The Hollister Free Lance and Weekend Pinnacle won a total of
seven awards in the annual California Newspaper Publishers
Association Better Newspapers Contest.
The Hollister Free Lance and Weekend Pinnacle won a total of seven awards in the annual California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Contest.
The 2010 winners were announced Saturday at a conference in Los Angeles. The contest honors daily and weekly newspapers throughout the state.
This year, the Free Lance won five awards and the Pinnacle won two.
The Free Lance competed against other weekly newspapers with a circulation of 4,300 and under. It won in the following categories:
First Place in Investigative or Enterprise Reporting, for Connor Ramey, Kollin Kosmicki and Marty Richman’s stories on the 2010 San Benito County sheriff’s race
First Place in Breaking News, for coverage of the Pentagon shooting involving a Hollister resident, by Adam Breen, Melissa Flores, Andrew Matheson, Lora Schraft and Kosmicki
First Place in the Sports Photo category, for Nick Lovejoy’s coverage of Baler sports
Second Place in the Sports Photo category, also for Lovejoy’s coverage of local sports
Second Place in Online Breaking News (competing against all weeklies) for coverage of the Pentagon shooting involving a Hollister resident, by Breen, Flores, Matheson, Schraft and Kosmicki
The Pinnacle competed against other weekly newspapers with a circulation of 11,001 to 25,000. It won in the following categories:
Second Place for a Breaking News Photo by Lovejoy while covering the Eagle Recycling fire
Second Place for a Sports Photo by Lovejoy involving cross country
Others in the South Valley Newspaper Group winning awards were the Gilroy Dispatch, which won three for page layout, editorial pages and a photo essay, and the Morgan Hill Times, taking home one for investigative reporting.
