I’ll take just a minute to brag here. My long takeout article on Columbia’s student housing boom and the tax credit that supporters say fueled it won first place from the S.C. Press Association’s annual contest in the Business Reporting category.
It was a ripe idea to take the student housing issue and broaden the story to ask whether the tax code was discouraging a lot of development in the city. My colleagues at the Business Report did a good job editing and displaying the piece.
Don’t believe me? Look for yourself here:
I can’t look at any journalism contest without thinking of the wisdom of the great columnist Dave Barry, who warned that many journalism contest entries should be labeled: “Warning! Journalism Contest Entry! Do Not Read!” I think we were a little more readable than that.