VDT fourth in class in newspaper AP Georgia awards,
half for people who don’t work there anymore.

VDT today,

Times wins AP awards; I’ve added some links and notes in [square brackets]:

The Valdosta Daily Times won several awards at the recent Georgia
Associated Press Managing Editors Newspaper Awards luncheon in
Atlanta.

Former Times’ reporter Jason Schaefer received a First Place in
Deadline Reporting award for his story on homeless individuals in
2012.
[“Life on Hard Ground”, which apparently is not online,
but

apparently was published on paper 3 December 2012.]

Former news photographer Paul Leavy won a Third Place Award in
Photography for his photo of a meth lab arrest at a local motel.
[For

Tip leads to meth lab raid 27 January 2012,
by another former reporter, David Rodock.]

This is the first admission I’ve seen that Jason Schaefer doesn’t
work there anymore, even though his byline hasn’t appeared since
his last story on homeless people, 3 July 2013.

Kay Harris also won two awards,
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