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March 7, 2007
Contact: Christina Boston
(662) 329-7119

MUW senior and graduate place in MPA 2006 Better Newspaper Contest
  
COLUMBUS, Miss. – A Mississippi University for Women student and August 2005 graduate recently placed in the 2006 Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Mississippi Press Association.
   
Lyn Brantley, a senior graphic design major from Clinton, received third place for Best Single Retail Ad Black & White.
   
Alumna Annie Ladner garnered first place awards for Best Automobile Ad and the Best Single Retail Ad Black & White. Ladner, who is originally from Picayune, earned a bachelor of fine arts with an emphasis in graphic design.
   
Brantley and Ladner are employed at The Commercial Dispatch.
   
The Mississippi Press Association Better Newspaper Contest is held each year to endorse and recognize excellence among Mississippi’s daily and weekly newspapers through competition. The context is divided into two divisions—editorial and advertising.
   
Founded in 1866, the Mississippi Press Association is a trade organization, which represents Mississippi daily and non-daily newspapers published at least once a week with general, paid circulation.