City & Shore Magazine has won first place in the niche media category of the national Society for Features Journalism competition (featuresjournalism.org). The award was presented at the University of Maryland in August. The full list of winners in the competition appear below – we congratulate all of them, and we are honored to be in their company.

City & Shore also won three awards in June at the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) “Sunshine State Awards.” Art Director/Designer Anderson Greene won first place for a collection of his work in the magazine Cover category; and second place in the Inside Design categories; and Editor & Publisher Mark Gauert won first place for his Here & Now column in the Commentary & Criticism category. We are honored to be included in a field of competitors that included Boca Raton Magazine, The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post and other media throughout the state.

The Society for Features Journalism winners:

Division 3

First:  LA , Los Angeles Times

Second:  Bay Magazine, Tampa Bay Times

Third:  Civil War,  The Washington Post

Honorable mention:  Trib, The Chicago Tribune

Honorable mention:  Fanfare, Newsday

Division 2

First:   City & Shore Magazine, The Sun Sentinel

Second:  “b”, The Baltimore Sun

Third:  Glossy, Austin American-Statesman

Honorable mention:  Indulge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Honorable mention:  Wedding Essentials, Omaha World-Herald

Division 1

First:  Grandeur, Fort Myers News-Press

Second:  Northeast Columbia/Lake Murray Columbia, The State

Third:  Elite, The Fayetteville Observer