{"id":8562,"date":"2013-02-13T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2013-02-13T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:27:20","slug":"meanwhile-the-minnesota-newspaper-assn-awarded-the-tiny-timberjay-multiple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8562","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile the Minnesota Newspaper Assn awarded the tiny Timberjay multiple&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; awards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timberjay.com\/stories\/Timberjay-receives-multiple-awards-in-newspaper-contest-,10787\">for reporting and editorials<\/a> all for doing what the DNT failed to do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BLOOMINGTON: \u00c2\u2014The Timberjay received awards for both reporting and editorials in the Minnesota Newspaper Association\u00c2\u2019s statewide newspaper contest held in  conjunction with the association\u00c2\u2019s convention in Bloomington. <\/p>\n<p>In competition <strong>against ALL Minnesota newspapers<\/strong>, <\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> the Timberjay took the top  award in the <strong>Freedom of Information<\/strong> category for its continuing reporting and  legal fight regarding Johnson Controls Inc. and its work for the St. Louis  County School District. <\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> The Timberjay also took second place for Best Explanation of News Operations  or Newspaper Ethics, for Marshall Helmberger\u00c2\u2019s opinion piece <strong>explaining why the  paper was continuing its legal battle with JCI<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> The Timberjay also took first place among weeklies over 2,500 circulation in  <strong>Best Investigative Reporting<\/strong>, for the story \u00c2\u201cNew school falls far short on  promised energy savings\u00c2\u201d by Timberjay editors Marshall Helmberger and Tom Klein.  The story compared the operational cost of ISD 2142\u00c2\u2019s new South Ridge School  with the former schools, Cotton and AlBrook, that the new school replaced. While  JCI, the company that designed and built the schools, claimed the new building  would be cheaper to operate than the schools it replaced, an examination of  utility bills found that the new building cost more to operate than both of the  former schools combined. <\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u201cThis is watchdog journalism at its best as the newspaper went back and  checked how well the school system did in delivering the savings it promised in  campaigning for a bond issue,\u00c2\u201d wrote the judges. \u00c2\u201cIt turns out the schools  didn&#8217;\u00c2\u2019t do all that well.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> The Timberjay also took third place in the Editorial Page as a Whole category  among weeklies with circulations of 2,501-5,000. <\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Timberjay editors Marshall Helmberger and Scott Stowell took third place in  the Local Breaking News Coverage category among weeklies of circulations between  2,501 and 5,000 for their combined coverage of the Pagami Creek fire. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This blog has <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=Timberjay\">highlighted<\/a> the Timberjay&#8217;s superlative journalistic exploits frequently since the Duluth Schools got suckered into spending half a billion dollars on a facilities plan which has forced the District to strip away much of its teacher corps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; awards for reporting and editorials all for doing what the DNT failed to do. 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