PEF’s communications efforts earn national, regional honors
PEF’s public relations efforts and magazine, The Communicator, earned some high marks from judges in both a regional and a national competition for labor journalists and communicators this year.
PEF’s efforts garnered seven awards in the national competition held by the American Federation of Teachers Communications Association, which covered work produced April 2003 through March 2004. And the Metro New York Labor Communications Association presented PEF two awards for work produced in 2003.
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.Both PEF’s “Corporate Tax Fairness” and its “Cut State Waste, Not State Workers” campaigns took first-place awards in the AFTCA competition.
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“Excellent job” was the verdict on the campaign to Cut State Waste. And the judges called the Corporate Tax Fairness campaign, “Very impressive; Wonderful! Very effective and well done to appeal not just to members, but to resonate with the general public.” The campaigns were written and designed by PEF Public Relations Director Denyce Duncan Lacy, Staff Director Stephen Chamberlain and Graphic Designer
Mario A. Bruni.
The AFTCA judges also gave first place to the cover, created by Bruni, of the
July-August
2003 issue of The Communicator which featured a baseball flying out of the ballpark.
And the judges gave first place for Best Column to a Nurses’ Station article by Katrina Howard, “Don’t be bullied by false threats,” which appeared in the December ’03-January ’04 issue.
PEF’s 25th Anniversary Convention video, written and produced by Lacy, earned second place from AFTCA judges in the Electronic Media competition. “Well done,” said the judges, who added they “like the balance of including past leadership. It’s great to see a younger union conscious of its history.”
The Communicator won AFTCA’s third-place awards for Best Editorial for PEF President Roger Benson’s November 2003 message titled “Let’s Show Bush the Door in 2004,” and in the Best News Story category for a May 2003 article by Lacy on the proposed privatization of SUNY hospitals.
The Metro NY Labor Communications Council gave third place honors for Best News Writing to an article in the November 2003 issue of The Communicator titled “Contractor’s faulty design caused fatal bridge collapse.” And a second article in that issue, titled “How to stop privatization dead in its tracks” won honorable mention for Best Feature Writing. Both stories were by PEF editor Sherry Halbrook.
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Communicator September 04
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