Press Clips

 [Note: The following awards are from my work at the alternative newsmagazine, The Times of Acadiana in Lafayette, Louisiana. I worked at the locally owned publication from 1986-1998, mostly as a full-time, long-form features journalist and senior editor, but in the last years, as a freelance contributor. I left journalism in 1999. The Times of Acadiana was sold that same year to Gannet Newspapers.] 

  • National Newspaper Association--1998 

    First Place: Best Coverage of the Performing Arts [“Transcending Regionalism” (profile of photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery)] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1995 

    First Place: Personality Profile [“How Much is That Blue Doggie in the Window?” (profile of artist George Rodrigue)] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1995 

    First Place: Best Feature Story 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1994 

    First Place: Best Feature Story [“Blood Sport”/an inside look at the illegal sport of dog fighting] 

  • National Federation of Press Women--1993 

    Honorable Mention [Child Beauty Pageants] 

  • Louisiana Press Association--1993  Second Place: Feature Story [Child Beauty Pageants] 2 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1993 

    First Place: Best Feature Story [Child Beauty Pageants] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1993 

    First Place: Personality Profile [New Iberia restaurateur Hallman Woods] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1993 

    Third Place: Social Issues [Mid-life crisis/Carl Jung] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1992 

    First Place: Best Travel Reporting [“Just Paris”]  

  • Louisiana Press Women-1992 

    First Place: Best Personality Profile  [“The Boogie Kings are Back”] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1992 

    Second Place: Feature Story [“The Faces of Downtown”] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1992 

    Second Place: Social Issues Reporting

  • Louisiana State Medical Society--1992 

    Meritorious Award for Medical Reporting [Women and AIDS] 

  • National Federation of Press Women--1991 

    Second Place: Social Issues [“Gay Lafayette”] 3 

  • National Federation of Press Women--1991 

    Honorable Mention: Arts & Entertainment

  • Louisiana Press Women--1991 

    First Place: Best Social Issue Reporting [“Gay Lafayette”] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1991 

    First Place: Best Travel Reporting 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1991 

    First Place: Best Personal Column 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1991 

    Second Place: Feature Story 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1990 

    First Place: Best Arts & Entertainment Reporting [“The Fight Game: An Inside Look at the Colorful and Controversial Sport of Cockfighting”] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1990 

    First Place: Best Travel Story 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1990 

    First Place: Best Social Issues Reporting 

  • National Federation of Press Women--1989 

    Second Place: Best Personality Profile [“Out of Africa” profile on sculptor John Geldersma] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1989 

    First Place: Best Feature Story [John Geldersma] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1989 4 

    Second Place: Personality Profile 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1989 

    Third Place: Personal Column 

  • National Federation of Press Women--1988 

    First Place: Best Feature Story [“Mysterious Medicine: The Traiteurs of South Louisiana”] 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1988 

    First Place: Best Feature Story [“Mysterious Medicine”] 

  • National Federation of Press Women-1988 

    Third Place: Personal Column 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1988 

    First Place: Personal Column 

  • Louisiana Press Women--1987 

    First Place: Personality Profile [Songwriter Bobby Charles] 

JOURNALISM AWARDS

Katrinna Cherie