Herald wins more than 60 awards at annual North Dakota Newspaper Association contest
Matt Purpur, an advertising representative, brings home five first-place awards and 11 awards overall. The Herald also won the Community Service Award.
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Grand Forks Herald building. (Herald file photo)
The Grand Forks Herald won an award for community service, a former Herald publisher was honored for his service to the industry and the newspaper won more than 60 awards overall at the annual North Dakota Newspaper Association contest.
The first-place award in the Community Service category was given to the team of Joe Bowen, Mike Jacobs and Chuck Haga for their continued coverage of efforts to install a memorial to Charles Thurber, who was hanged more than a century ago in Grand Forks.
Herald s total includes two first-place awards.
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The Grand Forks Herald won 15 awards at the Minnesota Newspaper Association s annual Better Newspapers Contest, slightly up from its total of a year ago.
Of the Herald s 15 awards at this year s event, two were first-place awards, six were second-place awards and seven were third-place awards. Last year, the Herald won 12 awards in the MNA contest.
Following are the awards won Thursday by the Herald and its staff:
Classified ad section: First place, staff.
Advertising excellence: Second place, staff
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