Whatcom Watch Wins Press Award

Jennifer Karchmer, current editor of Whatcom Watch, received three Communicator of Excellence awards recognizing her reporting from Vancouver, B.C. of the 2010 Winter Olympics. She won First Place for Social Issues & Minority Affairs (Non-Daily Publication) with her story “Not All Fun and Games: The Hidden Costs of the Olympics,” which appeared in the March 2010 edition of Whatcom Watch. The other two awards recognize her reporting and photo illustration she self-published as a freelance journalist at www.jenniferkarchmer.com.