Northern Colorado Communications Group
Tri State Livestock News
Congratulations to Tri-State Livestock News, based in South Dakota. The group took home several Livestock Publications Council awards this month at the 2010 Agricultural Media Summit in Saint Paul, Minnesota, even though the competition was stiff. Congratulations to our South Dakota team!
- Special Issue (100 pages or less)
- Honorable Mention
- “Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo Annual Premier Addition” by Sharla Hayford
- Special Issue (more than 100 pages)
- 2nd Place
- “The Cattle Journal” by Sharla Hayford
- Cover, Newspapers
- Honorable Mention
- “White Ranch” by Sharla Hayford
Greeley Tribune
The Tribune cleaned up at the 2010 CPA Awards and 2010 Colorado Associated Press Awards:
Not only did we win General Excellence in our size category, but won two Sweepstakes Awards, competing against all size papers, one for editorial and photo design; and another by business reporter Sharon Dunn for her thorough and detailed coverage of the failed new Frontier Bank.
In all, the staff won 26 individual awards, in addition to a healthy stack the day before from Colorado AP.
Our youngest reporter at the Tribune, Jakob Rodgers, won a first place AP writing award as well.
Colorado Press Association Awards
Colorado AP Awards
Windsor Now
CPA award: Best Sports Column Writing 2007 – Sherrie Peif
Fort Collins Now
Society of Professional Journalists, Colorado
First Place, Investigative/Enterprise Reporting
First Place, General News Reporting in a series or package
First Place, Reader
First Place, News Reporting single story
First Place, News Feature
Second Place, News Feature
Second Place, General News Reporting in a series or package
Second Place, News Reporting single story
Second Place, Political Reporting
Third Place, Reader
Third Place, Personal Column
The editorial staff of Fort Collins Now won 11 top honors Friday night at the Colorado Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists annual awards banquet, more than any other local newspaper that entered the contest. Among the honors were five first place awards.
FCN Managing Editor Andra Coberly won first place in the investigative/enterprise category for Gone with the Wind, an article that revealed Fort Collins wind power program wasn’t actually producing wind power, but paying for out-of-state projects that refused to account for the money local subscribers were giving them.
“Coberly asked the right questions,” wrote Judge William Douglas, an SPJ member from Kennewick, Wash. “Instead of writing just another pro-wind energy story, she focused on how a system designed to promote development of new sources of power generation has turned into a revenue generating system. The story helped show that the opportunity ended up being a winner takes all, with the environmental being short-changed. Nice bit of seeing through the smoke and mirrors.”
Editor-in-chief Greg Campbell won first place in three categories: News reporting, single story; general reporting, series or package; and the reader category, which is awarded to articles that tell an entertaining story and are enjoyable to read.
The news reporting award was for The Sound of Silence, a short story about the military funeral of a local soldier killed in Iraq. Douglas said, Greg’s crafted writing conveys to the reader the sadness and honor of a military funeral with a realness thats rarely felt short of being there.
The general reporting in a series or package award was for Campbell’s continuing coverage of the Tim Master’s case, which the judge called a compelling, well-written series of stories that ask significant questions about the criminal justice system.
The reader citation was for Campbells regular Notebook column.
Freelance reporter Sara Behunek won first place in the news feature category for her article about a Fort Collins street preacher who walked to Washington D.C. in protest of the U.S. war in Iraq. Douglas said the story was, “A well-written, thoughtful study of the kind of person many people dismiss as being on the fringe for his religious and political views.”
Coberly won second place in the same category for King of Hearts, her profile of a murder victim in the wake of his violent shooting death.
Campbell, Coberly and FCN Publisher Joel Dyer won second place in the general reporting, series or package category for their coverage of the immigration raids in Greeley.
Campbell and reporter Rebecca Boyle took second place for news reporting, single story, for Eyewitness Describes Fort Collins Murder, and Boyle also took second place for political reporting, news or feature, for Musgrave 2.0, an in-depth profile of the 4th Congressional District incumbent.
Boyle also took third place in the reader category for Moving 911, her article about Fort Collins police moving into a new building, and finally, Campbell’s Notebook column also took third place in the personal columns category.
