CARROLLTON, TX –Dominion Parenting Media (DPM), a division of Dominion Enterprises, and publishers of eight monthly parenting magazines and Web sites in major cities nationwide, has received 14 awards in the Parenting Publications of America (PPA) 2010 Editorial and Design Awards Competition, including 8 gold awards for excellence.

These honors, recognizing work done in 2009, continue a long run of awards for editorial and design excellence won by DPM publications every year. PPA presented the latest awards on March 6, 2010, during its Annual Convention in Charlotte, NC.

PPA’s Editorial and Design Awards Competition recognizes excellence in journalism, photography and design by publishers, editors, writers and designers at its member publications. Prof. Daryl Moen of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism oversees a panel of judges who review editorial and design entries in the competition each year. This year, the panel reviewed 1,026 entries to choose 408 winners in various editorial and design categories from publications in small, medium and large circulation categories.

“The purpose of the PPA awards competition is to encourage a high level of journalistic performance and service to communities by recognizing editorial excellence and outstanding visual presentation in parenting publications,” said PPA Executive Director C. James Dowden.

“We are extremely proud of these prestigious awards,” said Gary Hibert, Vice President of DPM. “Each one defines the talent and effort applied in our local offices of regional parenting publications. Each office works diligently to create superior publications and digital products robust with useful parenting information that is helpful to the daily lives of today’s ‘power moms.’ These awards give credence to those efforts.”

Among the 14 awards to DPM publications this year:

Design Categories

Gold
• Calendar Section – Colorado Parent
• Ancillary Cover – B.A.B.Y. (Fall 2009; published by Bay Area Parent – San Francisco and East Bay editions
• Ancillary Overall Design – Colorado Expecting (published by Colorado Parent)

Silver
• Table of Contents – Westchester Family (NY)

Editorial Categories

Gold
• Publisher/Editor’s Note – Bay Area Parent – San Francisco and East Bay editions
• Calendar of Events – Colorado Parent
• Column: Family Matters – Boston Parents Paper (for its “5 Questions” columns)
• Column: Family Fun – Bay Area Parent – San Francisco and East Bay editions (for its “Family Travel” columns)
• Interview – Bay Area Parent – San Francisco and East Bay editions (for “Are You a Bad Mother?” – an interview with Ayelet Waldman)
• News Feature – Bay Area Parent (for “Free to Be Me,” a feature on gender-variant children, which the judges described as a “courageous article … with careful and humanizing reporting”)
• Ancillary Feature Writing – 2009 Education and Enrichment Guide (published by Bay Area Parent – Silicon Valley edition)

Silver
• Column: Humor – Boston Parents Paper (for its “A Household Word” columns)
• Calendar Section – Westchester Family

Bronze
• Interview – Boston Parents Paper (for a feature on “Super Parenting for Kids with ADD)


Headquartered in Los Angeles, PPA is a nonprofit national organization representing more than 110 parenting magazines and newspapers in the United States, Canada and Australia. For more information about PPA, visit www.parentingpublications.org.

Dominion Parenting Media is a division of Dominion Enterprises, Inc., headquartered in Carrollton, TX. DPM is the publisher of Bay Area Parent (3 editions in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley areas); Boston Parents Paper, LA Parent, Colorado Parent, Westchester Family (NY) and Our Kids San Antonio. The division also publishes Web sites in each local magazine’s market and a national Web site, Parenthood.com, and operates a national parenting and children’s products awards competition, the National Parenting Publications Awards.