MONROE TWP. – The Jersey Journal and two other information corporations affiliated with Advance Publications swept the leading awards Thursday evening in the New Jersey Press Association’s annual competition for every day newspapers.
The Journal and The Convey-Moments, which serves Warren County in New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley location of Pennsylvania, tied for the typical excellence award presented to the most effective everyday newspaper with a circulation beneath 25,000. The Star-Ledger gained the standard excellence prize for greater newspapers.
Staff members users and contributors to The Journal been given 10 to start with-area prizes for news, athletics, capabilities, photography and design and style, plus six second-location and five 3rd-place awards, for the duration of a ceremony held at the Forsgate Place Club. The contest was judged by journalists from information organizations in Utah.
Winners included:
- Contributor Jason Bernstein, very first put in sports activities writing for a portfolio that involved profiles of Rutgers star Meagan McClelland, former Ferris standout Isiah Dasher, and St. Anthony’s Kyle Anderson, who now performs for the Memphis Grizzlies.
- Former Team Author Peter D’Auria, initially area in the Initial Amendment-Art Weissman contest for 3 article content showing imaginative use of open up community information. D’Auria received paperwork that revealed how Hudson County invested $20,000 for each month to secure the county executive’s dwelling from protesters, how Jersey City council customers made use of city cash for continuing instruction with questionable municipal gains, and the significant “boat check” received by a neighborhood faculty official upon retirement.
- Editor/Designer Mike Gesario, 2nd location for athletics site structure for a assortment of two-website page spreads and back addresses from the Monday Sports Added part.
- Assistant Handling Editor Tanya Manthey obtained 4 awards for headlines and web site layout: first area for headlines, 1st and third place for news/small business web page style and design, and very first location for sports website page design and style.
- Columnist Joan Quigley’s composing about a method for previous jail inmates, a simply call for EMTs to be allowed to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, and Hudson Regional Hospital government Nizar Kifaieh gained 3rd location for information columns.
- Workers Author Joshua Rosario, 3rd spot in news creating for a portfolio of 3 contrasting tales: an arrest in the unsolved murder of a Jersey City lady immediately after 44 decades, variations proposed to Jersey City’s learn prepare that could at some point close out an period of buying malls, and the condition of Jersey City’s Hasidic local community two a long time following shootings at a Kosher sector.
- Columnist Alexander Santora gained two awards, reflecting the diversity of variations Journal audience appreciate each 7 days in Thursday’s Lifestyle portion. Columns about transgender individuals in Catholic lifestyle, spiritual exemptions from vaccination, and lessons from Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” gained 2nd location for information columns. Other columns about politics and religion, aiding the homeless, and a Secaucus church on the verge of closing won third place for specialty creating.
- Editor-at-Huge Margaret Schmidt, second area in editorial comment for her Web site 2 essays about Hudson County commissioners, the shooting dying of a disturbed male at the arms of Bayonne law enforcement, and The Journal’s considerably-reviewed non-endorsement of Governor Phil Murphy’s bid for reelection.
- Photograph Editor Reena Rose Sibayan captured 4 awards for images. She gained each very first and 2nd place for characteristic image stories about students returning to faculty as the pandemic ebbed, next spot for portrait photography in a 9/11 distinctive problem, and 3rd spot in a group honoring other pictures similar to the pandemic.
- Contributor Jim Testa, very first spot in critical crafting for his insightful assessments of Hudson County new music revealed in the Friday Arts & Leisure part.
- Team Writer Teri West received to start with position for organization and government crafting. Her portfolio integrated tales about the quick advancement of Journal Square, the adaptation of Hudson firms to lifetime immediately after COVID-19, and the impression of inflation. Other stories about young children coping with the initially year of the pandemic, racial disparities in vaccination premiums, the effect of COVID-19 on Hudson’s South Asians and entrepreneurs, and the return of learners and academics to in-man or woman classes last fall acquired 2nd put for coverage of the coronavirus.
- D’Auria, Manthey, Schmidt and Sibayan received first place for the exclusive situation, “Never Ignore,” posted on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 assaults.
- Lastly, The Journal personnel been given a initial-spot award for the state’s ideal in general neighborhood news report by a lesser newspaper. David Blomquist, The Journal’s editor and publisher, recognized this award and the common excellence prize on behalf of the whole newsroom.
“There is no increased honor than the privilege of serving our local community, regardless of whether or not we acquire awards for it,” Blomquist reported. “But it’s gratifying to know our friends understand the depth, style and perseverance of The Journal’s every day work.”