The 2011 Best of GateHouse contest will highlight and reward the most extraordinary journalism crafted by our newsrooms, and recognize our best newspapers of the year.
Congratulations to this GateHouse daily for its innovative use of Google Docs. Another GH newspaper, the Galesburg (Ill.) Register-Mail, was a finalist.
Longtime hockey beat writer Dave Eminian of the Journal Star (Peoria, Ill.) is the subject of a recent profile on the official website of the American Hockey League.
The MetroWest Daily News Sunday and daily editions were honored as being among the best in their class yesterday in the annual New England Newspaper & Press Association competition.
The Patriot Ledger has won six awards, including a multimedia prize for best slide show, from the New England Associated Press News Executives Association.
The Bulletin (Norwich, Conn.) was awarded three first place prizes and two second place prizes in the 2011 New England Associated Press News Executives Association Contest, Class II.
The GateHouse Media News & Interactive Division is excited to announce the winners of the 2010 Best of GateHouse editorial contest. More than 175 journalists and newspapers are recognized in the 2010 contest, which included the addition of a fourth division.
For a second successive year, the Downers Grove Reporter has been named the best large nondaily newspaper in Illinois.
The Reporter, a publication of the Suburban Life group near Chicago, earned a total of 53 awards Friday at the Illinois Press Association’s annual presentation in Springfield, taking home the organization’s prestigious Sweepstakes Award.
The Plaquemine Post/South claimed Newspaper of the Year honors and 34 other awards in the Louisiana Press Association's Division 7 competition, including the editorial sweepstakes for best editorial staff Saturday.
The Peoria Journal Star's Dave Reynolds has been chosen the Illinois Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscaster and Sportwriters Association, based in Salisbury, N.C. He has shared the honor with Rick Telander of the Chicago Sun-Times both years. On hand for last year's awards ceremony were Jim Nantz of CBS, Peter Gammons of ESPN/Boston Globe and golfing legend Arnold Palmer. Reynolds and his wife, Linda, plan to be in North Carolina next month for this year's ceremony.
The Ardmoreite garnered two first place awards and placed in six other categories in the Oklahoma Press Association’s 2010 Better Newspaper Contest.
Judging for the 2010 Best of GateHouse contest is officially under way.
The Patriot Ledger has won seven national journalism awards from Suburban Newspapers of America, including first place prizes for best editorial writing and best coverage of local business and economic news.
In the 2010 Suburban Newspapers of America Editorial Contest, The Enterprise (Brockton, MA) took home first prize in community service for the newspaper’s “Paint the Town Pink” edition on breast cancer awareness. It also won writing awards for its stories about the massive local floods in March of last year, for the highway death of state police Sgt. Douglas Weddleton of Brockton and for a narrative feature about heroin addiction, part of The Enterprise’s ongoing “Wasted Youth” coverage.
The Patriot Ledger has won two national Best in Business awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Here's a look at onsite training that the News & Interactive Division has on tap in the coming weeks:
Week of June 20
Harrisburg Daily Register [IL]
Eldorado Daily Journal [IL]
Carmi Times [IL]
The Olney Daily Mail [IL]
Flora Advocate Press [IL]
Newport Independent [AR]
Stuttgart Daily Leader [AR]
Helena The Daily World [AR]
Heber Springs The Sun Times [AR]
