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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Michigan Advance wins second straight Michigan Press Association News Media Publication of the Year
Susan J. Demas photo and illustration The Michigan Advance has been named the Michigan Press Association's News Media Publication of the Year for 2024, the second straight year the publication has won the organization's top honor. The awards were announced Thursday evening at the association's annual gathering in Frankenmuth. The theme for the event was 'Journalism…Democracy in Action.' In total, the Michigan Advance took home 17 awards spanning 18 categories in the 2024 MPA Better Newspaper Contest, including first place for Government/Education News, Sports Writing, Digital Presentation, News Photo, and Feature Photo. 'Myself and the staff at Michigan Advance are incredibly honored to have again been selected as News Media Publication of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. This recognition is a testament to our team's dedication to public service journalism, spanning in-depth government coverage to compelling visual storytelling. Our back-to-back win reinforces the Advance's commitment to informing and engaging Michiganders every single day,' said Editor-in-Chief Jon King. The annual contest ran from Aug. 1, 2023, through July 31, 2024. The Michigan Advance is a member of States Newsroom, the nation's largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. The network reports on politics and policy from every capital, with coverage provided free of charge – without pop-ups, paywalls or ads. Competing against other statewide publications, Michigan Advance won second place in 2021 and 2022 for Newspaper of the Year. Previously, the Advance was named the 2020 Newspaper of the Year for Class D weekly publications. The Advance also took second place for Newspaper of the Year in that category in 2019. 'The annual Michigan Press Association Better Newspaper Contest gives our members a chance each year to assess and put forth their team's best work in journalism, photojournalism, column writing, graphic design and advertising,' said Wes Smith, Michigan Press Association past president and group publisher of View Newspaper Group. 'It is a rare moment in our profession where we allow ourselves to reflect and experience something akin to satisfaction for a job well done. Anyone in this business today is in it, not for kudos, but because of a passion and desire to serve our readers, our advertisers and our communities.' 2024 Statewide News Media Publication of the Year 1st Place – Best Digital Presentation – Nelle Dunlap, Goran Butorac, Susan J. Demas 1st Place – Government/Education News – Was Ottawa County's newest commissioner punished for running? – Sarah Leach 2nd Place – Government/Education News – 'Trauma after trauma': Nassar survivors grapple with another sexual abuse investigation at MSU – Anna Gustafson 1st Place – Best Newspaper/Publication Design – Nelle Dunlap, Goran Butorac, Susan J. Demas 1st Place – Sports Writing – Riley Gaines' selection as commencement speaker riles some Adrian College alums – Jon King 1st Place – News Photo – Supporters defiantly wave Trump's mug shot as he speaks in Detroit – Andrew Roth 2nd Place – News Photo – President Biden warns Trump is out for 'revenge' – Andrew Roth 1st Place – Feature Photo – Ms. Tea says the rent is 'too damn high' – Anna Liz Nichols 2nd Place – Feature Photo – Abortion rights loom large in 2024 campaign – Lucy Valeski 3rd Place – Feature Photo – Legendary singer Diana Ross wows Detroit at Michigan Central Station reopening – Andrew Roth 2nd Place – Reporter of the Year – Anna Liz Nichols 2nd Place – Spot News Story – Michigan State University to release thousands of Nassar documents, Nessel reopens investigation – Anna Liz Nichols 2nd Place – Best Page or Pages Design – 'Yearning for help': Teen dating violence survivors and allies call for more education on abuse – Anna Liz Nichols, Susan J. Demas 2nd Place – News Enterprise Reporting – LGBTQ+ Michiganders struggle for rights, acceptance – Jon King, Anna Liz Nichols, Andrew Roth 3rd Place – News Enterprise Reporting – The 'mom gap': Few mothers have served in the Michigan Legislature while raising children – Anna Liz Nichols 3rd Place – Business/Agriculture News – 'We fight the good fight and continue forward'- Jon King, Susan J. Demas 3rd Place – Opinion – Rick Haglund SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Business
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Herald-Banner takes top top honors at annual Best of CNHI awards
MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Citing its 'robust local news coverage, strong editorials and coverage of local topics,' judges this week honored the Herald-Banner as the top award-winner in the annual Best of CNHI journalism awards for 2024. The Herald-Banner was named Division II Newspaper of the Year. CNHI manages more than 70 newspapers – from weekly to daily – in 25 states crisscrossing the country. Finalists were the Crossville (Tennessee) Chronicle and the Lebanon (Indiana) Reporter. Judges applauded the Herald-Banner for overcoming challenges encountered by newsrooms across the country – 'placing its focus on its own community for the answers and it shows through concentration on being a hyper-local newspaper emphasizing comprehensive coverage.' Kent Miller, who came aboard as editor of Herald-Banner Publications in August of 2023, pointed to the 'C' in community journalism as his driving philosophy for the newspaper. 'Newspapers like the Herald-Banner need to aspire to be the storytellers and record keepers for their community,' he said. 'Community newspapers do what other news outlets can't or won't do – cover a community.' Miller continued, noting the state of the newspaper industry that has seen countless communities and small towns across the country left without local representation. 'It creates a desert instead of a snapshot when a local newspaper goes under and it leaves the people of those smaller towns without a voice,' he said. 'People don't realize what they've lost [when a paper closes its doors] until it's too late.' Judges also singled out the Herald-Banner for 'making great use of the available news hole by making sure almost every column inch is filled with relevant local content.' And unlike many smaller newspapers, judges lauded the Herald-Banner for 'producing hard-hitting, top-flight local editorials in every edition [and] publishing an editorial page that stimulates community conversations and serves as a marketplace of ideas.' Herald-Banner publisher Lisa Chappell credited the staff for working tirelessly for the community. 'We do this because we believe in true journalism and that our community deserves to have a local newspaper. To be recognized and celebrated by our peers is just icing on the cake,' Chappell said. "This newsroom is small but mighty. They do an excellent job and I am proud of each one of them. They publish three newspapers and a quarterly magazine as a four-person team and they do it with heart. They have earned their recognition as Newspaper of the Year. Along with the Newspaper of the Year Award, individual staffers also were recognized for outstanding work done in 2024. Miller was recognized as Editorial Writer of the Year, Warren Morrison was named Designer of the Year for the second year in a row and David Claybourn was awarded Photographer of the Year with judges particularly taking notice of his front page solar eclipse photo that ran last spring. The four honors earned by the Herald-Banner set a high-water mark for CNHI as the most captured in a single year by one newspaper. Additionally, Claybourn was a finalist for Sportswriter of the Year and regular freelancer Laurie White King was a finalist for Photographer of the Year.
