A | B | C | D | E | F | G | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2020 S.C. PRESS ASSOCIATION NEWS CONTEST RESULTS | ||||||
2 | *If you cannot scroll past page 1, or you are having trouble with this shared spreadsheet, open this document as an HTML file: https://bit.ly/2O1peRc | ||||||
3 | 2020 News Contest Winners | ||||||
4 | SCPA's Virtual Awards will be held Oct. 27-29, 2021. Visit scpress.org for schedule and more info. Secret awards, cash prizes and the President’s Awards for Excellence will be announced during the Virtual Awards. Plaques and certificates are being shipped Oct. 25-29, 2021, via USPS Priority Mail. | ||||||
5 | Division | # | Contest | Place | Newspaper | Winner | Headline |
6 | Open Division | 1 | Judson Chapman Award | First | The Post and Courier | Tony Bartelme | Troll Hunters |
7 | Open Division | 1 | Judson Chapman Award | Second | The Post and Courier | Tony Bartelme | Ghost Bird |
8 | Open Division | 1 | Judson Chapman Award | Third | The Post and Courier | Joseph Cranney | South Carolina Magistrates |
9 | Open Division | 2 | Cartoon | First | Charleston City Paper | Robert Ariail | Nullification; Peckerwoods; Lizard |
10 | Open Division | 2 | Cartoon | Second | Index-Journal | Mike Beckom | Murder hornets; Small business survivors; Palace de Pelosi |
11 | Open Division | 2 | Cartoon | Third | Charleston City Paper | Steve Stegelin | Symptomatic; Department of Dead-ucation; Rounding the Curve |
12 | Open Division | 3 | Informational Graphic | First | The Post and Courier | Bryan Brussee | 13 Hours, 7 1/2 Miles |
13 | Open Division | 3 | Informational Graphic | Second | The Post and Courier | Chad Dunbar | 1st District election |
14 | Open Division | 3 | Informational Graphic | Third | The Lancaster News | Athena Redmond | Closings, reopenings and case counts |
15 | Open Division | 4 | Innovation | First | Greenville News | Lillia Callum-Penso and Dave Hennigan | Greenville Fine Arts Center benefits from At the Table Dinner with Greenville musicians; Greenville News At the Table event highlights ex-pro athletes, benefits Greenville YMCA; Bretton Cameron speaks at Greenville News Storytellers event |
16 | Open Division | 4 | Innovation | Second | The Post and Courier | Hanna Raskin | These 9 restaurants are the safest places to eat in Charleston area, our food critic says. |
17 | Open Division | 4 | Innovation | Third | The State | Staff | Breaking Point: Tackling Systemic Racism in South Carolina |
18 | All Daily Division | 5 | Montgomery Shurr FOI Award | First | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
19 | All Daily Division | 5 | Montgomery Shurr FOI Award | Honorable Mention | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
20 | All Weekly Division | 5 | Montgomery Shurr FOI Award | First | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
21 | All Weekly Division | 5 | Montgomery Shurr FOI Award | Honorable Mention | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
22 | All Daily Division | 6 | Award for Assertive Journalism | First | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
23 | All Weekly Division | 6 | Award for Assertive Journalism | First | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
24 | All Weekly Division | 6 | Award for Assertive Journalism | Honorable Mention | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
25 | All Daily Division | 7 | Journalist of the Year | First | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
26 | All Weekly Division | 7 | Journalist of the Year | First | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
27 | All Daily Division | 8 | Photojournalist of the Year | First | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
28 | All Weekly Division | 8 | Photojournalist of the Year | First | Not announced until Annual Meeting | ||
29 | All Daily Division | 9 | Election and Political Coverage | First | The State | Staff | |
30 | All Daily Division | 9 | Election and Political Coverage | Second | The Post and Courier | Staff | |
31 | All Weekly Division | 9 | Election and Political Coverage | First | The Gaffney Ledger | Staff | |
32 | All Weekly Division | 9 | Election and Political Coverage | Second | The Lancaster News | Staff | |
33 | All Weekly Division | 9 | Election and Political Coverage | Third | The Daniel Island News | Elizabeth Horton, Elizabeth Bush and Boots Gifford | Your Guide to Local Elections |
34 | Open Division | 10 | Editorial or Column in Support of FOI and Open Government Issues | First | Myrtle Beach Herald | Charles D. Perry | All public meetings must be open to the public |
35 | Open Division | 10 | Editorial or Column in Support of FOI and Open Government Issues | Second | The Post and Courier | Cindi Ross Scoppe | Now that a judge has spoken, will SC Commerce Department finally come clean? |
36 | Open Division | 10 | Editorial or Column in Support of FOI and Open Government Issues | Third | The News & Reporter | Travis Jenkins | Learning a lesson |
37 | All Daily Division | 11 | E.A. Ramsaur Award for Editorial Writing | First | The Post and Courier | Cindi Ross Scoppe | SC police have tools to shut down super-spreader events. It's time to use them; Wearing a mask doesn’t make it OK to be a jerk. Neither does not wearing one; SC law lets trigger-happy citizens go looking for people to kill. Repeal it |
38 | All Daily Division | 11 | E.A. Ramsaur Award for Editorial Writing | Second | The Journal, Seneca | Staff | Money (and water) on the ground; A cabin that needs to move; Is Westminster Humpty Dumpty? |
39 | All Daily Division | 11 | E.A. Ramsaur Award for Editorial Writing | Third | The Island Packet | David Lauderdale | Month of death: Beaufort County visitors, we love you but not in a pandemic; It is time to scrub ‘plantation’ from our communities, once and for all; Hilton Head’s mayor turns zookeeper while medical world pleads for masking |
40 | All Weekly Division | 11 | Editorial Writing | First | Myrtle Beach Herald | Charles D. Perry | City needs to take responsibility; County council missing target on shooting regulations; All public meetings must be open to the public |
41 | All Weekly Division | 11 | Editorial Writing | Second | Charleston City Paper | Editorial Board | McMaster's shameful pandemic pillaging of public schools; We must reject systemic racism and injustice throughout our culture; In SC, gutless leaders are asleep at the wheel without a plan for recovery |
42 | All Weekly Division | 11 | Editorial Writing | Third | The News & Reporter | Travis Jenkins | Property Purchase; One More Request; Learning a Lesson |
43 | All Weekly Division | 12 | Obituary | First | The Lancaster News | Gregory A. Summers | Dr. Boykin dies at 97 |
44 | All Weekly Division | 12 | Obituary | Second | Pickens County Courier | Jason Evans | Community mourns Wyche's loss |
45 | All Weekly Division | 12 | Obituary | Third | Union County News | Anna Brown | Ralph Greer leaves a legacy of reporting the news |
46 | Division A: Large Dailies | 12 | Obituary | First | The State | Bristow Marchant | Columbia couple did ‘everything’ to avoid coronavirus. They died just hours apart |
47 | Division A: Large Dailies | 12 | Obituary | Second | The State | John Monk | Edward Sloan, SC citizen watchdog who fought government Goliaths and won, dies at 91 |
48 | Division A: Large Dailies | 12 | Obituary | Third | The Post and Courier | Maura Hogan | Remembering George Ramsay, a Charleston man who shifted perceptions of special needs |
49 | Division B: Mid-sized Dailies | 12 | Obituary | First | The Sun News | Alex Lang | He heard an SC officer was shot so he messaged his son: ‘You Good?’ It went unanswered. |
50 | Division B: Mid-sized Dailies | 12 | Obituary | Second | The Sun News | Alex Lang | ‘It just ravaged his lungs’: Conway, SC, family shares details of coronavirus death |
51 | Division B: Mid-sized Dailies | 12 | Obituary | Third | The Island Packet | David Lauderdale | ‘But this is home’: Hilton Head activist, native Perry White dies Wednesday at age 85 |
52 | Division C: Small Dailies | 12 | Obituary | First | The Sumter Item | Kayla Green | Deputy killed in action remembered by friends, colleagues across Sumter |
53 | Division C: Small Dailies | 12 | Obituary | Second | The Sumter Item | Kayla Green | Family finds solace in Sumter native’s impact after his death from virus |
54 | Division C: Small Dailies | 12 | Obituary | Third | Aiken Standard | Landon Stamper | Hink Salley remembered as an ‘Aiken treasure’ |
55 | Open Division | 13 | Review Portfolio | First | The Post and Courier | Hanna Raskin | With curbside menu, one of downtown Charleston’s priciest steakhouses puts dinner in reach; Our critic dined in a downtown Charleston restaurant to see if it’s worth it for the wary; If you’re done with Palmetto Cheese, here are best pimento cheeses in Charleston groceries |
56 | Open Division | 13 | Review Portfolio | Second | The Post and Courier Columbia/Free Times | August Krickel | Columbia production embraces the raw emotions of Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar; Columbia’s Town Theatre offers hit-and-miss parody with Baskerville; USC’s Eurydice is a meaningful journey through mortality — and what’s beyond |
57 | Open Division | 13 | Review Portfolio | Third | The Post and Courier | Maura Hogan | For artist Fletcher Williams III, a white picket fence is a national divide; A 6-year-old weighs in on the feel-good fun of Charleston Stage’s ‘Elf’; A 2020 view on addiction and redemption from two theatrical works |
58 | All Daily Division | 14 | Health Beat Reporting | First | The Post and Courier | Nick Masuda | |
59 | All Daily Division | 14 | Health Beat Reporting | Second | The Post and Courier | Lauren Sausser | 33-year-old Charleston man needed a second stem cell transplant. He hopes this one works; Data debunks 2017 Mount Pleasant cancer cluster scare; Meet 19 hospital heroes fighting on the front line of the coronavirus crisis in SC |
60 | All Daily Division | 14 | Health Beat Reporting | Third | The Post and Courier | Mary Katherine Wildeman | He died when he got the wrong lungs. It wasn’t the only organ error in SC that day; The Conway hospital sues its patients more than any other hospital in SC; Disabled workers in SC roll the dice when drawing judges to decide their benefits |
61 | All Weekly Division | 14 | Health Beat Reporting | First | The Island News | Mindy Lucas | |
62 | All Weekly Division | 14 | Health Beat Reporting | Second | The Daniel Island News | Elizabeth Bush | The doctor is in; Those in substance abuse recovery adapt; Creative healing |
63 | All Weekly Division | 14 | Health Beat Reporting | Third | The News & Reporter | Brian Garner | A cancer support with weights; The doctor (or FNP) will see you now; Hospital Association 'trucks' in some appreciation for nurses |
64 | All Daily Division | 15 | Faith Beat Reporting | First | The Post and Courier | Jennifer Berry Hawes | |
65 | All Daily Division | 15 | Faith Beat Reporting | Second | Greenville News | Mike Ellis | |
66 | All Daily Division | 15 | Faith Beat Reporting | Third | The Post and Courier | Rickey Ciapha Dennis Jr. | |
67 | All Weekly Division | 15 | Faith Beat Reporting | First | The Gaffney Ledger | Abbie Sossamon | But what does it all mean?; Founder of Parson's Pantry has walked his last mile on Earth; Best friends have been making beautiful music together for 42 years |
68 | All Weekly Division | 15 | Faith Beat Reporting | Second | The Daniel Island News | Elizabeth Bush | Take what you need, give what you can; Two Rivers Church hosts anti-racist week; From the Middle East to the Cainhoy Peninsula |
69 | All Weekly Division | 15 | Faith Beat Reporting | Third | The Lancaster News | Mac Banks | |
70 | All Daily Division | 16 | Sports Beat Reporting | First | The Post and Courier | Joshua Needelman | Clemson |
71 | All Daily Division | 16 | Sports Beat Reporting | Second | Herald-Journal | Jed Blackwell | |
72 | All Daily Division | 16 | Sports Beat Reporting | Third | The Post and Courier | David Cloninger | University of South Carolina Athletics |
73 | All Weekly Division | 16 | Sports Beat Reporting | First | Myrtle Beach Herald | Ian Guerin | GRIDIRON GAINS: Why Horry County’s football coaches are more experienced and better paid than ever before; More questions than answers: High school sports in land of unknown; Crisis mode? Basketball scheduling system causing problems for already taxed officials |
74 | All Weekly Division | 16 | Sports Beat Reporting | Second | Coastal Observer | Chris Sokoloski | Banner day ends with 1st title; Under the stars: 49 teams, 11 fields, 16 hours; Gia Leone sets school record |
75 | All Weekly Division | 16 | Sports Beat Reporting | Third | Marion Star & Mullins Enterprise | Naeem McFadden | Marion rolls past Mullins 73-56; Marion cruises to 34-0 win over rival Mullins; Pee Dee Academy’s Sinclair rushes for 215 yards in 49-28 playoff win over Beaufort Academy |
76 | All Daily Division | 17 | News Headline Writing | First | Aiken Standard | Robert Blankenship | Rest assured: Local organization to provide new beds for area kids in need; Don't you be my neighbor: New apartment development yields mixed reactions; Election disinfection: Shielding voters from virus is primary priority |
77 | All Daily Division | 17 | News Headline Writing | Second | The Post and Courier | Beth Harrison | Rain bombs and a torrent of trouble in Charleston: How climate change is fueling intense storms, forcing city into nonstop battle with flooding; City slogging through massive flooding fixes: A look at progress so far on $500M in drainage projects; Palmetto rose sales still thorny issue: Not all youths in city program, and some cause problems |
78 | All Daily Division | 17 | News Headline Writing | Third | The Post and Courier | Lisa Justus | Setting sale: Virtual auction nets buyer for detained ship in Charleston Harbor; Reopening statement: Wall Street surges as traders return to NYSE floor; Harnessing safety: After horse's death, change proposed to Charleston's carriage tour rules |
79 | All Weekly Division | 17 | News Headline Writing | First | Myrtle Beach Herald | Charles D. Perry | Fishermen reeling from pandemic; Strawberry fields for now; A hard row to hoe |
80 | All Weekly Division | 17 | News Headline Writing | Second | The Gaffney Ledger | Cody Sossamon | Energy plan gets cold shoulder from school district trustees; The doctor is in; Luck runs out for brothers in Blacksburg |
81 | All Weekly Division | 17 | News Headline Writing | Third | The Island News | Mike McCombs | Takin’ it to the streets; Minimum force, maximum control; The other side of the pillow: Beaufort company shifts gears to make masks |
82 | All Daily Division | 18 | Feature Headline Writing | First | Aiken Standard | Bill Bengtson | Dads on the diamond: SRP Park hosts Father’s Day event; Long may she wave: Boy Scout troop holds flag retirement ceremony; Millbrook Baptist Church’s ‘living Christmas trees’ have deep roots |
83 | All Daily Division | 18 | Feature Headline Writing | Second | Aiken Standard | Holly Kemp | From Mexico with love: Family takes extraordinary steps to comfort coronavirus patient in Aiken; Chris Fulmer: Crafting the art of the ultimate tailgate; Joan Lacombe: Aiken's Poet Laureate is a woman of her word |
84 | All Daily Division | 18 | Feature Headline Writing | Third | The Post and Courier | Beth Harrison | Hatching a rescue plan: Early sea turtle patrols were a bit like the Wild West, but today's volunteers play vital role in what's been remarkable comeback; When times get tough, volunteers get going: Veterans, food banks, pet shelters rely on loyal helpers even more during pandemic; Wando team over the moon as NASA finalist: Students thrilled their space helmet design could someday be used in Mars mission |
85 | All Weekly Division | 18 | Feature Headline Writing | First | The Gaffney Ledger | Cody Sossamon | Is this the coolest wedding ever, or what?; He's not arrogant, but he was 'Cocky'; Wilson 'drags' his truck all over the South |
86 | All Weekly Division | 18 | Feature Headline Writing | Second | The Daniel Island News | Pamela Brownstein | Shucking good time; When life hands you Lemmon; Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto |
87 | All Weekly Division | 18 | Feature Headline Writing | Third | The News & Reporter | Travis Jenkins | Cowgirl (make)up; The COVID Commencement; Basking in the GLORY |
88 | All Daily Division | 19 | Sports Headline Writing | First | Index-Journal | Bob Simmonds | Purple Reign; Panthers prey on Christ Church; Abbeville rings Liberty's bell |
89 | All Daily Division | 19 | Sports Headline Writing | Second | The Post and Courier | Beth Harrison | No getting over it: Bridge run cancels: COVID-19 concerns spark decision on this year's race; Steelworker's dreams advance at a full gallop: Winning Berkeley owner, trainer chases horse racing passion; Kicking off a really strange football season: A fan's guide to spectacle that will unfold on college fields despite pandemic |
90 | All Daily Division | 19 | Sports Headline Writing | Third | Aiken Standard | Kyle Dawson | Trenches, turnovers key to Trojans’ title trip; Birds flew south: Orioles trained in Aiken in spring ’40; Panel punts on prep sports vote, SCHSL plan remains in place |
91 | All Weekly Division | 19 | Sports Headline Writing | First | Myrtle Beach Herald | Charles D. Perry | Speedway's final lap; Hail to the Chiefs; Gridiron gains |
92 | All Weekly Division | 19 | Sports Headline Writing | Second | The Daniel Island News | Pamela Brownstein | State meet goes swimmingly for Battling Bishops; Pickleball popularity picks up; Staying (Mc)Cool under pressure |
93 | All Weekly Division | 19 | Sports Headline Writing | Third | Laurens County Advertiser | John Clayton | More than a number for PC's Pollock; PC has zero luck against Irish; Raiders' fast start stings Green Hornets |
94 | All Daily Division | 20 | News Section or Special Edition | First | The Island Packet | Staff | The Island Packet's 50th birthday |
95 | All Daily Division | 20 | News Section or Special Edition | Second | Morning News | Staff | Salute to Veterans |
96 | All Daily Division | 20 | News Section or Special Edition | Third | Aiken Standard | Staff | 2020 Election: Aiken County Voters' Guide |
97 | All Weekly Division | 20 | News Section or Special Edition | First | The Newberry Observer | Staff | Strolling through history with...The Newberry Observer |
98 | All Weekly Division | 20 | News Section or Special Edition | Second | The Gaffney Ledger | Staff | Limestone 175 |
99 | All Weekly Division | 20 | News Section or Special Edition | Third | The Lancaster News | Staff | Honoring our Veterans |
100 | All Daily Division | 21 | Sports Section or Magazine | First | The Journal, Seneca | Zack Mauldin and Eric Sprott | Forging ahead' — 2020 college football season preview |