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PEOPLE & PLACES

The Rambler and therambler.org received honorable mention overall excellence at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association’s 2013 convention. Fourteen Texas Wesleyan students — Jeremy Hunt, Meisa Keivani Najafabadi, Jonathan Resendez, Eliana Mijangos, Emma Fradette, Rolandra West, Tristian Evans, LaCameya Roper, Jordan Perrin, Candace Johnson, Shauna Banks, Stephanie Randall, R’relle Duncan and Kelsi Holland — garnered 20 individual awards, including two first places, with Rambler TV winning its first award. TIPA comprises community colleges and universities from across Texas. More than 400 students representing 43 schools attended the conference in downtown Fort Worth. ... Still at TIPA, TCC Collegian editor Karen Gavis was named Community College Journalist of the Year. She is the fourth Tarrant County College student to receive the award in the nine years it has been given. She’s headed to Corpus Christi for a summer internship with the Caller-Times. ... Still at TIPA, the UTA Shorthorn staff earned 47 individual awards in the four-year-university division, in addition to Sweepstakes and Best of Show; Editor of the Year, Dustin Dangli; Photojournalist of the Year, Michael Minasi; and Reporter of the Year, Krista Torralva. The recognition follows The Shorthorn’s sea change to a digital-first publication strategy, which received Gold Crown recognition from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association earlier this spring. ...

TCU’s Ryan Osborne is this year’s SPJ Mark of Excellence winner in sports column writing and co-recipient of TIPA’s Reporter of the Year award (shared with Krista Torralva, above) in the large schools category. He is doing a business internship with The Dallas Morning News this summer. ...

The College of Mass Communication at Middle Tennessee State University inducted Fort Worth SPJ member Keith Ryan Cartwright into its Wall of Fame.

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GET A JOB

Catalyst Healthcare Marketing seeks a detail-oriented web writer/editor to develop SEO content on contract. Requirements include a bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, PR or marketing and three years writing/editing for the web. Familiarity with Wordpress and a working knowledge of content management systems and basic HTML is preferred. Experience writing for the medical industry is a plus. More from company president Amy Hall, 214-893-8214, amy@catalysthcm.com ...

The Star-Telegram seeks a tech-savvy assistant business editor/senior reporter to cover defense and aerospace in North Texas. Should have at least five years of reporting in both digital and print. Send résumé, examples of stories on multiple platforms and references to dalexander@star-telegram.com. ...

The Dallas Morning News needs a columnist on its projects and enterprise team who knows how to locate and decipher court records, corporate filings, data fields, utility-company obfuscations, product-warranty legalisms, etc. Qualified candidates, submit résumé and clips to dmnjobs@dallasnews.com.
 
The Fort Worth Business Press has an opening for an aggressive, experienced reporter who combines traditional journalistic abilities with online and social media. Networking, web and social media talents are a must. Send résumé and clips to dfweditor@gmail.com.

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NEW AND RETURNING MEMBERS

PRSA ... Kristin Courtney, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD ... Caroline Cradick, Ilfusion ... Ann Davis, QMobius ... Melody Fritz, Paige Hendricks Public Relations ... Macy Hill, Presbyterian Night Shelter of Tarrant County ... Cathleen Kearns, UNT Health Science Center Osteopathic Research Center ... Sarah Luna, North Central Texas Council of Governments ... Susan Moses, Huguley Memorial Medical Center ... Monica Napier, Bennett Benner Pettit ... Anthony Spangler, Open Channels Group ... Consuelo Thompson ... Whitney Vandiver, North Central Texas Council of Governments ... Jerri Akers ... Jill Eastman, Hartman Leito & Bolt ... Laura Hanna, Texas Wesleyan University ... Corey Lark, Open Channels Group ... Sarah McDaniel-Langhorst, DFW International Airport ... Sarah Shenk, Lockheed Martin Corp. ... Laura Van Hoosier, APR

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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN
Chris Smith, Greater Fort Worth PRSA

With another successful Worthy Awards competition and gala behind us, our next focus is evaluation. Often the most overlooked element in the strategic communications process, evaluation asks the big questions: What worked? What didn’t work? How can we do better?

Evaluation can be applied to much more than one program. How about your job: What’s working, and what isn’t? Is there room for improvement? Apply evaluation to your career: What worked well for you in the past decade? What have you learned from what didn’t work? How can you strengthen your situation?

Here’s what I know about the Worthy Awards program. It worked well the first year, even better the second year, and I have no doubt next year’s committee will exceed expectations again. There were hiccups, of course, but already some committee members are suggesting ways to formalize the process. We’ll just make a good thing even better when we apply all that we’ve learned.

Here’s the most gratifying part of evaluation: Expressing appreciation. In this case, thank you, everyone who participated and in so doing validated a local public relations competition as “worthy” of continuation. A heartfelt thanks to the Worthy committee members for their tirelessness and outstanding execution: Margaret Ritsch, APR; Holly Ellman; Jahnae Stout; Megan Murphey; Liz Heck; Megan Force; Carolyn Bobo, APR, Fellow PRSA; Joe Stout; and Rita Parson.

More write-ups and photos are here and here. This night was a blast. That part’s easy to evaluate!

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OVER & OUT
John Dycus, Fort Worth SPJ

Best thing about our 10th annual First Amendment Awards and Scholarship Dinner might have been the way Gayle Reaves announced the scholarship winners. Called them all to the front, one at a time, and said good things about them. There was significant basking in the glow. Nice touch, pioneered by Dorothy Estes. Still works. Or maybe it was meeting Betty Brink’s family and son-in-law John Maguire’s gracious, moving acceptance of Betty’s Open Doors Award. Or maybe it was that every scholarship recipient RSVPed yes — probably a record — and all but one showed up. Or maybe it was the awards finalists who expressed their gratitude by attending. Had there been a distance traveled trophy, Ryan Loyd and his wife, Sarah, would have taken it back to San Antonio along with the real trophy Ryan won. Relive everything here. We should do this again. Bet we do. ...

How much do public records cost? Trick question. Region 3 director Michael Koretzky offers insight into stonewalling and other devious attitudes in a recent blog post. ...

SPJ is accepting applications for the Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award and the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing through June 22. The $10,000 First Amendment Award recognizes accomplishments on behalf of First Amendment freedoms by an individual, group of individuals or an organization. The $75,000 editorial writing fellowship helps an editorial writer broaden his or her journalistic horizons and knowledge of the world. Provided by the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the annual award can be used to cover the cost of study, research and/or travel in any field. Questions? E- awards director Lauren Rochester at awards@spj.org. ...


Closing words:  “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” — Ben
Franklin, who said a bunch of  things, including “How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.” and “Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.” and “He that lives upon hope will die fasting.” and “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”



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