Jill's Award!!

 

Media General announces the winners of the eighth annual D. Tennant Bryan Awards. The awards, named in memory of the founder of Media General Inc., are presented for outstanding journalism at MG newspapers, television stations and Web sites.

Publishing Awards
Winners in the Publishing Division’s news, feature and photo categories were selected from among the recipients of the monthly MegaAwards, and winners in the page design and column/editorial writing were selected from entries submitted by each paper. Judging was conducted by newspaper editors outside Media General. Awards are given in Metro and Community categories. The metro category consists of daily newspapers in Richmond, Va., Winston-Salem, N.C., Tampa Fla., Virginia Business magazine and the Media General Washington Bureau. The Community category consists of Media General’s 22 other daily newspapers and weeklies.

Photography (Community): Jill Nance of The News & Advance (Lynchburg, Va.) for her photo of a grandson of the Rev. Jerry Falwell sitting on the ground in front of the casket at Falwell’s funeral.

Judges' comments: "I don’t know how you could take a better photograph of this event. It is so perfect that I honestly wondered at first glance it if was staged. … It tells the whole story without any distractions and it has the serene quality of a strong landscape photograph."