Ashland Times-Gazette, Times-Gazette.com capture eight AP awards
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Ashland Times-Gazette
Ashland Times-Gazette staff members and Times-Gazette.com captured three first-place awards and five other awards for news, sports and column writing, reporting and photography in the annual Ohio Associated Press Media Editors contest.
Award placements were announced Tuesday. The Times-Gazette competed in Division II against other newspapers with a daily circulation between 8,000 and 11,999. The awards were for work published in 2020.
Photographer Tom Puskar and sports writer Chris Snow led the staff with two awards each.
Puskar claimed first place for Best Sports Photo for an entry a judge called Great work titled, Off the Fingertips. He also won third place in that category for Playing in the Rain.
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The Michigan APME announcement was made Thursday.
Rankings in terms of first, second or third place, along with General Excellence and other major awards from the state contest, will be announced at a later date.
The Monroe News staffers and their honors are as follows:
Tom Hawley: Best Sports Photo finalist for Champ Screams.
Niles Kruger: Best Sports Column finalist.
Ryan Loren: Best Sports Feature finalist for Bleeding Eye.
Caitlin Taylor Boron: Best Column finalist.
Paula Wethington: Best Digital Presence finalist.
The Monroe News competes in Division II in this contest, which represents a circulation of 11,001 – 20,000 readers. Other newspapers in that division included The Flint Journal, Lansing State Journal, Traverse City Record-Eagle and Kalamazoo Gazette, among others.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Awards propel paper to 11th straight General Excellence designation
They didn t have to travel any snowy roads this year, and they didn t have to hurry back from Des Moines to finish their next edition, but the staff of the Dickinson County News still earned a healthy amount of acclaim at this year s Iowa Newspaper Association s Better Newspaper Contest. The newspaper won 24 awards Thursday eight of them first place.
The award ceremony and related convention were held virtually this year due to COVID-19, rather than their usual venue in the Des Moines Marriott.
The DCN secured its 11th consecutive General Excellence award, placing third in the state s largest category of weekly newspapers. The award takes writing, photography, advertising, page design and digital content into account, and is presented to the top three newspapers in five classifications separated by publication frequency and circulation size.