I just found out that the articles I wrote for The Roblin Review on my trip to Vimy for the 90th anniversary of the battle was named Best Feature Article by the Manitoba Community Newspaper Association. Now my cousin Lindsay Kines isn’t the only award winning journalist in the family. Oh sure he won awards for writing on stuff like the disappearance of women from Vancouver’s Lower East Side, that was part of the reason police started paying more attention to it, which in turn lead to the arrest of some guy named Robert Picton for the murders of 27 women. But I mean really anyone can win awards with writing that sort of fluff.
I was also nominated for Best Feature Article nationally in the Canadian Community Newspaper Association awards but, unlike Kent of the North and inflatable elvis, I failed to crack the top three spots nationally. But hey, it was the first newspaper article I’ve ever written, just wait for the second one.
It takes awhile for me to get the hometown paper up here, but this is what the editor wrote about the awards. Thanks Ed.
Vimy feature picks up MCNA award
(Roblin Review April 15th, 2008)
The Review only picked up one award in this year’s Manitoba Community Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Competition.
But it was for one editor Ed Doering really wanted the paper to win.
"Clare Kines did a wonderful job for us on his trip to the 90th anniversary celebrations at Vimy Ridge and i really hoped he would be recognized for his efforts." Doering said.
Kines’ journey to Vimy was featured in the April 24 issue and won first place in the Best Feature Story competition.
"I had hoped the feature would be recognized at the national level but unfortunately it wasn’t." Doering said, noting it was also nominated in the Canadian Community Newspaper Association competition.
"I think it really deserved to be." he added.
Update: Here are some pictures of articles. I think that much of the credit needs to go to Ed, for he did a masterful job on the layout, which was designed as a four page pull out in the centre of the paper.
Teaser on Front Page
Main Article
The two other articles
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Right on, Clare!
Congratulations, Clare. For the nomination as well as the award — nominations generally indicate quality; awards are fine if you win, but if you don’t, it doesn’t mean the quality’s not there.
Thanks Mike and Pete.
Good job.
Thanks Megan
That’s awesome, congrats! And you most certainly can add “award-winning” to your resume. How cool is that?
Thanks Kate, I’m pretty tickled.
Yes it does. THat is the first damn thing I did after getting an award, change it on my resume.
Check the APTN bio page, I put it in there.
That’s why journalists give themselves so many awards, so that we can call ourselves “award winning” at contract time.
Also, i-elvis is the only one to crack national… I’ve been consistantely shut out of those honours.
Also, Manitoba, that means you were in competition with the Kivalliq News. Greer must be shaking in his boots 🙂
Hey Kent, there it is on the bio page “Award Winning Journalist”.
This has been pretty exciting for me, especially since journalism isn’t really my career (does blogging count?). Kind of makes me feel like a real writer.
Geez. I missed this one Clare! I must have been flying somewhere or another. Over due congradulations are in order!!! Well done.
Thank you very much Gary. Makes that 53 in Grade XII English all that sweeter.