Attending this year’s Utah chapter of the Society of Professional Journalism’s banquet at Frida Bistro was as gratifying as it was inspiring. We walked away with an ever-increasing respect for our peers in the publishing world and with a boatload of awards from Division B—15 in all—for CATALYST and its writers.
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1st place:
#1 Best magazine cover:
Polly Plummer Mottonen, Love Your Lungs. January 2014.
#1 Business/Consumer Reporting: Katherine Pioli, Utah’s Mountain Valley Seed Company: Traditional methods take root for a new generation. March 2014, p. 19.
#1 General feature:
Jim Taylor, Cosmic Airplane: A Love Story: One man’s memories of the rise and demise of a game-changing establishment in down town Salt Lake and the era that spawned it. July 2014, page 14.
#1 Education Reporting:
Katherine Pioli, A new kind of survival school: Luke McLaughlin’s gentle approach may reach a wider audience. October 2014, p. 20.
#1 Medical/Science Reporting:
Alice Toler, Your Brain on Altitude: Utah Brain Institute neuroscientists find promise in natural supplements for treating altitude-related depression and suicide risk. December 2014, p. 10.
#1 Personality Profile:
Sophie Silverstone, Talia Keys: Bringing down the house, rain or shine. June 2014, p. 19.
2nd place
Best newspaper:
CATALYST Magazine, 2014.
Business/Consumer Reporting:
Chris Gleason, Urban Farm and Feed: Murray Store Celebrates its first year in business. January 2014, p. 23.
Medical/Science Reporting:
Diane Olson, Get dirty, get happy: M. Vaccae, a bacteria commonly found in soil, is literally an antidepressant. April 2014, p. 18.
Personality profile:
Katherine Pioli, Ardean Watts: Porcini patriarch. May 2014, p. 17.
A&E:
Jennifer McGrew, Pilgrims and partiers: Removing the sting of class differences among Comic Con cosplayers. April 2014, p. 12.
3rd place
Opinion column:
Pax Rasmussen, Biting the culture I’ve come from and walking away in search of something new. September 2014, p. 13.
Series:
Marjorie McCloy, Air Quality series, October 2013-February 2014. Link to: February 2014 – Bills On the Hill | January 2014 – The Air Indoors | December 2013 – Air Activist: The Good-Air Citizen | November 2013 – Up To Snuff? | October 2013 – What Causes SLC’s Air Pollution-And Why You Should Care
Honorable mention
A&E:
Katherine Pioli, The Ebb and Flow of Jazz. November 2014, p. 11.
Magazine feature:
Alice Toler, Meth in a rhinestone dress: Remembering when the cocaine trade came and the island went to hell. November 2014, p. 19.
Congratulations all!
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