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Boise Weekly Wins State Awards, Honored for Coverage of Minorities

By AAN Staff

may 7, 2009 09:21 am

Boise Weekly Wins State Awards, Honored for Coverage of Minorities

The Weekly took home "an armload of awards" from the Idaho Press Club's Best of 2008 competition, including five first-place awards, for arts/entertainment reporting, business reporting, health/medical reporting, political reporting and watchdog/investigative reporting. Weekly staff writer Tara Morgan was also named Rookie of the Year for her work in 2008. Meanwhile, the Hispanic Cultural Center of Idaho awarded the alt-weekly an Animo award in the Outstanding Newspaper category for non-biased coverage of not only the Latino community, but of all minority communities in the area.

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