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The 30 awards for the Long Beach Post are on-par with the largest newsrooms in California in the digital contest, including 31 awards for Los Angeles Times, 23 awards for the Sacramento Bee and 15 awards for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Post newsroom earned a total of eight first-place awards and one open-division award for best digital news photo of any publication in California for Visuals Editor Thomas Cordova.
For the first time ever, the Post also placed in the general excellence category, with judges noting the Post’s “tough-minded accountability reporting” with “informed commentary.”
Journalists Kelly Puente, Sebastian Echeverry, Valerie Osier and Alena Mashke placed first in health reporting on the pandemic for their coverage of the socioeconomic disparities of COVID-19. “The Long Beach Post provides an important public service, going behind the daily COVID-19 case counts to help readers understand the ‘why’ behind the demographic trends. An outstanding example of why local news matters,” judges said.