Congrats, NewsDawgs!

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NewsHounds Get Cyber‘ink’

Congrats to Ravening NewsHounds Courtney Schoen, April Larsen, Satenik Sargysan and Storee Powell, whose in-depth stories were published yesterday by the Hard News Café and the Statesman.

• Courtney’s story is a profile of her 90-year-old great-grandmother, Sybil T. Goodey (“An Oldie But a Goodey”), who was born and raised and has lived all her life on the same patch of ground in Clarkston.

• April’s story about Logan restaurants illustrates what we’ve discussed about taking a big national issue (economy) and giving it a local focus.

• Satenik’s story about the struggles of gay and lesbian students also plays off a recent news event—Prop 8—to explore on a challenging social issue and give it a local face.

• Storee profiles Al Lewis, the “voice of the Aggies,” an icon for generations of local sports fans.

I have a BIG (Dawg)PILE of all your stories to read on the plane to Ohio, and fully expect others to make it into (cyber)print. Once published in this or dead-tree form, by the way, your stories are eligible to be entered in the annual Region 9 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence competition in January. Fame! Glory! Attractive certificates!!

I’m proud of you guys.

El Peez