The News Journal and Delaware Online won 30 awards across a wide range of categories in the 2022 MDDC Press Association Awards
MDDC represents newspapers in Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C. The organization announced the winners at its annual conference Friday.
The awards divide newspapers into divisions based on their circulation. In every award category, a first- and second-place winner are named in each division. The News Journal competes in the largest-circulation division, which includes The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun.
News Journal reporters and visual journalists took home two best of show awards, 18 first-place awards and 10 second-place awards. In all, 16 different staffers were honored, and Delaware Online took first place for best overall website while sweeping the investigative, series, public service and continuing coverage categories.
You can find links to the award-winning work below:
Best of Show
First Place
- Website of General Excellence: Staff, Delaware Online
- Feature Design: Ginger Garrison, Finding Their Truth
- News Page Design: Take Uda, The War on Books
- Photo Series: Benjamin Chambers, Blue Hens Homecoming
- Feature driven multi-media storytelling, Damian Giletto, Mysterious Death of Adolf Chozor
- Series: Patricia Talorico, Esteban Parra, Who would kill the happy sausage maker
- Multi-media sports storytelling, Kevin Tresolini, Top 100 Delaware Sports Teams
- Feature story: Mathew Korfhage, Born during slavery, spicy stuff ham graces every Southern Maryland table
- General news: Amanda Fries, Wilmington Council grants pays for Nemours Swag
- Continuing coverage: Kevin Tresolini, Isabel Hughes, Esteban Parra, Hannah Edelman, DSU bus stopped in Georgia.
- Investigative reporting: Isabel Hughes, The Ultimate Betrayal
- Local government: Anitra Johnson, Family pleas about sewer leak
- Public service: Kelly Powers, Free Black people built an Eastern Shore village
- Public service: Amanda Fries, Wilmington Property seizure
- News driven multimedia storytelling: Damian Giletto, The Ultimate Betrayal
- Education reporting: Hannah Edelman, Why UD still takes money from the name behind Oxycontin
- Growth and land use: Brandon Holveck, Middletown Fearful of warehouse plans
- Environmental reporting: Kelly Powers, This tribal chief watches climate crisis.
Second Place
- Feature Photo: Benjamin Chambers, Football fans
- Photo Series: Benjamin Chambers, Firefly Music Festival
- Series: Isabel Hughes, Emma Cole
- Sports Feature: Kevin Tresolini, Paralyzed Lacrosse Player
- Investigative: Amanda Fries, Delaware’s handling of lead water
- Continuing coverage: Meredith Newman, Ongoing fight over recreational marijuana
- State government reporting: Meredith Newman, Lawmaker hesitant to go against the governor.
- Public service: Esteban Parra, Same officer fired twice.
- Growth and land use: Patricia Talorico, Camp Fright no more?
- Medical/science reporting: Emily Lytle, A small hospitals disappear, Seaford saved its hospital. But at what cost?
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