The Society of American Business Editors &Writers presented two national awards to the Herald’s Business section on Sunday.
The association’s “Best in Business” awards were for a Herald project by Bryan Corliss called “Worldwide Assembly Line” on the Boeing Co.’s new 787 aircraft and another by Mike Benbow called “Our Fading Fleet” about Everett’s commercial fishing industry.
The judges had this to say about the 787 project:
“Globalization is dramatically presented through the cockpit of a major new Boeing aircraft. What at first looks like a triumph for U.S. industry really isn’t totally so, which the writer proves by stripping back the skin of this new plane; rather, it is a hybrid triumph, with a number of nations getting some of the economic action. Very good detail, in words and graphics, on an economic shift of critical importance to the U.S. economy – and the economy of the paper’s area. Penetrates well beneath the issue’s veneer.”
And judges said this about the fishing series:
“Effectively, at times emotionally, weaves historical vignettes describing how an industry built a community and helped, as the writer put it, ‘feed the world with the bounty of Puget Sound.’ Very difficult to put down, the dramatic stories of the fishermen, their families and their hard lives – and deaths – at sea. Where a day’s catch once paid for a house, today’s sad reality is exemplified by five fishermen splitting a ‘bounty’ of only $79 for a long day of backbreaking work. Facts, perspective, people, clearly presented through well-chosen words, old photos and fresh graphics.”
The awards were in the society’s project category for small newspapers, those with a maximum of 125,000 subscribers. Only three awards were presented in this category. The third went to the Sun Journal newspaper in Maine, which traveled to South America to report on how tree growing there threatened the state’s paper industry.
The awards were presented at the society’s annual conference in Anaheim, Calif.
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