The Connecticut Mirror honored with 12 awards at press convention
The Connecticut Mirror was honored at the 2020 NENPA convention.
The Connecticut Mirror was honored with a number of awards at the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s recent annual convention, including a first-place award for its coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and seven other first-place awards.
The awards, announced earlier this month, went to stories published from August 2019 through July 2020.
“I am very proud of our staff and gratified that their hard work is so well recognized,” said Executive Editor Elizabeth Hamilton. “The COVID pandemic was especially challenging to cover, as it involved a complete reshuffling of the newsroom to respond to a crisis we never could have imagined and challenged us to provide a deeper level of service to our readers.”
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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
Gwen Agna: Kudos to Gazette writers
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I am writing to congratulate the New England Newspaper & Press Association for recognizing the three Gazette employees Carol Lollis, Greta Jochem and Kyle Grabowski by bestowing the first-place awards for their articles and photographs. And congratulations to these very fine professionals.
We are very fortunate to have a local newspaper (still!) and the likes of Carol, Greta and Kyle. During my tenure in the Northampton Public Schools, Carol and Greta documented the activities and families in the schools with great skill, sensitivity and care. They, and Kyle’s sports writing, are simply the best and I thank them now, as a community member, for all that they do for the Valley.
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MassLive received eight awards at the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s annual convention April 8 and 9, including first place awards for MassLive’s mobile product as well as the Rookie of the Year honor for reporter Jackson Cote.
The annual competition is the largest and most comprehensive journalism recognition program in New England and was held virtually this year with media from across New England participating.
MassLive took home three first-place awards, two second-place awards and two third-place awards at the event.
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Lorraine Gorham of Holyoke, director of the Ms. Massachusetts Senior America pageant, dances and sings while waiting to perform a number at the July 2019 competition at Holyoke High School. The Republican assistant managing editor Greg Saulmon s photo story about the pageant won a first-place award in the New England Newspaper and Press Association s annual contest.Greg Saulmon / The Republican
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