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Springtime brings us warmer weather, flowers galore and, if you’re a journalist in Pennsylvania, the year’s most anticipated press awards.

On Thursday, we learned that TheBurg received 22 individual and group Keystone Media Awards, a peer-reviewed contest sponsored by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation. It’s the greatest number of awards we’ve received over our dozen-plus years of publishing.

According to PNA, it received more than 2,600 entries from 117 news organizations, with entries judged by working journalists in New York

Our awards cover a wide range of areas, including reporting, writing, photography, illustration and design and include the prestigious “Sweepstakes” award for the best performance statewide in our category.

But let us delay no further. As I have in recent years, I have all the winners listed below, with links so you can see what the judges deemed to be some of the best work done statewide in 2020.

 

Column Writing: First Place, Lawrance Binda (3 columns)

Column 1 Road Rethink, Let’s Keep It, Wishing Well

 

Column Writing: Second Place, Lawrance Binda (3 columns)

Column 2 A Mask and a Muddle, To the Ages, Viral Logic

 

News Beat Reporting: Second Place, Maddie Conley Gittens (Harrisburg School District)

News Beat School Beat

 

Ongoing News Coverage: Second Place, Lawrance Binda and Maddie Conley Gittens (Black Lives Matter)

An appeal for unity, action at Black Lives Matter rally in Harrisburg

Black Lives Matter protests focus on next steps: photo gallery

Black Lives Matter mural painted in Midtown to encourage solidarity, dialogue

Voices of Our Community

A June to Remember

 

Business or Consumer Story: Honorable Mention, Maddie Conley Gittens

Lemons to Lemonade

 

Feature Story: Second Place, Maddie Conley Gittens

School’s Out

 

Lifestyle/Entertainment Beat: Second Place, Stephanie Kalina-Metzger (restaurant/dining beat)

Lifestyle Dining Restaurant Beat

 

Lifestyle/Entertainment Beat: Honorable Mention, Karen Hendricks (running/fitness beat)

Karen Running Fitness

 

Diversity: First Place, Yaasmeen Piper, Norah Griffiths Johnson, M. Diane McCormick, Barbara Trainin Blank

Diversity 1

 

Diversity: Second Place, Karen Hendricks, Yaasmeen Piper, Barbara Trainin Blank, Maddie Conley Gittens

Diversity 2

 

Diversity: Honorable Mention, Maddie Conley Gittens, Yaasmeen Piper, Susan Ryder, M. Diane McCormick

Diversity 3

 

Headline Writing: Honorable Mention, Lawrance Binda

Headlines Hail to the Quaff, Quarantune, Squidding Around

 

Podcast: Honorable Mention, TheBurg Podcast, Karen Hendricks

Departing 2020, with Art 
Surviving Election Season
Community, Amid COVID

 

Photo/Story Essay: First Place, Dani Fresh

 

Photo/Story Essay: Honorable Mention, Chetroy Productions

Sports Feature Photo: First Place, Chetroy Productions

 

News Page Design: Second Place, Megan Caruso, Kristen Fava (3 designs)

 

 

Feature Page Design: First Place, Megan Caruso (3 designs)

 

Graphic/Photo Illustration: First Place, Bradley Gebhart

 

Graphic/Photo Illustration: Second Place, Bradley Gebhart

 

Graphic/Photo Illustration: Honorable Mention, Megan Caruso

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