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The Manchester Journal was honored twice in the New England Newspaper & Press Association s 2020 Better Newspaper Competition Awards including a first-place win for editorial writing by Greg Sukiennik.
Editor Darren Marcy took third place for obituary writing for a feature about Barbara Riley following the local philanthropist s death last summer.
The awards were given in the category for weekly newspapers with a circulation of more than 5,000 copies and came against the largest weekly newspapers in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Sukiennik s submission consisted of three editorials, including: Learning to live with uncertainty and Crisis proves the importance of community, both of which were about dealing with COVID-19; and The wrong place and the wrong time, which was about former state Rep. Cynthia Browning s action in Montpelier requiring an in-person vote in the early
The awards were announced virtually Thursday and Friday at the 2021 New England Newspaper Convention.
Enterprise photographer Alyssa Stone was honored with two first place awards. She received the top award in the portrait photo category for a picture of Brockton High School wrestling captain Naziah Armor, who was photographed up close during a December 2019 practice, with sweat dripping down his face.
Stone also placed first in the spot news photo category for a picture taken during the tense demonstrations in downtown Brockton in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. She photographed a woman, who was kneeling in the street and whose hands were up in the air, being pepper-sprayed by a Brockton police officer as authorities were attempting to enforce a curfew.
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