Recognized by SPJ, NYNPA
The Highlands Current won awards last month from the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the New York News Publishers Association.
In the SPJ competition, The Current won for reporting by New York City area newspapers with circulations of less than 100,000 for the series Modern Immigrants, by Joey Asher. It was the paper’s third consecutive win.
In the NYNPA Awards for Excellence, The Current won eight categories among papers with circulations of 10,000 or less: feature writing (Asher, for Modern Immigrants); business reporting (Leonard Sparks, for “Who Will Watch the Kids?”); investigative reporting (Richard Kreitner, for Wildfires: What Are the Risks?); column writing (Brian PJ Cronin, for Out There); sports column (Asher, for Reporter’s Notebook); community service (Cronin, for Talking Trash); page design/presentation (Pierce Strudler); and feature photography (Ross Corsair, for “Martial Art,” below).
