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.
North Dakota s fraught history of lynching ranged from mocking ads to the front page of The New York Times
Lynchings didn’t just happen in the antebellum south. North Dakota was home to some of the most infamous lynchings on the frontier. 6:30 am, Feb. 19, 2021 ×
While it might look more like a photo taken at the Sears Family Portrait Studio, this photo in 1930 is of the victim of the last man lynched in North Dakota and the lawman who initially brought him to justice, but couldn t keep the lynch mob from hanging him off of a bridge. It is one of many unusual lynchings in the state. From left: State s Attorney J.S. Taylor, accused killer Charles Bannon, Williams County Deputy Sheriff Earl Gorden and Sheriff Charles Jacobson. Photo courtesy: State of North Dakota Courts