The Arizona Press Club is pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Community Journalist of the Year Award. Judges : Jennifer Napier-Pearce is the editor for the Salt Lake Tribune, Daniel Simmons-Ritchie is an investigative reporter with PennLive and the Patriot-News, Sheila McCann is the managing editor for the Salt Lake Tribune. Joseph Flaherty Phoenix…
Stephanie Innes named Arizona’s Virg Hill Journalist of the Year
The Arizona Press Club is pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Virg Hill Journalist of the Year Award. Judges : Michael Winerip is a former New York Times investigative reporter who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, Jenna Russell is a Boston GLobe investigative reporter who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for…
Winners: 2017 Arizona Press Club photo awards
Nick Oza was named News Photographer of the Year and Christian Petersen was awarded Sports Photographer of the Year, with the award for Picture Story of the Year also going to Oza. Photographer of the Year First – Nick Oza, The Arizona Republic Second – Mike Christy, Arizona Daily Star Third – Rob Schumacher, The Arizona…
*Updated* Announcing the winners of the 2017 news writing contest, community and statewide division
The Arizona Press Club is proud to announce the winners in the Community category of the 2017 Writing and Design Competition. Note: A handful of results from select categories have been delayed, we will update this list with more winners in the coming days. A1. Spanish-language news reporting (No entries were submitted this year.) …
The 2016 Arizona Press Club Writing/Design Awards are now open
ARIZONA PRESS CLUB 2018 AWARDS COMPETITION FOR THE BEST JOURNALISM IN ARIZONA ENTRY FORM PART I THE RULES FOR WRITING AND DESIGN ELIGIBILITY Journalists are considered members of the Arizona Press Club if they work in the production of news for any Arizona newspaper, online news site, periodical or news service whose primary purpose is to…
Arizona Press Club announces the winners of the annual design categories
Community Front-Page layout/design Judge – Andrea Zagata, a page designer for the New York Times. First: John Layton, Arizona Capitol Times Comments: “A visual interesting way to show a story with what I can only assume was very limited art options.” Second: Sam Gross, Arizona Daily Wildcat Comments: “This page is visually interesting but would benefit…
Announcing the winners of the 2016 news writing contest, community division (updated)
The Arizona Press Club is proud to announce the winners in the Community category of the 2016 Writing and Design Competition. Community investigative reporting Judge Andy Hall is the executive director of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and was a judge for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. First: Hank Stephenson, Arizona Capitol…
Winners: 2016 Arizona Press Club annual student award winners
The Arizona Press Club is proud to announce the statewide student winners of the 2016 Writing Awards. Judge Sandy Banisky is the former deputy managing editor of The Baltimore Sun and the Abell Professor in Baltimore Journalism at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Student investigative reporting First: Staff, News21 “Comprehensive reporting on the…
Announcing the winners of the 2016 news writing contest, statewide (updated)
The Arizona Press Club is proud to announce the statewide winners of the 2016 Writing Awards. The Don Bolles Award for Investigative Reporting Judge Dee Hall is the co-founder of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. First: Caitlin Schmidt, Arizona Daily Star Comments: “This story involved true shoe leather investigative reporting. It started out as…
Paulina Pineda named Community Journalist of the Year
The Arizona Press Club is pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 Community Journalist of the Year Award. Judges Dennis Joyce is the assistant metro editor of the Tampa Bay Times, Autumn Phillips is the executive editor of the Quad-City Times and Dennis Anderson is the executive editor of the Peoria, Ill. Journal Star. Community Journalist…