online division.
The contest honors journalism in all forms of media, such as print, television, radio and online.
Also recognized last night were three staffers from The (Centralia) Chronicle in the competition among daily newspapers with a circulation of 25,000 or less.
Okay, so I was just one of probably a couple hundred people singled out during the shindig last night, held at Safeco Field in Seattle. (The Mariners were elsewhere)
But that’s okay.
I’m just happy that my peers (I’m told members of the Society of Professional Journalists in Colorado judged the entries) think I’m doing good work.
And third place is really pretty darn good for me, a simple news reporter, who knows next-to-nothing about creating a web site.