Media, Law & Policy

Magazine Professor Jim Shahin’s ‘Smoke Signals’ Column Recognized in Two Writing Competitions

Monday, October 16, 2017, By Wendy S. Loughlin

It’s double kudos for , associate professor of at the .

Jim Shahin

Jim Shahin

Shahin placed second in the Best Food Column category of the for “” The piece was part of Shahin’s regular food column for The Washington Post, .

Smoke Signals was also a finalist in the , in the Food-focused column category.

Shahin is an accomplished magazine writer and editor who has held positions at the Austin American-Statesman and the Austin Chronicle, where he was the first politics editor. His work has appeared in The New York Times, GQ, Columbia Journalism Review, Texas Monthly, Southern Living, Spin, Parents, Parenting, Esquire.com, Bon Appetit.com and NPR’s TheSalt.com, among others. He joined the Newhouse faculty in 2011.