Magazine Feature Writing: Sun Valley Magazine – “Endangered Art”
“ENDANGERED ART” The ancient sport of falconry and how it has changed – and stayed the same – over the centuries. (Please click on photo to go to article).
Agency News: Patti Murphy wins IMPACT Excellence Award for feature writing
My feature article, “Memories of Minidoka,” which I wrote for Sun Valley Magazine (www.sunvalleymag.com/Sun-Valley-Magazine/Winter-2010/Memories-of-Minidoka/), received the Excellence Award from Capital City Communicators in the 2010 IMPACT competition. The article chronicled the weekend that several Japanese Americans returned to the Minidoka Internment Camp, where they had been imprisoned during World War II. It told the story of their feelings and memories at returning to the camp and how old and new friendships were kindled.
The IMPACT (Idaho Marketing, PR and Communications Talent) Awards recognize the top work of Idaho’s communicators in a variety of categories, ranging from public relations and marketing, to websites and video scripts. “Minidoka” received the highest award in the Feature Writing category.
Newspaper Feature Writing: “Us Against Phlegm” – Boise Weekly Newspaper
In “Us Against Phlegm” I take a humorous look at the problem of public spitting by men.
http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/us-against-phlegm/Content?oid=933507
Agency News: Patti Murphy’s writing wins first place award from Idaho Press Club
It was an honor to hear my name called out as first place winner in magazine writing, serious feature category at the 2009 Idaho Press Club Awards. One reason I was so pleased was because I received the award for my story, “Memories of Minidoka – Revisiting Idaho’s Japanese Interment Camp,” which I had written for Sun Valley Magazine (you can read it online at www.sunvalleymag.com/Sun-Valley-Magazine/Winter-2010/Memories-of-Minidoka/). For me, writing that story was an amazing experience. I spent a whole weekend with many of the Japanese-Americans who had been interned at the Minidoka Camp during WWI. Many of them were in their 70s and 80s. Together we went on a pilgrimage back to the historical site of the former camp, where they recalled memories of living behind barbed wire and guards with machine guns, how they were forced to live in near squalor, how their families lost everything they owned, and how they had long ago forgiven those who had wrongly imprisoned them. The pilgrimage is organized every summer by the Friends of Minidoka (www.minidoka.org). It was a moving, emotional and important experience and for anyone interested in this part of history, I would encourage you to be a part of this summer’s pilgrimage, June 25-27.
This was the seventh Idaho Press Club Award I have won over the past few years. All of them mean a lot, as they acknowledge the quality of my work. But for me, seeing the story of Minidoka recognized was very special.
Agency News: Patti Murphy interviewed by E! Entertainment Network about murder trial
The producers of the E! Entertainment Network show “Too Young To Kill” made a trip to Idaho to interview Patti Murphy about the Sarah Johnson murder trial. Sarah Johnson was 15 years old living in Bellevue, Idaho when she took a high powered hunting rifle and murdered her mother and father because they objected to her dating an older man. Murphy had provided daily newspaper coverage of the 6-week trial in 2005 as a freelance reporter for the Twin Falls Times-News, working alongside national reporters from Court TV, 20/20, and Dateline NBC. Her reporting was picked up nationally by the Associated Press, and it won a first place award of excellence from the Idaho Press Club. She previously has been interviewed about the trial by other national network shows on the Discovery Channel and the Oxygen Channel.
Agency News: Murphy receives 2 Idaho Press Club Excellence Awards
Murphy Media Services owner Patti Murphy received two Excellence Awards from the Idaho Press Club on May 2 in recognition of her freelance writing and her media campaign and public relations work on behalf of her client.
Murphy received an award for the Media Campaign she developed for the National Diving Dog Tour sponsored by Oust and Purina. Murphy partnered with FusionSet, Inc., another Boise, Idaho marketing agency, on the program which was designed to gain media and community awareness of a nationwide traveling Diving Dog competition during the Summer of 2008.
Murphy also received an award in the category Magazine Writing-Light Feature, for her article, “The Elegant Barn,” which she wrote for Sun Valley Home Magazine. The judge, commenting on Murphy’s article, wrote, “The opening of this story set up the rest of it beautifully, not an easy feat to accomplish when writing about anonymous owners.”
Previously, Murphy won the 2005 First Place award for Crime and Courts Reporting for Weekly Newspapers for her reporting on a double murder trial. In 2004 she won a Second Place award for Media Campaigns; a Second Place award for Script Writing; and Third Place for News Release Writing. To see a complete list of 2008 award winners, visit the Idaho Press Club.
AGENCY NEWS: EDDIES and OZZIES and Awards, Oh My!
The May, 2008 issue of Sun Valley Magazine, which carries two of Patti’s articles on falconry, just won TWO of FOLIO Magazine’s prestigious awards − the EDDIE Award, which recognizes editorial excellence, and the OZZIE Award for best use of photography. The publication won Bronze in each of those categories and competed against other national magazine with circulations of up to 250,000. As an award winner, Sun Valley Magazine now shares the company of such giants as Bon Appetite, Billboard, Travel & Leisure, Architectural Record, Harper’s Bazaar, National Geographic, Forbes, INC, Time, Fortune, SELF, and other respected publications that have also been honored with this coveted industry award.
According to FOLIO, this year’s competition drew more than 2,800 entries, and more than 100 expert judges spent weeks evaluating the entries and selecting the winners.