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AltWeekly Awards

2009 Election Coverage Below 50,000

2nd Place (tie): Election 2008 by Portland Phoenix Freelancers , Portland Phoenix

2009 Feature Story Above 50,000

1st Place: The Good Soldier by Joel Warner , Westword
2nd Place: Sober by Thomas Wheatley , Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
3rd Place: Father of Invention by Joel Warner , Westword
Honorable Mention: From Silver Lake to Suicide by Barry Isaacson , L.A. Weekly
Honorable Mention: Mental Anguish by Margaret Downing , Houston Press

2009 Feature Story Below 50,000

1st Place: Private Trauma by Patrick Michels , The Texas Observer
2nd Place: His Last War by Jeff Prince , Fort Worth Weekly
3rd Place: See No Evil by Emily DePrang , The Texas Observer
Honorable Mention: Boys of Summer (PDF) by Luke Baumgarten , The Inlander

2009 Investigative Reporting Above 50,000

1st Place: Prescription for Disaster by John Dickerson , Phoenix New Times
2nd Place: State of Emergency by Jared Jacang Maher , Westword
3rd Place: The Shadow Economy Series by Jeffrey Anderson, Edward Ericson, Jr., Chris Landers and Van Smith , Baltimore City Paper
Honorable Mention: To Hug a Porcupine by Deirdra Funcheon , New Times Broward-Palm Beach

2009 Investigative Reporting Below 50,000

1st Place: Might Makes Right , Orlando Weekly
2nd Place: Greka’s Monkey Business by Ethan Stewart , Santa Barbara Independent
3rd Place: Don’t Bother (PDF) by Susan Clark Armstrong , Folio Weekly

2009 Media Reporting/Criticism Above 50,000

1st Place: One Mission, Two Newsrooms by Erik Wemple , Washington City Paper
2nd Place: The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down, Five Rocky Stars Who Could Be Going Up and Last Rites on the Rocky Mountain News's Twittering by Michael Roberts , Westword
3rd Place: Pushing Paper by G.W. Miller III , Philadelphia Weekly
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