Argus Leader wins 34 awards at South Dakota newspaper contest
The Argus Leader won 34 awards at the South Dakota Newspaper Association s annual Better Newspapers, contest, following the announcement of the winners on Thursday afternoon.
The paper took home 16 first place awards in the category of daily newspapers with a circulation of over 7,000 including Best Website, Best Use of Social Media and Public Service.
The Argus Leader also placed first in that category s Sweepstakes award, based on total points accumulated from individual awards earned.
Best Digital Ad Idea/Campaign:
First place - Jennifer Burns
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Independent Media has announced that its community newspaper,
The Commons, won 10 prizes in the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s 2021 Better Newspaper Competition, in divisions for weekly newspapers with circulation greater than 6,000.
The Commons is based in Brattleboro.
The awards for the newspaper, which covers Brattleboro and the surrounding towns and villages in Windham County, Vermont, included one first prize for Spot News Story for Randolph T. Holhut and Olga Peters, “Cash-strapped Retreat pursues shutdown after rebuke by state agency.”
The category awards exceptional work on stories that are unplanned, like this report, where Holhut and Peters broke down a temporary but public and escalating conflict between the Vermont Department of Public Health and the Brattleboro Retreat, a psychiatric hospital providing essential services to the state of Vermont.
Brian Kaufman, Photo Story
Shawn Windsor, Sports Feature
Janet Graham, Best Headline
Detroit Free Press Staff, Best Video Presentation
Georgea Kovanis, Best Writing
The Freep also won additional awards in other categories.
Nancy Kaffer won third place for Best Columnist; Phoebe Wall Howard won second place in Business/Agriculture News; Ryan Garza won third place in News Photo and second place in Best Photo; Kimberly P. Mitchell won third place in Photo Story; Detroit Free Press Staff won third place in Special Selection, third place for Best Coverage of the Coronavirus in Michigan and second place in Spot News Story; Jeff Seidel won second place in Sports writing.
World Press Photo 2021: Outstanding Images Nominees For Photo Of The Year
As 2020 joined the pantheon of years pivotal in history, the nominees for the 64th annual World Press Photo Contest are a reflection of those remarkably difficult 12 months.
In rewarding professional photo journalists for the best images of visual journalism, whether entered as singles or stories, judges asses their accurate, fair, and visually compelling insights about our world.
“In an unprecedented year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and social justice protests around the globe, the nominees share a diversity of interpretations and perspectives to these and other urgent issues such as the climate crisis, transgender people’s rights, and territorial conflicts,” explained the organization.