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Journalists have been honored for their work in several recent journalism contests.
The awards were given by the Associated Press Sports Editors, Best of the West, The Headliners Foundation, the National Headliner Awards and the Society for News Design.
“It’s always gratifying to see our journalists receive recognition for outstanding work,” said Keith Campbell, The News’ managing editor. “It’s especially so when the recognition comes for such a wide range of work in a year that challenged us in so many ways.”
National Headliner Awards
The journalists won 11 honors in the 87th National Headliner Awards, one of the oldest and most prestigious media-industry contests.
Staff members received three first-place awards, five second-place honors and three third-place honors for their writing and photography.
Mark Lamster won first place in special or feature column on one subject by an individual for his architecture coverage. Judges wrote that his columns “teach us that the urban landscape is an important part of the community as a reflection of how a community views itself. … Texans may think of themselves as bigger and better, but in the end Lamster notes that value trumps conceit.”
Sam Blum won first place in sports news writing by an individual or team for stories about a college wrestling tournament that was put on despite the threat of COVID-19. His “presentation of sports news not only gives a complete report, he does so in such a way that the reader has no choice but to feel impressed, or angry, or sad, or even amazed,” judges said.
Joseph Hoyt finished second in the same category.
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Tom Fox won first place in the pictorial category for an image of a rainbow and an airplane in flight.
The staff of The News earned second place in political coverage for a portfolio of work on the 2020 elections, including stories by Tom Benning, Paul Cobler, Alfredo Corchado, Todd J. Gillman, Allie Morris and Dianne Solís.
In local news beat coverage, Nic Garcia won second-place honors for his coverage of Dallas County’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Solís earned third place for her immigration coverage.
Sports writer Tim Cowlishaw finished in second place in the sports column by an individual category, while Kevin Sherrington took third.
Vernon Bryant won second-place honors in feature photography for images from the MLK Jr. Oratory Competition, while Lynda M. González took third place in portrait for a photograph of Lola Jean Gardner.
Best of the West
Journalists at The News earned five honors in the annual Best of the West awards, which recognize journalism from newspapers, magazines and online news publications in the West and Southwest.
Joseph Hoyt earned first place in sports reporting for a story about the return of high-school football in a West Texas county that had not recorded a case of COVID-19 yet. The article “did a wonderful job of portraying the human side of a conflict we all lived through in 2020, with vivid details, great story structure and a conversational style of writing that really draws the reader in and gives a sense of place,” a judge wrote.
Photographer Smiley N. Pool won first place in news slideshow for a series of images about how space crept into North Texans’ lives as social distancing, and coronavirus, became the norm. “There were some simple, some unexpected, and some interesting, but every single of the many photos … was very deliberate,” the judges wrote, calling it “a really smart look back at a really extraordinary year.”
Pool also took third place in sports photography for an image of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott suffering an ankle injury.
The team of Alfredo Corchado, Valeria Olivares and Dianne Solís earned third place in immigration and border reporting for work covering the U.S.-Mexico border as well as the alleged abuse of immigrants fighting deportation. Judges called it “a strong mix of straight-up beat reporting at the border, accountability journalism and documentation of a traumatic year for immigrants, migrants and asylum seekers.”
In page design, Jeff Meddaugh won third place for a package about an exhibit featuring the work of conceptual artist Mark Dion at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. “Designing two facing pages can be challenging, but the designer’s great attention to detail helped pull it all together,” the judges said.