Top prizes for illustration, column, features
The Highlands Current won 17 awards at the annual New York Press Association conference on March 20 and 21 in Saratoga Springs. The weekly newspaper has won 156 NYPA awards since 2013.
Winners were selected in 68 categories by members of the Missouri Press Association from 2,082 entries submitted by 132 news organizations.
The Current won seven prizes among papers of all circulations, including first place for graphic illustration (Deb Lucke for The New Improved Anopheles Mosquito); video (Erin Holton, Facundo Martinez and Sofia Milojev of Marist University, in partnership with The Current, for A Mother’s Fight for Bridge Barriers); advertising media kit; and audience development promotion (Emily Hare and Eleanor Hare for Ice Cream Passport).
The paper won second place for design excellence (Pierce Strudler) and third place citations for solutions journalism (Brian PJ Cronin for Talking Trash, Part III) and editorial cartoon (Clay Jones).
Among smaller papers, The Current won first and third place for column (Michael Turton and Joey Asher, respectively) and the top prizes for sports feature (Asher, for Jogging with Jimmy), feature story (Cronin for Out There: Pond Rock) and feature photo(s) (Ross Corsair, for Planet Parties, which also won third place for picture story).
The Current won second and third place for advertising that promotes the paper; third place for coverage of education and third place for small ad.
