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Reservist named best DOD print journalist

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Tech. Sgt. Shawn Jones, a reservist in the 514th Air Mobility Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., is the top print journalist in the Department of Defense.

Jones learned on April 19 that he was among the 2011 Thomas Jefferson Award winners. The competition is the premiere Department of Defense awards program for print and broadcast journalism. Winners represent the elite communicators in DOD.

The Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Md., will provide plaques and certificates of achievement for individual and unit awards. Jones will receive his award at the DOD Communicators of Excellence Award Ceremony at the school May 4.

In addition to serving in the 514th AMW as a reservist, Jones is the civilian editor of the wing's Freedom Flyer magazine. Four of his five award-winning articles appeared in the magazine, which was named the best printed publication in Air Force Reserve Command.

See related links for the award-winning stories.

USAF. (U.S. Air Force Graphic by Rosario "Charo" Gutierrez)