SEATTLE — The Daily Herald won 21 awards in a multi-state journalism competition, including first and second places for breaking-news reporting and first-place honors for spot-news photography, online news video and online general excellence.
The award-winning work included coverage of two events of national importance: the Marysville Pilchuck High School shootings last October and the Oso mudslide of March 2014. The paper’s staff was awarded first and second places, respectively, in the breaking-news category of the annual Northwest Excellence in Journalism competition, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists.
The Herald also won first-place awards for feature writing and online videography for “The Rising,” a special section and Web feature about how area residents responded to the mudslide. The writers of “The Rising” were Eric Stevick, Rikki King and Scott North. The photographers behind the video were Mark Mulligan, Annie Mulligan and Genna Martin.
Martin also was one of three people named “New Journalist of the Year” in Western Washington. The letter nominating her said Martin is “an excellent photographer every single day on every single assignment,” and her work on the mudslide, in particular, showed commitment to journalism and the people she photographed.
The journalism awards, for work in 2014, were announced here Saturday night. In all, The Daily Herald won eight first-place awards, six second-place awards and seven third-place awards.
In most cases, the newspaper competed against other dailies in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska with 16 to 50 news staffers. Some categories, including those for photos and video, involved all newspapers, big and small.
Among mid-sized newspapers in the region, The Herald won first place for overall excellence online and third place for overall excellence for its print edition.
Other first-place Daily Herald awards:
- Dan Bates in portrait photography, for a photo of Douglas Whipple, 96, a World War II veteran named to the French Legion of Honor.
- Writer Andrea Brown in arts and lifestyle reporting for a profile of Hollywood actor and Marysville resident Steve Marlo.
- Quinn Brown in feature video for “Miss Jordan’s ‘Believe’ Program.”
Second-place winners:
- Amy Nile in personalities reporting for a profile of Humoody Jauda Smith, a blind Snohomish boy.
- Designer and copy editor Katie Mayer for print page design.
- Executive Editor Neal Pattison in the category of editorial and commentary.
- Andrea Brown in general columns for her blog, “What’s Up With That?”
Third-place winners:
- Aaron Swaney in sports feature writing, for “Winning isn’t everything,” about the Mariner High School girls basketball team.
- Editorial page editor Jon Bauer in editorial and commentary.
- North and King in investigative reporting for a story, “Evidence refutes claim about chopper availability after MP shootings.”
- Stevick in social-issues reporting for an examination of how police and citizens are working together on crime and other problems along Highway 99.
- John Boyle in the sports-column category.
The Herald Business Journal, a monthly sibling publication whose content is shared with The Daily Herald, won three awards among non-daily newspapers.
Editor Jim Davis won a first-place award in arts reporting and criticism for a story about the Edmonds Center for the Arts and third place in business reporting for a story about the sale of The Daily Herald’s old building in Everett.
Quinn Brown won a second-place award for HBJ in the arts-reporting category for a feature about promoting the local music business.
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