General Excellence Nevada Magazine Judge’s comment: Loved the piece on rural airports and was impressed with the breadth of coverage, from news with some depth to lively features to useful calendars and other alternative storytelling methods. A sucker for photography, I thought the covers were strong on three of the …
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General Excellence Reno News & Review Las Vegas Weekly Greenspun Media Group Staff, The Sunday Community Service 1. April Corbin, Ricardo Torres-Cortez The Sunday Why You Should Hire a Veteran Judge’s comment: The visual layouts, facts, and information come together to make this Community Service project an exceptional work. Great …
Read More »General Excellence Boulder City Review Judge’s comment: Clean and consistent, good editorial content and well-written editorial made this newspaper stand out. Mesquite Local News Judge’s comment: Well written, catering to a visitor’s crowd. Tammy Creedon, Kristy Stralla, Eric Dahlberg, Sparks Tribune Best Breaking News Reporting 1. Celia Shortt Goodyear Boulder …
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Rachel Crosby Just 24 hours after being named one of Nevada’s journalists of merit, Rachel Crosby was among the first reporters to respond to reports of a shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas that turned out to be the worst mass killing in the history of the …
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We allow individuals to enter their own work in the annual Better Newspaper and Magazine contests, as long as it appeared in a member publication or web site during the contest year. Most of the time, the newspapers and magazines enter the work of their staff members or regular contributors. …
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Who judges the contest? Each year, Nevada trades with a press association from another state. We judge their contest entries; they judge ours. So the judges are volunteers from newspapers — editors, ad managers, reporters, photographers, designers, etc., who are professionals with expertise and experience. They’re also looking at the …
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Rachel Crosby, Las Vegas Review-Journal When Rachel Crosby was in high school, she won one of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s high school journalism awards. She still has the plaque – as well as the drive to excel at journalism. According to Rachel, that award gave her the confidence to pursue …
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Story of the Year Eli Segall, Las Vegas Review-Journal ‘Sovereign citizen’ case reveals squatters targeting vacant Las Vegas homes Here’s the lede: Carol and Myles Catania were living in a hotel, having been evicted from their suburban Las Vegas house, when they got a call from someone named Tom. He …
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General Excellence 1. Sparks Tribune 2. Mineral County Independent-News 3. Boulder City Review Best Breaking News Reporting 1. David Jacobs, Tonopah Times-Bonanza 3 dead in Esmeralda crash on U.S. Highway 95 2. Max Lancaster, Boulder City Review Man killed by NHP previously arrested in BC 3. Rose Lanigan, Lincoln County …
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