Andrea Joyce Spruill
Published 12:50 pm Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Andrea Joyce Spruill, 64, of Kinston and formerly of Roper, died Saturday, March 23, 2013, at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at Maitland Funeral Home, which is in charge of arrangements. Burial will follow in Holly Neck Church of Christ Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. at the funeral home.
About Mike Voss
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Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.
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