Clifton Barnes won the awards, presented by DC area-based Communications Concepts through its 2009 Awards for Publication Excellence competition, for articles he wrote for the American Bar Association’s Bar Leader magazine and UNC’s Carolina Alumni Review magazine.

Of the Carolina Alumni Review article, one judge wrote, "A moving and interesting father-son profile, this feature article pulls readers in and keeps them involved until the end. An excellent example of the storyteller's art."

Barnes, who has now won more than 70 journalism awards, served as director of communications for the N.C. Bar Association from 1987 to 2002 and, before that, was a newspaper writer and editor. He served as sports editor of the Daily Tar Heel while in college. Click here for more.

Clifton Barnes

Heel Prints (www.cb3media.com/heelprints) has won a national award for Web Content & Writing presented by the DC area-based Communications Concepts through its 2008 Awards for Publication Excellence contest.

Clifton Barnes, the catalyst behind the site, also picked up an APEX award of excellence in the News Writing category.

The Heel Prints Web site reviews and analyzes games played by the University of North Carolina basketball, baseball and football teams. Barnes, who was sports editor of the Daily Tar Heel school newspaper, has covered or followed the teams closely for 30 years.

Judges said of the Web site, "Interesting copy, written in an appealing personal voice, and using lively imagery to place the reader there. You really can't ask for much more in sports reporting.” Click here for more.