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City of Edina • 4801 W. 50th St. • Edina, MN 55424
Contact: Jennifer Bennerotte
Communications & Technology Services Director
Phone 952-833-9520 • Fax 952-826-0389 • www.EdinaMN.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
City receives ‘Blue Pencil’ Award
Edina, Minn., June 8, 2011 –The National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) recently
announced that City of Edina’s employee newsletter received a Blue Pencil Award in the 2012 national
competition.
The awards were announced June 7 during a ceremony at NAGC’s annual conference in Washington, DC.
In the “internal newsletter” category, City Slick received a first-place Blue Pencil Award. The U.S. Navy’s
Military Sealift Command placed second. In the “media event” category, Halloween 16 received a third-place
Award of Excellence. The Department of Labor (DOL) placed first in the media event category for its DOL
Hall of Fame Event and the U.S. Census Bureau placed second for its 2010 Census Center of Population.
City Slick was redesigned in 2011. “We are proud that our newly redesigned employee newsletter has received
such high praise from the National Association of Government Communications,” said Jennifer Bennerotte,
Communications & Technology Services Director. “Employee communications are important to keeping up
morale and camaraderie in the workplace. Our department is constantly working to add new features to the
publication to keep it interesting and informative for our co-workers.”
To attract more viewers to the local government access channel, on Oct. 31, 2011, the Communications &
Technology Services Department played more than 16 hours of classic Halloween films on Edina Community
Channel 16 (EDINA 16). Between movies, interstitial programming about the regular EDINA 16 line-up was
aired. The one-day movie event was dubbed “Halloween 16.”
For more information the projects of the Communications & Technology Services Department, call 952-826-
0359 or visit www.EdinaMN.gov/Communications.
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