NFPW 2019 Winners

Barbara Brown
Third Place
Blogs – Personal
“Our Third Thirds”

Leona Long
Third Place
Public Service
“Communicating UAF’s Commitment to Preserving Alaska”
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Honorable Mention
News or Feature Release – Single Release
“Breathing Life Into Alaska’s Indigenous Languages”
University of Alaska Fairbanks

First Place
Media Pitch
“Sharing Positive Alaska Native Suicide Prevention Strategies”
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Bonnie Matthews
First Place
Young Adult Books – Fiction
Integrity, 130,000 BC: The Cerutti Mastodon Site
BooksbyBonnye

Rhonda McBride
First Place
On-the-scene report (news, features, or sports) – Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride – Zuill Bailey: Musical Messenger
KTVA-TV, Channel 11, Denali Media

Third Place
Prepared Report (news, features, sports or opinion) – Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride – Teen Dating Violence: Bree’s Law
KTVA-TV, Channel 11, Denali Media

First Place
Talk Show (Radio or Television)
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Wildlife Photography –From Gators to Grizzlies
KTVA-TV, Channel 11, Denali Media

First Place
Special Programming – Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Bella Hammond’s Alaska
KTVA-TV, Channel 11, Denali Media

Keenan Powell
Third Place
Fiction for Young Readers – Novels (40,000 words or up)
Deadly Solution
Keenan Powell Author

Alaska Professional Communicators 2019 Winners

Joy Bax
First Place
Single photograph-News or feature photo
South Anchorage Hillside Living (magazine cover)
Co-Entrant Janna Hardy – Photographer

Second Place
Photograph-writer
Seeing Africa
Feature Story-Magazine, newsletter or other non-newspaper publication
A couple that was meant to be: Meet Wayne and Ginny Ross

Adelyn Baxter
First Place
Prepared Report (news, features, sports or opinion) – Radio
Juneau teens rap about Tlingit culture, smoking “a fat pound of salmon” in new bilingual music video
KTOO Public Media

Barbara Brown
First Place
Blogs – Personal
“Our Third Thirds”

Leona Long
First Place
Public Service
Communicating UAF’s Commitment to Preserving Alaska Native Cultures
University of Alaska Fairbanks

First Place
News or feature release – single release
Breathing New Life into Alaska’s Indigenous Languages
University of Alaska Fairbanks

First Place
Media pitch
Sharing Positive Alaska Native Suicide Prevention Strategies
University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Rural Community

Bonnye Matthews
First Place
Young-adult books – Fiction
Integrity, 130,000 BC: The Cerutti Mastodon Site

Rhonda McBride
First Place
Special programming – Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Bella Hammond’s Alaska
KTVA-TV, Channel 11, Denali Media

First Place
Prepared Report – Television (news features, sports or opinion)
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Teen Dating Violence – Bree’s Law
KTVA-TV, Channel 11, Denali Media

First Place
On the Scene Report – Television (news, features or sports)
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Zuill Bailey, Musical Messenger
KTVA-TV, Channel 11, Denali Media

First Place
Talk Show – Radio or Television
Frontiers with Rhonda McBride: Wildlife Photography—From Gators to Grizzlies
KTVA-TV, Channel 11, Denali Media

Keenan Powell
First Place
Fiction for adult readers, Novels
Deadly Solution

Kathleen Tarr
First Place
Specialty Articles-Religion
Anchorage’s First Archbishop Enticed Thomas Merton to Alaska

Miriam Wagoner
First Place
30 Interview-Radio or Television
Poetry in Calligraphy Public Exhibit—a radio interview

Honorable Mention
Creative Verse-Single Poem
“One Word, One World”