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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Commercial Appeal of Memphis was a big winner Saturday in the annual journalism competition sponsored by the Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors.

For newspapers with more than 40,000 daily circulation, The Commercial Appeal won seven first-place awards: features reporting; sports/outdoors reporting; business news; feature photography; sports photography; photo journalism; and individual achievement/body of work in photography.

Additionally, the paper's Marc Perrusquia won the Malcolm Law Investigative Reporting award. Perrusquia won for a story "culture of corruption."

The award was established to honor Malcolm Law, associate editor of The Jackson Sun, who died in December 1972. The award pays tribute to the dedication of Law to the concept of The Associated Press as a news cooperative.

The Tennessean of Nashville was awarded first place for Web site and sports photography.

Rounding out the divisional first-place winners, the Knoxville News Sentinel won for daily deadline reporting, and the Chattanooga Times Free Press won for spot news photography.

For newspapers with daily circulation between 10,000 and 40,000, The Jackson Sun won five first-place awards: deadline reporting; feature reporting; sports-outdoors reporting; best Web site; and photo journalism.

Additionally, Tonya Smith-King of Jackson won the Malcolm Law Investigative Reporting award for a story on Mary Winkler.

In the same division, The Daily News Journal of Murfreesboro won for spot news photography, feature photography. The Daily News Journal's Aaron Thompson won for individual achievement/body of work in photography.

Other first-place winners in the division were The Daily Herald of Columbia for business news, and The Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville for sports photography.

For newspapers with less than 10,000 circulation daily, The Mountain Press of Sevierville won four first-place honors: feature reporting; business news; feature photography; and individual achievement/body of work in photography (Curt Habraken).

The Shelbyville Times-Gazette won first place for spot news photography and photo journalism. The Union City Daily Messenger won for sports/outdoor reporting and sports photography. The Lebanon Democrat won for daily deadline reporting.

Brian Mosely of the Shelbyville Times-Gazette won the Malcolm Law Investigative Reporting honor for his work on Somalis in Shelbyville.

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