The Birmingham Times Brings Home 12 Awards in Statewide Press Contest

The Birmingham Times The Birmingham Times Media Group won 12 awards in the 2024 Alabama Press Association (APA) Media Awards, 6 for first place including Best Local Education Coverage, Best Local News Coverage and Best Business Story. This year, 56 publications submitted 1,770 entries in the annual contest. The Hoosier State Press Association membership judged the entries. First place awards were presented Saturday in conjunction with the 2024 APA Summer Convention banquet held at the Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach. In addition to top awards in the local education and news categories, the Times won first place for Best Use of Photographs/Editorial Content; Best Photo Essay; and Best Special Section-Newsprint for Black History from Science to Sports. The Times also won 5 second place awards and a third for General Excellence. “I am so proud of the product we deliver to this community each week and it is nice when others recognize the work that we do,” said Samuel P. Martin, president and publisher of the BTMG. The first place for Best Business Story went to Ryan Michaels for his report on Birmingham businessman Shegun Otulana and the second-place award for Best Feature went to Javacia Harris Bowser for...