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AMP Members Bring Home 5 First-Place Awards in National Communications Contest


Nine Alabama Media Professionals members won 15 awards in the National Federation of Press Women 2015 Communications Contest.

Five of those nine earned a first place award, including Meredith Cummings, Donna Francavilla, Mary Eloise Leake, Elaine Hobson Miller, and Joy Sandlin.

  • Cummings won for a personal blog.

  • Francavilla won for an on-the-scene television report.

  • Leake won for writing a specialty article about arts or entertainment.

  • Miller won for a personality profile that appeared in "Discover the Essence of St. Clair" magazine.

  • Sandlin won for a website she manages for the Birmingham Association of Realtors.

Nancy Dorman-Hickson received two second-place awards: one for writing a specialty articles about business; the other for designing and writing PR materials, a magazine; and a third for writing a specialty articles about agriculture, agribusiness, or aquaculture. She also won honorable mentions in the Feature Story category and the Specialty Articles - Green/Environmental category.

Francavilla won a second-place award in the Prepared Report-Television category and a third-place award in the Prepared Report - Radio category.

Carolanne Roberts took a second place in the PR Materials - Brochures category, and Chanda Temple received an honorable mention in the Marketing Program or Campaign category, and Johnny L. Stevens, a journalism professor at Spring Hill College in Mobile, received a third-place award as a faculty adviser of a student television station.

Award certificates will be presented at the contest awards banquet at the 2015 NFPW Communications Conference in Anchorage, Alaska.

We have meetings on the second Thursday in January, February, May, June, July, August, September, and November. During these meetings, we hear from renowned industry experts who provide helpful information and skills training. Monthly meetings also provide networking opportunities and encouragement from others in the communications field.

 

​AMP Members can attend monthly meetings for free. Non-members can attend for a fee of $5. In April, we have our annual Communications Contest Awards Banquet where our communications contest winners are announced, our Communicator of Achievement is recognized and new officers are installed.

 

​In October and March, we hold intensive professional-development workshops. In December we host a holiday party.

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