Biography
Virginia McCabe
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Ginny
McCabe, 48, is the talk show host of “The Zone” on Air America
Radio WTAA 1490 AM Atlantic City & Pleasantville, NJ. You can hear
her show Monday through Friday, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., Southern New Jersey's
only progressive talk radio program.
She
hosted News Talk WOND 1400 AM, featuring local, state and national issues
with a progressive perspective.
Ginny
is an award winning journalist and a news photographer credentialed in
New Jersey by the New Jersey Press Association, where she is an Associate
Member.
Journalism
Awards:
First
Amendment Award 2000 – New Jersey Press Association
First Place-"Police Education Controversy,"
First
Amendment Award 2000 – New Jersey Press Association
Third Place-"DWI Dismissals,"
Special
Subject Writing 2000 – New Jersey Press Association
First Place “Pig Farm”
Enterprise
Writing 2001-New Jersey Press Association
Second Place “Animals on the Auction Block”
Atlantic
City Press Club
Ginny is the past Secretary of the Atlantic City
Press Club 2001-2002, and she currently serves as the Media Representative
to the Atlantic County Highway Safety Task Force for Atlantic County Government.
Society
of Professional Journalists
Member of the Society of Professional Journalists
(2000 to Present) and served as the National Judge for the 2005-2006 Daily
Editorial Section.
National Editorial Judge 2006
Society of Professional Journalists
Ginny’s selection of “The Forgotten Hospital,”
written by the Editorial Staff of “The Oregonian” for the
1st Place Prize 2006 of the SPJ Editorial Section, was also awarded the
Pulitzer Prize in the spring of 2006.
Editor
in Chief 2001-Present
Ginny owned and served as the Editor in Chief
of the weekly print edition, “Atlantic Sentinel” and “Atlantic
County Sun” newspapers, Circ. 58,000 in Atlantic County and the
online edition of the “Atlantic Daily Sentinel.”
Here
Is New York
“Here is New York” featured Ginny’s
photographic work from the site of the World Trade Center in New York
five days after the towers fell. Her work featured the K-9 Dogs and their
Handlers, along with Firefighters, who were involved in the recovery work
at the World Trade Center. Her photographs were included in a special
exhibition at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and were published
in The Current, The Atlantic Daily Sentinel, The Boston Herald and the
Ann Arbor News.
Her independent crime and accident scene photography has been published
in the Press of Atlantic City.
Political
Columnist
Ginny writes local and national political commentary
and humor columns.
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