Labor Photo: Council Website Wins Front Page Award
Friday, April 6, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Metro Council Union City staffers Chris Garlock, Julia Kann and former staffer
Adam Wright accepted the “Distinguished Website Design” award at the
Newspaper Guild’s Front Page Awards on March 31. The annual awards are given
by the Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA Local 32035 to recognize the best work by its
members during the previous calendar year. Other winners included Jamie
Smith-Hopkins for his Baltimore Sun story last year investigating the impact of
home mortgage defaults on city housing prices, and Washington Post photographer
Mark Gail for his picture of a boxer carefully prepping for his next bout. The
union also honored members and units for outstanding service in 2011 to their
organizations or to the Guild, including the brand-new Connie Knox Memorial
Award “for long and distinguished service to the Washington-Baltimore
Newspaper Guild” which was given, posthumously, to Ms. Knox, who died last
year just after her retirement as International Chair of The Newspaper
Guild-CWA. Another Guild Service award, for outstanding customer service to the
winner’s organization, was been renamed in honor of the late J. Darlene Meyer
of the Post, the WBNG Vice President who died in January. Meyer, the paper’s
specialist in legal advertising and a veteran leader of WBNG’s unit at the
paper, was also honored posthumously with the award. James Crudup of the
Washington Post was named the 2011 Organizer of the Year “for outstanding
recruitment efforts in a unit,” and Dawan Jones of the National Association of
Social Workers was awarded the Nadine Grinder Memorial Award for 2011 Steward of
the Year. - photo (left to right) of Kann,
Wright, WBNG President Sheila Lindsay, Garlock, and Front Page Committee
Chairman Mark Gruenberg; photo by Lisa Garlock