Business Report received 21 awards, including first place for general excellence and best news coverage, at the Louisiana Press Association convention on Saturday at the Hilton Lafayette.
In winning for general excellence and best news coverage, Business Report was honored for its May 19, 2009, issue, which included a cover package on Perkins Rowe’s legal problems and a feature story on disbarred attorney E. Eric Guirard, and its Aug. 11, 2009, issue, which included a cover story on the battle over Alligator Bayou. “Very comprehensive,” said judges from the Florida Press Association.
Other first-place awards went to Executive Editor JR Ball, Managing Editor Scott Gremillion and Art Director Hoa Vu for the April 21, 2009, cover of a doctor towering over Baton Rouge to depict health care as the city’s economic giant, and the Aug. 25, 2009, cover of a smoking gun to illustrate the impact of crime on economic development; former 10/12 magazine editor Penny Font for her March 10, 2009 cover profile of state education superintendent Paul Pastorek; Ball for his April 7, 2009, column on priority-based budgeting and his Oct. 6, 2009 column on the Alive controversy; Ball, writer David Jacobs and former StartUp editor Olivia Watkins for their coverage of the Stanford scandal; the Business Report website, businessreport.com, led by online editor Timothy Boone and web editor Brandi Simmons; photographer Don Kadair for his June 30, 2009, package of young entrepreneurs in the Capital Region; Vu and graphic designer Jeff Hay for their ad campaign for Peters Financial Wealth; and Vu for his Top Dog/Fat Cat in-paper color promotion and his advertisement for Global Data Systems. For the full story, click here.
