The Chattanooga Times Free Press won eight first-place awards in the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists Golden Press Card Contest on Saturday.
Among the newspaper's top honors was the prestigious Horace V. Wells Jr. Community Service Award. The newspaper's staff won for the year-long health series "The Shape We're In."
Other first-place "Award of Excellence" winners were:
* Best breaking news report, "Signal Mountain Shooting," by Jacqueline Koch and Maddie Burke.
* Best feature writing, "Holding Onto Hope," by Emily Bregel.
* Best sports reporting, "Prep Blitz," sports staff.
* Best Page One design, "State of the Arts," by Lin Parker.
* Best deadline photography, "Rainbow Kayaker" by Matt Fields-Johnson.
* Best art illustration, "The Perfect Catch," by Laura McNutt.
* Best online use of photography, Dan Henry.
The newspaper's "Award of Merit" winners were:
* Best website, www.timesfreepress.com
* Best editorial writing , "1,804 Subsidies," and "Politics of Destruction" by the Chattanooga Free Press and Chattanooga Times opinion staffs.
* Best personal column, "The Virtues of Baseball," by Mark Kennedy.
* Best inside page design, "Life & Home," by Ms. Parker.
* Best deadline photography, "Mail Run," by Mr. Henry..