Here are WMOT’s winning entries in the Associated Press statewide news contest for 2016:
· First Place – Best Writing: Rhiannon Gilbert, "5 Spot's Motown Mondays: Everyone Wants to Be Here"
· First Place - Light Feature: Mike Osborne, "Giving til it Hurts: Troy Snell, Animal Rescuer"
· Second Place – Best Writing: Stephen Leon Alligood, "Middle Tennessee's Mower Drivin' Man"
· Honorable Mention – Serious News: Mike Osborne, "Tenn. Overdose Epidemic: People Often View Addiction as a Moral Failure."
· Honorable Mention – Light Feature: Rhiannon Gilbert, "5 Spot's Motown Mondays: Everyone Wants to be Here."
· Honorable Mention – Best Writing: Mike Osborne, "Tenn. Overdose Epidemic: People Often View Addiction as a Moral Failure."
· Honorable Mention - Best Use of Sound: Mike Osborne, WMOT, Murfreesboro, "Giving til it Hurts: Homeless Advocate Jason Bennett."