{"id":47727,"date":"2019-05-10T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/empire-celebrates-press-club-awards\/"},"modified":"2019-05-10T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:50:00","slug":"empire-celebrates-press-club-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/empire-celebrates-press-club-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire celebrates Press Club awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

Juneau Empire newsroom staffers recently took home seven awards<\/a> for its work in 2018 from the Alaska Press Club Awards contest in Anchorage.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Staff photographer Michael Penn won two first-place awards for his photographs, for best feature photo and best sports photo.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Reporter Alex McCarthy won three third-place awards, for best general news reporting, best breaking news story and best culture reporting.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Reporter Ben Hohenstatt won a second-place award for best headline writing, and Angelo Saggiomo third place for best page layout and design.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“The Empire may not be the biggest newsroom in the state, but we certainly are the hardest working. Each day, I am inspired by the talent, drive and dedication of the news team, their courage and their heart. Congratulations to them, for these well deserved awards,” Empire Editor Emily Russo Miller said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

You can read and see the award-winning work in full below.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The Juneau Empire and Capital City Weekly’s Alaska Press Club awards for 2018:<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Alex McCarthy<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Best General News Reporting (Print-Large), third place: “Doing<\/a> the Dip: Polar Bear Dip gets 2018 off to a chilling, thrilling <\/a>start<\/a>”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Best Breaking News Story (Print-Small, Print-Large), third place: “Pet<\/a> cremator cited for leaving dead animals out, attracting <\/a>bears<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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“Dead pets, marauding bears, and a local reporter’s serendipitous news break. This is an ‘only in Alaska’ story.”<\/em> — Judge’s comment<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t

Best Culture Reporting (Print-Large), third place: “Alaska’s<\/a> petroglyphs & lessons that span an ocean: Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians learn from each other on environmental <\/a>topics<\/a>”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Michael Penn<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Best Feature Photo (Large) (Television, Radio, Print-Large), first place: “Polar Dip”<\/p>\n

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“A great layering of human reaction from a yearly event. Nicely done in selecting a frame with a variety of people and expressions in it.”<\/em> — Judge’s comment<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t

Best Sports Photo (Large) (Television, Radio, Print-Large), first place: “Basketball”<\/p>\n

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“Liked the wave of players diving for the ball. This more unusual moment sent it to the top.” <\/em>— Judge’s comment<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t

Ben Hohenstatt<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Best Headline Writing (Television, Radio, Print-Large), second place: “5 Headlines by Ben Hohenstatt”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Here are the five headlines:

  1. The life of brine: Fermentation 101 spreads passion for fermented foods<\/a><\/li>
  2. Gingerbread raises dough for nonprofits<\/a><\/li>
  3. Hope uke like jamming too<\/a><\/li>
  4. Simple as 1-2-3: 3 school board candidates fill 3 openings<\/a><\/li>
  5. Train-ing day at Juneau-Douglas City Museum<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

    Angelo Saggiomo<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

    Best Page Layout & Design (Print-Small, Print-Large), third place: “Whale Worth the Wait”<\/p>\n

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    See our award-winning work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":47728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-47727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47727"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=47727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}