The
Skanner Wins Top Honors in African American Journalism
http://www.theskanner.com/index.php?action=artd&artid=6892
The Skanner News Group won three honors at the National Newspaper
Publishers Association national convention on June 26 in Louisville, KY,
including the prestigious 2008 A. Phillip Randolph Messenger Award.
Considered the very highest honor given in the field of African American
journalism, The Skanner’s former news editor, Helen Silvis, has now won the
prize twice for the newspaper, in 2005 and in 2008. The Skanner News Group is
the only newspaper in the five western states of Washington, Oregon, Colorado,
Nevada, and Arizona, to ever win the award twice.
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