Journal wins nnine press awrds: MinistryMatters layout honored.Ottawa The Anglican Journal took nine prizes at the annual convention of Canadian Church Press here on May 9, including the top award for treatment of a news event, which recognized the newspaper's coverage of the residential schools issue by reporter Solange De Santis. Judges in that category said that Ms. De Santis' reporting "does an excellent job of presenting the unvarnished truth to its readers." MinistryMatters, General Synod's magazine for people involved in ministry, won two awards, one for the layout of its coverage of General Synod The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations. Church of England In the Church of England, General Synod was instituted in 1970 and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had , and one for poetry. The latter award recognized a poem entitled Full Net by Huntsville, Ont., writer Mel Malton, published in the Spring, 2001 edition. Archbishop Michael Peers The Most Reverend Michael Geoffrey Peers (born 1934) was Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada from 1986 till 2004. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1934, Archbishop Peers completed an undergraduate degree in languages at the University of British Columbia in 1956 , the primate, won two honorable mentions, one for a pastoral letter Pastoral letters are open letters addressed by a bishop to the clergy or laity of his diocese, or to both, containing either general admonition, instruction or consolation, or directions for behaviour in particular circumstances. published on the front page of the Journal after the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and one for the monthly column Grace Notes which he has been writing for several years. Website manager Leanne Larmondin won an honorable mention in the original written humor category for an article describing bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu hoops organizers of a joint Lutheran-Anglican service had to jump through to be able to serve sacramental sacramental, in the Roman Catholic Church, aid to devotion that is not a sacrament. Sacramentals are commonly divided into six classes: prayer, anointing, eating, confession, giving, and blessings. wine in a public arena at last summer's General Synod. The judges said "This piece is proof that the way to handle ridiculous bureaucracy is with humor." Saskia Rowley, who does layout and design for both the Journal and MinistryMatters, won three awards for her work with the Anglican Journal as well as the one for layout of MinistryMatters. She was honored for feature layout and design for the special supplement on General Synod, September, 2001, front page layout :For the Wikipedia policy about articles layout, see Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. for the same edition of the newspaper, and layout and design of an entire edition, also for the September, 2001 edition of the Journal which included the General Synod supplement. The judges complimented Ms Rowley for the "disciplined and thoughtful way" in which she combines disparate elements including typography typography (tīpŏg`rəfē), the art of printing from movable type. The term typographer is today virtually synonymous with a master printer skilled in the techniques of type and paper stock selection, ornamentation, and composition. to present the newspaper in a unified and attractive way. First prize in the category honoring layout of an entire edition went to The Anglican, the newspaper of the Anglican diocese of Toronto The Diocese of Toronto is an administrative division of the Anglican Church of Canada covering the central part of Southern Ontario. It is the largest Anglican diocese in Canada and one of the largest in North America in terms of numbers of parishioners, clergy and parishes, . Toronto artist Anna Payne-Krzyzanowski won the Journal an award in the original artwork category for an Easter theme painting published on the front page in April, 2001, which was captioned "This story does not end." Journal editor Vianney (Sam) Carriere was honored for black and white photography for a panoramic view of the General Synod meeting, published on the front page of the supplement. The photograph showed synod members listening to Archbishop Peers' presidential address, with him standing at a podium and also shown on a large television screen. Canadian Church Press is an association of more than 80 Canadian religious publications with a combined circulation of more than 2.4 million readers. Christian Week, an ecumenical newspaper published in Winnipeg, won CCP's national general excellence award, with an honorable mention in that category going to The Catholic Register. The United Church Observer The United Church Observer is a Canadian Methodist newspaper that was founded in 1829 as a weekly newspaper Christian Guardian, with Egerton Ryerson as the editor. It is currently a monthly publication, except for each year's combined July/August issue. won the A. C. Forrest Memorial Award for "socially conscious religion journalism." The A.C. Forrest award went to writers Donna Sinclair and John Bird for an article on northern forests. Crosstalk, the newspaper of the Anglican diocese of Ottawa, won an honorable mention for general excellence for a regional newspaper. |
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