Newsroom earns four first-place honors; ad staff gets two firsts 4:53 pm, Apr. 29, 2021 ×
The Mitchell Republic newspaper earned 22 awards in the annual South Dakota Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest, it was announced Thursday.
The newspaper competes in the highest division against other daily newspapers with circulations over 7,000. All of the work that was judged was compiled in the 2020 calendar year.
Multi-media sales consultant Laura Fosness won two first-place honors. Fosness took first in best two-column ad among all daily newspapers and she took first in best use of local photography advertisement.
On the editorial contest, Nick Sabato, Marcus Traxler, Erik Kaufman and Luke Hagen earned first-place awards.
Doctors, nurses, caregivers carried South Dakota through challenging year Written By: Erik Kaufman | Nick Sabato | Marcus Traxler | 8:00 am, Jan. 2, 2021 ×
Avera Queen of Peace registered nurses Emily Feldhaus and Kristi Riggs stand for a portrait in the Mitchell hospital s entryway. (Matt Gade / Republic)
Facing a deadly threat, health care workers defended and treated sick South Dakotans unlike ever before in 2020.
They were the people who treated the nearly 100,000 people who tested positive for COVID-19 and took care of more than 5,000 individuals who were hospitalized. Frontline health care workers were at the bedside of the 1,488 individuals who died as a result of the coronavirus, oftentimes alone.