Tennessee

TAPB-TAPME awards presentation set for Saturday, June 16, in Nashville

Make plans now to attend the Tennessee AP Broadcasters and Tennessee AP Managing Editors annual awards presentation and banquet Saturday, June 16, in Nashville to honor the top television, radio and print journalism in the state during 2011.

The event starts with a reception at 5:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Nashville Downtown hotel.

The deadline to register for the banquet is Thursday, June 7.

To print a banquet registration form, please click here. The fee for individual tickets is $50; for a table of eight, the fee is $400. The fee for college students is $20.00 per ticket. If you are paying via PayPal, the fees are $52.00, $412.00 and $22.00. See the links below.

The organizations have reserved a block of rooms at the rate of $142.00 per night at the Sheraton Downtown Nashville. The deadline for reserving a hotel room at the group rate is June 7. After that, we cannot guarantee the discount rate will be available.

Reservations can be made by calling 800-447-9825 (be sure to tell them you with the Tennessee AP Broadcasters or Tennessee AP Managing Editors group) or by going online:

https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/associatedpress.

To view the list of TAPB finalists, please click here.

To view the partial list of TAPME finalists, please click here.

To pay via PayPal, please click below.

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PHOTO OF THE MONTH

November 2011 Photo of the Month

J. Miles Cary of the News Sentinel is the winner of the November Tennessee member photo contribution of the month for his picture showing Bobby Snodderly, 77, of Jacksboro, Tenn., watching over his family's shopping bags at a mall in Knoxville, Tenn., on Black Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Snodderly and his family began their Christmas shopping at midnight.

October 2011 Photo of the Month

John Partipilo of The Tennessean is the winner of the October Tennessee member photo contribution of the month for the picture showing Tennessee State Troopers arresting Occupy Nashville protestors in the early morning hours on the Legislative Plaza in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 28, 2011.


September 2011 Photo of the Month

Jenna Walker of the Chattanooga Times Free Press is the winner of the September Tennessee member photo contribution of the month for the picture showing Flash leaping over Lawrence Frederick's back to catch a disc during the 2011 Hyperflite Skyhoundz World Canine Disc Championship Saturday, in Chattanooga, Tenn.

August 2011 Photo of the Month

George Walker IV of The Tennessean is the winner of the August Tennessee member photo contribution of the month for his picture of Tennessee Titans rookie wide receiver Joseph Hills being doused with water after being tied to a goal post following the final training camp practice Aug. 22, 2011 in Nashville, Tenn. Rookies regularly endure pranks on the final day of training camp.

July 2011 Photo of the Month

Dan Henry of the Chattanooga Times Free Press is the winner of the Photo of the Month for July 2011. His photo shows Deshawn Freeman, center, as he shares his bicycle with relatives, from left, De'Asia Freeman, Qunyshia Johnson, Ranyshia Johnson, Tasia Scruggs and De'Shayla Green, outside of his Avondale residence in Chattanooga, Tenn. Wednesday. July 13, 2011.

June 2011 Photo of the Month

Aaron Hardin of The Jackson Sun is the winner of the Photo of the Month for June 2011. In a June 25, 2011 photo, Reed Mitchell, 10, cleans his father Troy Mitchell's headstone at the Mitchell home on June 25, 2011. Troy Mitchell was killed in 2009. An inmate, Ameale Hudson, was released from the Madison County jail on Oct. 8, 2009, into the community supervision program. Police said he bought the gun used to kill Troy Mitchell the next day.

Henry and Hardin will each receive $100 for their contributions and their photos will be entered into the Photo of the Year contest. Each month the AP selects a Photo of the Month for the best member-submitted news photo shared in cycle.

All photos shot by staff photographers or reporters of AP member newspapers in Tennessee and shared during the same publication cycle in which they were shot are eligible.

For information about the Photo of the Month or contributing photos to the AP, contact Mark Humphrey in Nashville at 615-373-9988 or 800-453-1282 or via e-mail at mhumphrey@ap.org.