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New community journalism award offered by Fort Worth SPJ

A “Community Watchdog” award will be given to a Texas community newspaper this year. The new prize is part of the Fort Worth Society of Professional Journalists’ First Amendment Awards, and is open to community newspapers throughout the state. The watchdog award is one of 10 different categories in the SPJ contest. All are open to media throughout Texas, but the Community Watchdog award is open only to publications under 10,000 circulation. The call for entries says the award will be given to “exemplary work – news, feature, investigative, opinion – involving public records.”

By Kathryn Jones Malone

Kathryn Jones Malone is co-director of the Texas Center for Community Journalism. She began her career as a staff writer at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, then worked as a staff writer for the Dallas Times Herald and The Dallas Morning News; as a contract writer for The New York Times; as a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly magazine; as editor of the Glen Rose Reporter; and as a freelance writer for numerous state, regional and national magazines. She teaches journalism at Tarleton State University.