Rich Hauck won a first-place Keystone award in graphic/photo illustration for this cover.
It’s early summer, which brings us warm weather, outdoors activities and, if you’re a journalist in Pennsylvania, the year’s most anticipated press awards.
Last week, we learned that TheBurg received 24 individual and group Keystone Media Awards, a peer-reviewed contest sponsored by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association (PNA) Foundation. According to PNA, it received more than 2,600 entries from 139 news organizations, with entries judged by working journalists in Michigan.
Our awards were the most we’ve ever received in a single contest. They 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. Earlier this year, TheBurg also won the “Sweepstakes” award in the PNA Foundation’s annual advertising contest.
Of special note, our contributor, Diane McCormick, received, for the second straight year, “Freelance Journalist of the Year,” a specialty prize awarded to just one journalist throughout the entire commonwealth. So, be sure to click on her submission to read some of the highest-quality freelance writing work in Pennsylvania.
But let us delay no further. As I have in previous 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 2022.
SPECIALTY AWARD
Freelance Journalist of the Year: M. Diane McCormick (a single, statewide award)
Diane McCormick Freelance Journalist of the Year
REPORTING/WRITING AWARDS
News Beat Reporting: First Place, Maddie Gittens (Harrisburg government beat; one of six contributed stories shown)
News Beat Reporting: Honorable Mention, Maddie Gittens (Harrisburg School District beat; one of six contributed stories shown)
News Feature Story: Second Place, Maddie Gittens
News Feature Story: Honorable Mention, Deborah Lynch
Sports Feature: Honorable Mention, Diane McCormick
Feature Story: Second Place, Maddie Gittens
Personality Profile: First Place, Wallace McKelvey
Lifestyle/Entertainment Beat: First Place, Karen Hendricks (multiple stories)
Night Watch, All the Buzz, Green Getaway, Reigner Reigns, They Made a Stink, For the Love of a Hound
Lifestyle/Entertainment Beat: Second Place, Stephanie Kalina-Metzger (multiple stories)
Dining Noodle Me This, It’s Her Destiny, He’ll Take the High Road, Cuisine & Community
Headline Writing: Second Place, Lawrance Binda (3 headlines)
Head1 Seasons Geekings, Best o Pesto, Louvre of Lunchmeat
Excellence in Reporting on Diversity‐ Equity and Inclusion: First Place, Bob MacGinnes, Stephanie Kalina-Metzger, Diane McCormick, Deborah Lynch
Diversity-Across Generations, Home in HBG, Painted Word, Jump for Joy, Across Cultures, Genres
Excellence in Reporting on Diversity‐ Equity and Inclusion: Second Place, Maddie Gittens, Susan Ryder, Rachel Lindsley
Excellence in Reporting on Diversity‐ Equity and Inclusion: Honorable Mention, Maddie Gittens, Diane McCormick, Karen Hendricks
Diversity-Freedom Festival, In the Spotlight, A Lasting Legacy, B&B Breaking Barriers, Taste of Home
Podcast: First Place, TheBurg Podcast, Karen Hendricks
ART/DESIGN AWARDS
Feature Photo: Second Place, Meg Caruso
Photo Story/Essay: First Place, Karen Kovacs
Photo Story/Essay: Second Place, Meg Caruso
Photo Story/Essay: Honorable Mention, Meg Caruso
Feature Page Design: Second Place, Meg Caruso (3 designs)
Graphic/Photo Illustration: First Place, Rich Hauck
Graphic/Photo Illustration: Second Place, Michelle Green
Graphic/Photo Illustration: Honorable Mention, Ryan Spahr
Lawrance Binda is publisher and editor of TheBurg.
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