OLD Media News

Daily Herald’s Erd receives two awards at national contest

Amanda Erd

Amanda Erd, a multiplatform copy editor at the Daily Herald won two awards in an annual competition sponsored by the National Federation of Press Women.

Erd, who has been with the Daily Herald for 5 years won the first-place award in the infographics category, and an honorable mention in the page design category, for work done in 2019.

She qualified for the national contest by winning both categories in the Illinois Women’s Press Association contest in the spring.

Previously, Erd was a patient service representative at Cadence Health and was also a student worker at Saluki Media Services.

Additionally, she has also worked as a staff writer and managing editor at The Observer.

Erd is a B.S. in journalism from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Mariam Ahmed

Recent Posts

Qwoted 100 PR Superstar: Wendy Taliaferro of The Hoffman Agency

While many (including this editor) have written paragraph after paragraph in the "About" sections of…

12 mins ago

Bloomberg, AppliedXL launch AI-powered biotech news feed

Bloomberg News and AppliedXl have launched an artificial intelligence-powered real-time news feed covering biotech for…

1 hour ago

Crain’s Chicago seeks an AME of news

Crain's Chicago Business is a leading source of news, analysis, and information on the business,…

13 hours ago

FT’s Agenda hires Sandler as associate editor

Emma Sandler has been hired as associate editor at Agenda, a publication under the FT…

17 hours ago

Claman of Fox Biz inducted into Cable Hall of Fame

Cablefax Daily interviewed Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman on her induction into the Cable Hall…

19 hours ago

BBC News hires Edwards as money, work and tech reporter

BBC News has hired Charlotte Edwards as a reporter covering money, work and technology. She previously was…

20 hours ago