On Saturday, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the Medill School of Journalism announced the winners of the 13th annual Altweekly Awards at the association’s convention in Philadelphia. Birmingham Weekly’s ‘War on Dumb’ took first place for best political column in the 55,000-and-under circulation division.
The weekly column by staff writer Kyle Whitmire examines political culture in Birmingham and Alabama.
Birmingham Weekly last received a first place award in 1999 for media criticism by then-staff writer Tom Spencer. In recent years, Birmingham Weekly writers have been runners up for commentary, political commentary and arts criticism.
You can find the rest of the 2008 Altweekly Award winners here at www.aan.org.
The winning submission included three columns from 2007 — two about Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford and one about Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s Alabama PAC scheme to sidestep federal campaign finance laws.
You can read the winning columns by following the links below.
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June 10th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Congratulations!!!!!! Keep on fighting the gooder fight.
ZM
June 12th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Congratulations on a well-deserved award! I’ve lost count of the number of times I have linked to the Romney article.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Congrats, but let’s keep this quiet in order to keep Kyle as an occupying soldier in the War on Dumb.
Just sayin’