Washington Newspaper Publishers Association


	Awards

Miles Turnbull Master Editor/Publisher Award

The WNPA Board of Trustees created the Master Editor/Publisher Award in 1993 to honor an active editor or publisher who has worked hard and unselfishly and made a significant contribution to his or her newspaper, community and state, as well as to WNPA. Selection criteria also include service to a free press or freedom of information and to the cause of community newspapers.
In 1994 the Board of Trustees renamed the award in recognition of Miles Turnbull, who died during that year. Miles was a quintessential community newspaper publisher, a past president of WNPA and former WNPA executive director.
The award includes a plaque and a WNPA $500 donation to the charity of the recipient's choice. A companion plaque showing all recipients hangs in the WNPA office.
PAST HONOREES

2009 Dave Pinkham, Stanwood/Camano News
2007 John L. Fournier Jr., publisher, Prosser Record-Bulletin, Grandview Herald
2006 Ted Grossman, editor, The Islands' Sounder, Eastsound
2005 Scott Wilson, publisher, The Port Townsend-Jefferson County Leader
2004 No award given
2003 Deborah L. Berto, publisher, The Issaquah Press
2002 No award given
2001 Jerry Robinson, Robinson Newspapers
2000 Jane Meyer, general manager, Mercer Island Reporter
1999 Thomas C. Taylor, publisher, The Peninsula Gateway, Gig Harbor
1998 James Flint, publisher, The Toppenish Review, Wapato Independent
1997 Jeffrey G. Fletcher, publisher, The Grant County Journal, Ephrata
1996 Henry G. Gay, publisher, The Shelton-Mason County Journal
1995 John E. Andrist, co-publisher, The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle
1994 Frank W. Garred, co-publisher, The Port Townsend-Jefferson County Leader

Dixie Lee Bradley Award

Dixie Lee Bradley served members for 45 years as associate director of WNPA. This award, conceived in 1996, symbolizes her devotion to and passion for community newspapers. It recognizes newspaper staff members who work long and hard, often behind the scenes, to see that the best possible community newspaper is produced and distributed each week.
Among the selection criteria is a demonstrated record of consistent, quality work over a considerable time period in any facet of the community newspaper industry, from production and circulation through front office support. Staff members in positions such as photographer and advertising sales are not eligible because these people can be recognized in WNPA's Better Newspaper Contest.
Winners receive an engraved clock and a cash prize of $500. The nominating newspaper and WNPA each contribute $250 to the award.
PAST HONOREES

2008 Patti Rydeen, Stanwood/Camano News

2007 Rhonda Dicksion, Monroe Monitor/Valley News
2005 Marilyn Bardin, Methow Valley News, Twisp
2004 Betty Grewell, The Port Townsend-Jefferson County Leader
2001 Renné Duke, Monroe Monitor/Valley News
2000 JoAnn Anderson, Cashmere Valley Record
1998 Nellie Williams, Whidbey News-Times, Oak Harbor
1997 Elizabeth Widel, The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle

Walter C. Woodward Freedom's Light Award
The Freedom's Light was created by Washington Newspaper Publishers Association in 1995 to honor individuals who have protected or advanced the First Amendment in Washington state, a critical aspect of which is access to public information.
In 2008 this award was renamed in honor of the 1998 recipient, Walter Carlson Woodward. Woodward, publisher of the Bainbridge Island Review during World War II, made journalism history with his passionate, eloquent stand against the internment of 240 of his Bainbridge Island neighbors during the early months of World War II. Their only "crime" was their Japanese ancestry.
As the rest of America, and virtually every other journalist, watched silently, a total of 110,000 Japanese Americans living along the West Coast were rounded up and jailed in prison camps scattered around remote areas of the West for the duration of the war. Woodward editorialized against this injustice and published regular reports from his neighbors imprisoned in the internment camp in Manzanar, Calif. Woodward and Millie, his wife and close business partner, owned the Review from 1940 to 1963. Millie Woodward died in 1999, and Walt Woodward in 2001.
The Walter C. Woodward Freedom's Light Award recognizes a person who has been unwavering in his or her support and practice of the First Amendment. It honors someone who not only believes in the freedom of the press, but who has worked hard and consistently to protect and advance it.
In addition to Woodward, it has been presented to attorneys and elected officials who have devoted their careers to protecting public access to government proceedings.
PAST HONOREES

2009 Frank Garrred, former publisher of the Port Towsend/Jefferson County Leader
2008 Justice Richard B. Sanders, State Supreme Court
2007 Lynn Kessler, State Representative, Hoquiam
2007 Rob McKenna, Washington Attorney General
2006 Toby Nixon, State Representative, Kirkland
2005 No award given
2004 Judge C. Kenneth Grosse, Washington Court of Appeals
2003 Ronal Serpas, Chief, Washington State Patrol
2002 Adam Kline, State Senator, Seattle
2001 Clyde Ballard, Speaker of the House
2000 Brian Sonntag, State Auditor
1999 Michael Killeen, Davis Wright Tremaine
1998 Walt C. Woodward, former publisher and editor, Bainbridge Island Review
1997 Former U.S. House Speaker Thomas Foley
1996 Retired Chief Justice James A. Andersen
1995 Cal Anderson, State Senator, Seattle