Herald reporter David Olson has won first place in the regional Blethen Award competition.
Herald reporter Scott North took a second-place award in feature writing.
Olson won in the diversity category for a body of work ranging from local Iraqis responding to the U.S. invasion of Iraq to Hispanic issues.
North won for his serial narrative titled “The Garden that Grief Built.”
The C.B. Blethen Memorial Awards for Distinguished Newspaper Reporting were announced Thursday by Frank Blethen, publisher of The Seattle Times, who presented the awards at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association.
It marked the 28th year the awards have been given in memory of the man who published The Seattle Times from 1915 until his death in 1941.
Daily newspapers in Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Alaska, British Columbia and Alberta were eligible for the contest.
The Herald won in the competition’s 50,000 daily circulation and under category.
Among large newspapers, The Oregonian swept nearly every category with first-place honors.
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