Monday, May 21, 2012

Business Journal wins 12 Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards

The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal won 12 awards at the 35th annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards given by the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club Saturday night.

The Business Journal awards were in the non-daily newspaper category and the broadband category.

The paper won were five First Place awards, four Second Place awards and three Third Place awards.

The paper won one of only two overall excellence awards for broadband journalism in a competition in which all media — daily, non-daily and others — in the Bay Area were judged together.

The non-daily newspaper awards were:

Breaking News — First Place: "Solyndra goes dark," by Mary Ann Azavedo, Diana Samuels, Lisa Sibley, David Goll, Cromwell Schubarth, Linda Taafe, Colleen Combes.

Editorial — Multimedia/Research Editor Cromwell Schubarth won all three awards: First Place, "Keep Solyndra flu from making rest of clean tech sick;" Second Place, "It's time to start Stanford hospitals' expansion project;" Third Place, "Caltrain moves don't get where they need to go."

Headline — Second Place: "Fowl moves: Three major decisions that didn't fly," Cromwell Schubarth.

Page Design — First Place went to a page designed by Barry Baldi on the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Third Place went to a page designed by Colleen Combes and Linda Taaffe on Apple's planned new headquarters.

The broadband awards were won in a competition against all newspapers and print publications in the Bay Area. They were:

Overall Excellence — Second Place: Cromwell Schubarth, Lisa Sibley, Jon Xavier.

Breaking News — First Place: "Carol Bartz ousted as Yahoo CEO:" Diana Samuels, Cromwell Schubarth, Jon Xavier, Colleen Combes. Third Place: "Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is dead," Cromwell Schubarth, Colleen Combes, Lisa Sibley, Jon Xavier, Moryt Milo, Shana Lynch, Mary Ann Azavedo, Diana Samuels, Eli Segall, David Goll, Vicki Thompson, Lemery Reyes.

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