Sedalia Democrat journalists received eight first place honors and 23 awards in total in the 2011 Missouri Press Foundation Better Newspaper Contest.
Results of the contest, which covered content created in 2010, were released Saturday during an awards luncheon as part of the Missouri Press Association’s 145th annual convention, held in Branson.
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