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Schurz Innovation Award winners named

Schurz Innovation Award winners named
By Margaret Fosmoe, South Bend…

General Excellence to Advocate-Messenger, Jessamine Journal

Kentucky Group wins 70 awards in contest
The Kentucky Group won 70 awards in the Kentucky Press Association Editorial contest including first place for General Excellence by the Danville Advocate-Messenger and the Jessamine Journal.

The competition was by circulation categories with Danville competing in  the Daily Class 2 division , the Winchester Sun in the Daily Class 1 division, t…

Sports Photo Of Year Tops SCI Awards in INPA Contest

Schurz Communications Indiana properties won 11 awards, including Sports Photographer of the Year recognition, in the Indiana News Photographers Association annual contest.

Winners were announced in February after the judging on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington.

Robert Franklin, a South Bend Tribune photographer, won the Sports Photographer of the Year award.

Franklin was…

Danville’s Nelson to Kentucky Hall of Fame

John Nelson, executive editor of  The Danville Advocate-Messenger and its sister publications in Stanford, Nicholasville and Winchester, has been selected as an inductee to the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.

Nelson, a past president of the Kentucky Press Association, is one of five inductees. 

Scott C. Schurz Jr., president, editor and publisher of the Kentucky Group said, “We ar…

Herald-Mail Nominated for Business Award

Herald-Mail Nominated for Business Award
   Herald-Mail Media has been  nominated for a 2013 Washington County Business Award.

   The company was named a  finalist for the Leading Edge Award, which is given each year to a Washington County business that leverages technology to advance its organization.

   HM Media was nominated for its expansion into television news in…

2012 Employee Awards Made at Tribune

2012 Employee Awards made at Tribune
   Peggy Bassier of the advertising department is the newest recipient of the Franklin D. Schurz Award for an outstanding full-time employee of the South Bend Tribune.

Robert Jackson of the subscriber services department received the Franklin D. Schurz Award for a part-time employee.

   Those 2012 honors and others were announced at The Tribune’s…

Cocanougher is Danville Employee of the Year

Cocanougher is Danville employee of the year

James Cocanougher has beern awarded the first annual Mary Schurz Award presented to The Employee of the Year at The Advocate-Messenger in Danville, Ky.

Cocanougher is maintenance manger has been with The Advocate for 19 years.

Scott Schurz Jr., president, editor and publisher of The Advocate said James epitomizes teamwork within our…

Benton selected Winchester Sun 2012 Employee of the Year

Winchester Sun 

2012 Employee of the Year 

Rhonda Benton was selected as the recipient The Winchester Sun’s 2012 Fred Baber Employee of the Year Award.

Benton currently serves as a classified sales representative and oversees front office operations. She originally joined the staff in July 2010 as an advertising sales consultant. She is a graduate of George Rogers Clark High Schoo…

Ukraine Project

Ukraine project - SCI teams working with New Day publications

By LIZ THOMPSON

Digital Director

Hagerstown Herald-Mail

   Twenty years ago, not long after their country declared independence from the former Soviet Union, a group of journalists in a small city in Ukraine dared to start a media company called New Day.

   Despite an office bombing and with none of t…

Schurz Partners With IB, TownNews

Schurz Partners With IB, TownNews
By Michael Depp,…