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)
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
Business or Consumer Story: Honorable Mention, Maddie Conley Gittens
Feature Story: Second Place, Maddie Conley Gittens
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)
Diversity: First Place, Yaasmeen Piper, Norah Griffiths Johnson, M. Diane McCormick, Barbara Trainin Blank
Diversity: Second Place, Karen Hendricks, Yaasmeen Piper, Barbara Trainin Blank, Maddie Conley Gittens
Diversity: Honorable Mention, Maddie Conley Gittens, Yaasmeen Piper, Susan Ryder, M. Diane McCormick
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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