Baltimore ad director Davis wins CPA's St. Francis de Sales Award

Published: 2008-05-30

TORONTO (CNS) -- Chic Richards Davis, advertising director for The Catholic Review, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and for the Cathedral Foundation, was named the winner of the 2008 St. Francis de Sales Award by the Catholic Press Association. The award, commonly called the "Franny," is considered the highest honor given in the Catholic press. The winner was announced at a May 30 luncheon during the Catholic Media Convention in Toronto. "I feel many emotions at this moment," Davis said upon being named the recipient. Two emotions, he said, were feeling "rather undeserving" and "extremely grateful." Davis related advice from his father, who said: "Son, whatever you do in life, do it like you mean it." In the Catholic press, Davis said, "we have to do what we do like we mean it." Finalists for the St. Francis de Sales Award were Regina Armstrong, a proofreader for The Florida Catholic, which covers six of the state's seven dioceses, and Pam Payne, associate editor of the Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Diocese of Madison, Wis.

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