By Anthony BOTTAN
More than 1,000 entries were submitted in various categories.
The Heralds were given the awards for Best Homes Publication or Homes Special Section and Best Cover Design for their Oct. 19, 2006, special section, ³At Home.²
The Heralds also won the award for Best Signature Page or Signature Section for their Oct. 26, 2006, ³Halloween Safety Tips² section.
The awards reassured Jeff Negrin, production manager for the Art and Production departments, that the Heralds are making great strides. He added that the award-winning ³At Home² cover, which he designed, was simply an idea that occurred to him during a brainstorming session. ³All this stuff just comes to me ... it¹s what I do,² Negrin said.
Rhonda Glickman, Richner Communications¹ vice president of sales, who oversaw the creation of the award-winning entries, said it was a tremendous team effort and that the Herald advertising representatives deserved credit as well.
³The blend of creativity, sales and production teams offered all the right ingredients to make a great project,² Glickman said.
Karen Bloom edited the honored special section, and Nicole Kivirtzikis designed it.
This was the first SNA award the Heralds¹ sales department has received, and Glickman said it was exciting to be recognized nationwide. The ³At Home² special section also won statewide praise from the New York Press Association, winning the award for Best Special Section Cover in April.
The SNA hosts its contest to highlight the high quality of advertising and marketing in suburban newspapers. SNA¹s membership consists of more than 2,000 suburban newspapers from around the country, whose mission is ³to support the suburban and community newspaper industry through leadership, education, promotion, research and the advancement of high standards.²
The awards will be presented at SNA¹s Fall Publishers¹ and Advertising Directors¹ Conference.
