Alabama Press Association Media Awards recognized the Selma Sun with 13 awards Tuesday, including a first-place award for its outdoor section and several first-place awards for the Sun’s use of multimedia.
This year, 52 publications submitted 1,858 entries in the annual APA contest, which was judged by the Illinois Press Association membership. Newspapers competed in divisions based on circulation size. First place awards in many categories and divisions will be presented at the 2022 APA Summer Convention banquet awards program in June.
In the awards announced Tuesday, the Selma Sun’s Outdoor Section was named the best publication in its class. The Sun also received first-place awards for creative use of multimedia for its online news program Spotlight produced by Publisher Cindy Fisher and staff members Todd Prater and Chico Cleveland. The Sun’s Spotlight podcast produced by Fisher and Prater also won a first-place award, as did its Instagram site, which is produced by Cleveland.
The Sun received first place for the best use of short video for a video covering a fire and second place for video coverage of the bridge crossing. The Sun won second and third place in the category of best use of longer videos for coverage of a COVID clinic and a story about a local physician receiving his COVID vaccine. All videos were produced by Fisher and Cleveland.
The Sun’s ribbon cutting was named the best community event in its category.
In other awards, a story about the effects of COVID on the local economy written by Associate Publisher Brad Fisher won second place in the business story category. The article “Selma Police Department in Crisis” by Fisher and Prater placed third in the category of in-depth news coverage.
Cindy Fisher said she was proud that the Sun was recognized for its work in both print and digital categories.
“The Selma Sun is at its heart a traditional print publication,” she said. “But we’re proud that here in the Black Belt of Alabama, we are showing that we can keep our public informed about their community with the latest digital media.”
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