Times staff members honored by Iowa newspaper associations

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By Times staff | Saturday, February 9, 2008 1:12 AM CST | () comments

DES MOINES — Quad-City Times staffers Bill Wundram, Terry Wilson and Eric Page received key honors Friday at the Iowa Newspaper Association’s annual convention.

Wundram and Wilson received the INA’s Distinguished Service Award recognizing their work in the newspaper business and the community. Only four such awards were given this year, and another one of the recipients was North Scott Press Publisher Bill Tubbs of Eldridge.

Page, a sportswriter, was one of three recipients of the Genevieve Mauck Stoufer Outstanding Young Iowa Journalists Award.

Wundram, who will mark 64 years at the Times next month, has held numerous newsroom positions including reporter, photographer, city editor, features-Sunday editor and book author. He is associate editor at the newspaper and also editor of the monthly On the River publication.

His column is a fixture on page A2 of the Times, and an annual column writing contest for Iowa journalists carries his name.

Wilson, community relations and specialty publications director, began working at the Times in May 1985. He was recently elected to the INA board and is active in numerous community organizations.

Page, who joined the Times in 2006, covers University of Iowa sports and is a major contributor to the Times’ Hawkmania.com Web site. The Wisconsin native “is a leader by example in the use of alternate story forms and online journalism,” said Don Doxsie, assistant managing editor/sports, in his nomination of Page for the honor.

Times staffers also were honored for their accomplishments in journalism and advertising in contest results announced Friday by both the INA and the Iowa Associated Press Managing Editors.

In the Iowa APME contest, page designer Francie Williamson took first place in wire presentation, and photographer Jeff Cook won a first-place award in the sports feature category.

Staff writer Ann McGlynn took first-place honors in the news feature category for INA. Times advertisements in the furniture and grocery categories also took first-place awards.

Other Times staffers honored Friday by the Iowa APME included:

John Schultz, second place in sports action photo.

Deirdre Cox Baker, second place in interpretive series.

Ann McGlynn, second place in general features.

Jeff Cook, third place in picture story.

Tom Saul, third place in investigative reporting for his look at bridge safety.

Barb Ickes and Jeff Cook, third place in continuing news coverage for their coverage of Army recruit Hailey Shappard.

David Burke and Katie Vaughn, third place for interpretive series for “Learn to Like.”

Ed Tibbetts, third place in general features.

Craig DeVrieze, third place in sports spot news.

Eric Page, Steve Batterson, Aaron Weibel, Rick Rector and Jim Gale, third place in online special package for “Hawkmania.”

Other INA awards included:

Ann McGlynn, second place for best personal feature.

Don Doxsie, second place for best sports columnists.

Eric Tucker, second place for best ad designer.

Second place for best sports pages.

Second place for coverage of business.

Third place for best ad featuring promotion of the newspaper.

Third place for best advertising series featuring any service.

The Bettendorf News, a weekly newspaper published by the Times, took a first place for best advertising featuring a grocery, and third place in the community service category for stories on teenage drinking written by David Heitz.