Awards

Writer's Digest - 101 Best Websites for WritersI’m sort of competitive and like to win prizes. Here are my favorites:

Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Blogs for Writers – 2014, 2015.

Top 10 Blogs for Writers — 2010, 2012, 2013.

Alaska Airlines magazine: Market Makers (pg 67, Feb. 2014) – 3rd place Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) award; 2012 1st place SPJ award for Horizon Airlines edition story, “Ready for Retirement.”

Seattle Magazine: Talking Trash (December 2007) – 1st place SPJ award; Is There a Road to Justice? (February, 2007)- 1st place SPJ award, and a MADD Media Award; No Place Like Home – 1st place SPJ award, May 2006.

Puget Sound Business Journal (August 2004), Generous Compensation for Execs Draws Scrutiny – 2005 national Society of Business Editors and Writers ‘Best in Business’ award.

While at PSBJ, recipient of a 2001 American Eagle award for overall achievement from parent company American City Business Journals, a 40-paper chain. Also recipient of six SPJ Awards for PSBJ articles from 2001-2005.

Recipient of the 1997 Godfrey M. Lebhar Article of the Year award from Lebhar-Friedman, parent company of National Home Center News.