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Times Free Press honored in Green Eyeshade journalism awards

Staff file photo/Robin Rudd / The Chattanooga Times Free Press, at 400 East 11th St., is seen in 2023. The newspaper won 11 awards for its 2024 work, including eight first-place honors, in the Society of Professional Journalists' Green Eyeshade Awards.
Staff file photo/Robin Rudd / The Chattanooga Times Free Press, at 400 East 11th St., is seen in 2023. The newspaper won 11 awards for its 2024 work, including eight first-place honors, in the Society of Professional Journalists' Green Eyeshade Awards.


The Chattanooga Times Free Press was recognized for its work in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Awards.

The Times Free Press won 11 awards for work in 2024, including eight first-place awards, in the contest among news organizations across 12 Southeastern states.

Times Free Press first-place awards were for:

› General news writing, for Ellen Gerst’s coverage of the shooting of Roger Heard Jr. during service of a warrant at the Speedway gas station by plainclothes Chattanooga police officers