The Atlanta Press Club recognized the finest in journalism during an awards banquet Thursday, June 11, 2009. Seven awards were presented to journalists in print, television, radio, photojournalism, opinion in addition to an overall Journalist of the Year award. The APC would like to congratulate the following the JOY winners:

• Carrie Teegardin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution-Large Print Reporting
• Joe Rauch, Atlanta Business Chronicle-Small Print Reporting
• Richard Belcher, WSB-TV-Local News Reporting
• Wes Sarginson, WXIA-TV-Feature News Reporting
• Odette Yousef, Public Broadcasting Atlanta-Radio Reporting
• Joeff Davis, Creative Loafing-Photojournalism
• Maureen Downey, Atlanta Journal-Constitution -Opinion

The Atlanta Press Club's overall Journalist of the Year Award was awarded to Carrie Teegardin

For more information on the Atlanta Press Club visit their website: http://www.atlantapressclub.org/