Guardian wins four awards

Pub date June 8, 2009
WriterTim Redmond
SectionPolitics Blog

Three Bay Guardian stories won awards from the Peninsula Press Club, it was announced June 6. The paper’s staff was also honored for general excellence.

“Dirty secrets under the big top,” an investigation into the Ringling Brothers circus by Steven T. Jones, won first place in the Business Story category. Jones was also honored with a second-place award for analysis for his story on the anti-war movement, “Resistance is futile — or is it?.”

The award for Best Editorial in the non-daily category went to Tim Redmond for a piece calling for an economic locavore policy.

The Guardian won third place in the General Excellence category for non-daily papers.