| Show THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL 1993 MOAB TIMES-INDEPENDENT 1994 Weekly UINTAH BASIN STANDARD Daily DESERET NEWS OF FAME Sam Adrien Taylor Craig Ashby Wm James Mortimer On more than one occasion during the years the Better Newspaper Contest has functioned an effort was made to have the association automatically enter its contest winners in the National Newspaper Associationcompetition The idea has never been adopted Those who ve favored it argue that the Beehive State might have had more national winners if the blue ribbon Utah papers had been in the NNA running They ve contended that onlyfew of Utahoutstanding entries have been submitted by publishers for national judging and consequently many commendable examples of the statejournalistic skills have gone unnoticed As it is some Utah papers have captured national prizes but the numbers are minimal Since no record of all of them has been maintained itperhaps unwise to single any of them out However records reflect NEA NNA Springuille Herald the Nephi award plaques for the Times-News the Richfield Reaper the Moab Times-Independent the Box Elder NewsJournal the Washington County News the Morgan County News the Price Sun-Advocate the Southern Utah News and the Murray Eagle Itpossible there were others but no records have been maintained by Utah Press Association One result was well-publicized and witnessed by Utahns It was the 1959 National Editorial Association humorous column-writing contest for papers with less than000 circulation It was won by Howard Mac McConaughy of the Morgan County News His AntEye View waspopular feature of the three papers he then published -the Park Record and the Summit County Bee in addition to Morgan It was good fortune that the convention took place at the vener able old Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs Colorado and USPA had decided to make it the locale of its summer convention Asresult the 46-member Utah contingent on hand to 399 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
