AltWeekly Awards
2009 Innovation Above 50,000
1st Place: Washington City Paper Files for Chapter 86 Content Bankruptcy by Erik Wemple, Andrew Beaujon and Jule Banville , Washington City Paper
2nd Place: The Adventures of Kwame-man (PDF)
by Curt Guyette, W. Kim Heron and Sean Bieri
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Metro Times
3rd Place: The Official Village Voice Election-Season Guide to the Right-Wing Blogosphere
by Roy Edroso
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The Village Voice
2009 Innovation Below 50,000
1st Place: Things To Do in Santa Fe When You're Undead by Dave Maass, Ursula Coyote and Random Zombie Fans , Santa Fe Reporter
2nd Place: Superhero vs. Autobiographical Comics (PDF)
by Coury Turczyn, Matthew Everett and Travis Gray
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Metro Pulse
3rd Place: Christmas Sex Stories Contest, "A Tingle of Joy" (PDF), "Barely Christmas" (PDF) and "Treesome" (PDF)
by Tom Bagley, Genevieve Simm and Travis Sengaus
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FFWD Weekly
Honorable Mention: Anti-Coverage for Anti-Pop (PDF)
by Justin Strout and Shan Stumpf
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Orlando Weekly
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
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Westword
3rd Place: The Shadow Economy Series
by Jeffrey Anderson, Edward Ericson, Jr., Chris Landers and Van Smith
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Baltimore City Paper
Honorable Mention: To Hug a Porcupine
by Deirdra Funcheon
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New Times Broward-Palm Beach
2009 Investigative Reporting Below 50,000
1st Place: Might Makes Right by Jeffrey C. Billman , Orlando Weekly
2nd Place: Greka’s Monkey Business
by Ethan Stewart
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Santa Barbara Independent
3rd Place: Don’t Bother (PDF)
by Susan Clark Armstrong
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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
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Westword
3rd Place: Pushing Paper
by G.W. Miller III
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Philadelphia Weekly
2009 Media Reporting/Criticism Below 50,000
1st Place: Fear Factor by David Koon and Gerard Matthews , Arkansas Times
2nd Place: Cuts to Run Deep at N&O, The Herald-Sun's nosedive and What's Up? More bad news at The N&O
by Fiona Morgan
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INDY Week
3rd Place: The Incredible Shrinking Sentinel
by Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Bob Whitby and Deanna Sheffield
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Orlando Weekly
