Several 2024 award recipients received their awards in person at the 2024 Senior Leadership Conference. Pictured here (left to right) are Dion Lefler, opinion editor of the The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kansas; Nedra Rhone, lifestyle columnist, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia; Lissa Walls Cribb, CEO of Southern Newspapers, who presented the awards, which are named in memory of her father; and Greg Weatherbee, publisher of The Lufkin Daily News, Lufkin, Texas.
