Staff Blog
Our Greatest Hits: Keystone Press Awards edition
Journalism awards are a weird thing. The nature of the work we do here is to be in the moment. Timely. Which is why it always feels a little strange when it comes time to submit your work for awards competitions — to have a panel of judges look at something you published independent of its place in the time-space continuum. Context or no, good storytelling endures, and City Paper did very nicely for itself at this year's Keystone Press Awards, taking home 11 awards in its division:
- First for Investigative Reporting for Winnie Atterbury and Stacia Friedman's "F for Felony"
- First for column for erstwhile managing editor/current John Dougherty Campaign Manager Brian Hickey's "Philly Blunt"
- First for business or consumer story for Ted Hesson's "Betting the House"
- First for news beat reporting for Doron Taussig's coverage of immigration
- Second for sports story for Brian Hickey's "It Takes a Neighborhood"
- Second for news feature for Doron Taussig's "The Prodigy"
- Second for feature photo for Michael T. Regan's "We're Taking Poe Back"
- Second for photo story for Michael T. Regan and Rick Valenzuela's "Stenton Avenue Reprise"
- Second for Reseca Glasser and Evan M. Lopez's front page design
- Second for Reseca Glasser's page design
- Honorable Mention for Brian Hickey's "Cocktails With…" series
We're especially proud of how we did in the Keystones' Specialty Awards, which pits entrants from papers from all divisions against each other. Here, we swept the "Distinguished Writing — weekly" category, as Tom Namako took first for "Welcome Home Soldier," "Aramark's Food Feud" and "Wait a Second" and Doron Taussig took second with "85 Shots," "The Deluge" and "An American Tragedy."
Brass Tacks: The 11 awards in our division tied us with our cross-town competitor, though they had one more first place than we did, one more honorable mention and two fewer seconds. Beverly over at the Keystones informs me that the scoring system breaks down thusly: A first place is worth 10 points, second is worth 5 and honorable mention is worth 2 — meaning that ye old PW bested us in the coveted divisional sweepstakes award by a scant 4 points. Well played, PW. We tip our hats.
Check out the breakdown here, in PDF form.
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