Times Garners 6 Awards From Journalism Society

The Los Angeles Times won six top awards in the annual competition held by Sigma Delta Chi’s San Diego Society of Professional Journalists.

Times reporters Glenn F. Bunting and Ralph Frammolino won the top community service award for their series on ticket-fixing and favors by police administrators.

Photographers Vince Compagnone and Barbara Martin won for best sports photography and best photo essay, respectively, and Times artist Steve Lopez won for an original illustration.

The Times also picked up top awards for editorial writing by Martin Hill and criticism by T.K. Arnold.

The San Diego Union won eight top awards for newspapers with a circulation of more than 100,000, and The Tribune took four.

Those awards were:

Spot news reporting: Kristine Moe, San Diego Union; feature writing: Mark Sauer, San Diego Union; financial writing: Susan Burkhardt, San Diego Union; sports reporting: Tom Cushman, The Tribune; investigative/enterprise reporting: A. Dahleen Glanton, San Diego Union; column writing: Michael Kinsman, The Tribune.

Also, news photography: Jim Baird, San Diego Union; feature photography: Michael Franklin, The Tribune; editorial cartoon: Steve Kelley, San Diego Union; news headline: Dave Feldman, San Diego Union; feature headline: James Schellhammer and E. Ciechanowski, San Diego Union; feature makeup: Antonia Allegra and Kris Lindblad, The Tribune.