The Syracuse Press Club has announced the recipients of this year’s Syracuse Press Club Professional Recognition Awards. Attached is a scrambled list of the winners. 1st and 2nd place winners will be announced at the SPC Professional Recognition Award Dinner.
The SPC would like to thank all for entering their 39th annual contest. The entries were judged by volunteers from press clubs around the country, who spent more than a month poring over the best journalism Central New York had to offer in order to select the winners.
You can join the Syracuse Press Club at their awards banquet on Saturday, May 6, at Drumlins Country Club. At the dinner they’ll also celebrate SPC “Club Award” winners: Best Newcomer, Professional Standards, Best News Source and Scholarship winner, as well as the latest addition to our Wall of Distinction. The SPC will be announcing those winners soon. To reserve a table, visit syracusepressclub.org by May 3. Congratulations to all of the winners!
ONLINE JOURNALISM CATEGORY
MULTIMEDIA STORY
cnycentral.com, Matt Mulcahy and Matt Landers, “Metro Fence investigation”
syracuse,com, Marnie Eisenstadt and Mike Dupras, “End of Genius: As Scott Keane drank himself to death, friends refused to let go”
BREAKING NEWS
urbancny.com, Kenneth Jackson, “Onondaga County Executive Mahoney Has Had Enough of Syracuse Mayor Miner”
cnycentral, Staff, “The search for Baby Maddox”
NEWS WEBSITE
auburnpub.com, Robert Harding and staff
TWCnews.com, Tim Robertson
BLOG
auburnpub.com, Robert Harding, “Eye on NY”
urbancny.com, Kenneth Jackson, “Ken’s Blog “The Hall Monitor”
The Syracuse Press Club has announced the recipients of this year’s Syracuse Press Club Professional Recognition Awards.*
Attached is a scrambled, full list of the winners.*
2016 categories
RADIO
NEWS FEATURE
WRVO-FM, Ellen Abbott, “Farmers try to find ways to deal with more severe weather”
WAER-FM, Chris Bolt, “Heroin and Drug Abuse as a Congressional Campaign Issue: New York District 24”
“HUMAN INTEREST” FEATURE
WAER-FM, Chris Bolt, “Syracuse Jazzfest Turns 34: Decades of Bringing Music and People
Together”
WAER-FM, Scott Willis, “Bikes for Peace: Pop-up Bike Shop in Park with Violent Past”
SPORTS STORY
WAER-FM, Jared Barton, “The Reformation of the Big East”
WAER-FM, Dan Silverman, “Legacy of Pearl Washington & Syracuse Basketball”
SPORTS SHOW
WAER-FM, Marco Socci, Michael Tricarico, Jared Barton and Sean Salisbury, “Countdown to Kickoff: Syracuse vs. Virgina”
WAER-FM, William Wheeler, Chris Polera, Andrew Carter, Noah Wolfe, “WAER’s Sportsnight Reflects on the World Series”
SPECIAL PROGRAM
WRVO-FM, Grant Reeher, Jason Smith, Catherine Loper, “Katko, Deacon hold first debate for 24th Congressional District on the Campell Conversations”
WRVO-FM, Lorraine Rapp, Linda Lowen, Leah Landry and Catherine Loper, “Take Care: Dental Floss & Foods that Lower Blood Pressure”
DAILY PRINT MEDIA
INVESTIGATIVE STORY / SERIES
The Cortland Standard, Todd R. McAdam and Tyrone L. Heppard, “Fluoride: Public Health vs. Private Choice”
The Citizen, Greg Mason, “Auburn police chief’s retirement payout”
NEWS FEATURE / SERIES
The Palladium Times, Benjamin Kail, Seth Wallace and Ryan Franklin, “Oswego mayor’s ethics board proposal at odds with state norms”
The Cortland Standard, Todd R. McAdam, “School Lunch: Balancing the Books and the Calories”
HUMAN INTEREST FEATURE / SERIES
The Cortland Standard, Todd R. McAdam, “The day the war hit home”
The Cortland Standard, Nick Graziano, “Downtown Cortland becomes hub for new ‘Pokemon Go’ game”
NON-DAILY PRINT MEDIA
INVESTIGATIVE STORY / SERIES
West Onondaga County Journal, Ellen Leahy, “Taking care of Chris Roy”
The Stand, Ashley McBride, “High utility builds”
NEWS FEATURE / SERIES
West Onondaga County Journal, Ellen Leahy, “War torn: A refugee family’s story”
The Stand, Ashley Kang and Rachel George, “Neighborhood trauma”
“HUMAN INTEREST” FEATURE
The Stand, Ryan Raigrodski and Ashley Kang, “Finding Purpose: We Rise Above the Streets distributes needed meals to homeless”
New York Horse Magazine, Renee Gadoua, Katie Navarra, Margaret McCormick, “The Healing Horse”
SPORTS STORY
Syracuse New Times, Matt Michael, “SNT sports stories”
New York Horse Magazine, Bill Flynn, Glenye Cain Oakford, Janis Barth, “3 legends”
SPECIAL INTEREST PRINT MEDIA
MAGAZINE
New York Horse Magazine, Janis Barth and Darren Sanefski
Welding and Gases Today, staff
ALL PRINT
COLUMN
The Citizen, Todd R. McAdam, “A tale of two sausages”
The Buffalo News, Sean Kirst, “Flying the flag, for freedom and love”
CRITIQUE
The Citizen, David Wilcox, “Why ‘Tom Clancy’s The Division’ is Donald Trump’s dream game”
Syracuse.com, Katrina Tulloch, “Jekyll and Hyde in glitter: Two Keshas emerge at short, sticky NYS Fair concert”
EDITORIAL
The Citizen, Mike Down, “Face hazing with dialogue, not silence”
The Reporter, Rabbi Rachel Esserman, “Opinion or fact”
FEATURE PHOTO
Eagle Star-Review, Herm Card, “Big Duck in town… and some smaller admirers”
Syracuse New Times, Michael Davis, “Air show selfie”
PHOTO ESSAY
Syracuse New Times, Michael Davis, “Peace and perspective underscore protest marches”
New York Horse Magazine, Michael Davis, “The Artful Horse: Saratoga”
SPORTS PHOTO
New York Horse Magazine, Megan Stapley, “Height of perfection”
Syracuse New Times, Michael Davis, “Malachi Richardson”
SCENIC PHOTO
New York Horse Magazine, Wells Horton, “September 3 – Woodland Pond”
Syracuse New Times, Michael Davis, “Fall foliage”
PORTRAIT
New York Horse Magazine, Jessica Bowman, “Unbowed.”
The Citizen, Kevin Rivoli, “Football MVP”
FRONT PAGE DESIGN
Syracuse New Times, Greg Minix
Syracuse New Times, Greg Minix
GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION
Eagle Star Review, Sarah Hall, “Election 2016”
Syracuse New Times, Greg Minix, “SNT Arts Issue Cover”
TELEVISION
SPOT NEWS
CNY Central, Staff, “Baby Maddox found”
TWC News, Staff, “Six dead in Martin Street fire”
INVESTIGATIVE STORY
WSYR TV, “Your Stories: Pool scammer, Aug. 11, 2016, Oct. 21, 2016”
CNY Central, Matt Mulcahy and Matt Landers, “Metro Fence investigation”
NEWS FEATURE
WWNY TV, Diane Rutherford and Mae Roberts, “The refugee idea”
WSYR TV, Jeff Kulikowsky, Mark Folsom and Scott Irving, “Made in Central New York: Various Dates”
“HUMAN INTEREST” FEATURE
CNY Central, Niko Tamurian, “Winning the battle: The coach that couldn’t give up”
WWNY TV, Patrick Malowski, “All in the family”
SPORTS STORY
WSYR-TV, Steve Infanti, “Jack Sheridan story, May 13, 2016”
WSYR-TV, Steve Infanti, “Breanna Stewart, Senior Night: February, 29, 2016”
SPORTS SHOW
TWC News, Staff, “First and Ten, October 14, 2016”
TWC News, Staff, “Cuse Nation: Babers on board”
REGULARLY SCHEDULED SPORTSCAST
CNY Central, Niko Tamurian, Matt Hauswirth and Justin Page, “Rivalry heartbreak in Manhattan”
CNY Central, Niko Tamurian, “Marsh’s amazing return”
REGULARLY SCHEDULED LOCAL NEWSCAST
TWC News, Staff, “Time Warner Cable News All Evening at 5 – November 16, 2016”
WKTV, Jason Powles, Katrina Smith and WKTV Staff, , “Newschannel 2 at Noon – 12/16/16”
BEST WEATHERCAST
CNY Central, Peter Hall, “Morning weathercast from November 21st, 2016 – Big snowstorm”
WKTV, Jill Reale, “Morning Weather – December 26, 2016”
SPECIAL PROGRAM
WSYR-TV, Carrie Lazarus, Tim Fox and Shawn Wayson, “Carrie Lazarus Presents: Extraordinary People, Places and Things: Hotel Syracuse June 21, 2016”
WSYR-TV, Staff, “Carrie Lazarus Presents: Extraordinary People, Places and Things: LIVE December 21, 2016”
VIDEO JOURNALISM
TWC News, Brian Dwyer
TWC News, Tom Walters
PHOTO ESSAY
TWC News, Thomas Walters, “A Dickens Christmas”
TWC News, Thomas Walters, “The Regional Market”
ONLINE JOURNALISM CATEGORY
MULTIMEDIA STORY
cnycentral.com, Matt Mulcahy and Matt Landers, “Metro Fence investigation”
syracuse,com, Marnie Eisenstadt and Mike Dupras, “End of Genius: As Scott Keane drank himself to death, friends refused to let go”
BREAKING NEWS
urbancny.com, Kenneth Jackson, “Onondaga County Executive Mahoney Has Had Enough of Syracuse Mayor Miner”
cnycentral, Staff, “The search for Baby Maddox”
NEWS WEBSITE
auburnpub.com, Robert Harding and staff
TWCnews.com, Tim Robertson
BLOG
auburnpub.com, Robert Harding, “Eye on NY”
urbancny.com, Kenneth Jackson, “Ken’s Blog “The Hall Monitor”
Student Contest
BEST RADIO SPORTS STORY
NCC News, Tim Scott, “Rally Time for the National Pastime: How Declining Numbers Hurt Youth Baseball”
NCC News, Cole Zimmerman, “Breaking Barriers: How the Disabled Community Plays Hockey”
BEST RADIO NEWS STORY
92 WICB, Kelli Kyle and Elena Piech, “Media Analysis: When big city media cover small town tragedy”
92 WICB, Kelli Kyle, Amanda Chin, Madeline Lester and Peter Champelli, “Ithaca community responds to national election results”
BEST RADIO FEATURE STORY
92 WICB, Kelli Kyle and Aaron Zufall, “Wizarding Weekend casts a spell over Ithaca”
NCC News, Joe Bloss, “The Lost Tapes: How the Cassette Found Its Way Back”
BEST PRINT FEATURE STORY
Utica College, Ben Mehic, “Reality of mental illness”
Utica College, James McClendon, “Greg Roberts: Forever a pioneer.”
BEST TELEVISION SPORTS STORY
NCC News, Jonathan Gordon, “Syracuse Goalie Overcomes Setback to Become a Star”
Oswego Now, Morgan Rumpf, “Oswego’s Alex Botten enters 100 point club”
BEST TELEVISION NEWS STORY
NCC News, Nick Papantonis, “Drug ring busted”
NCC News, Brooke Glatz, “Remembrance Scholar Jamie Weiss Profile”
BEST TELEVISION FEATURE STORY
NCC News, Meghan Mistry, “The Bottle Man” Dedicates His Life to Breast Cancer Fundraising”
NCC News, Nick Papantonis, “Despite area trend, local manufacturer expands”
BEST MULTIMEDIA STORY
NCC News, Broadcast Journalism Masters Students 2016-17, “Syracuse Black Lives Matter Protest Stays Peaceful”
The Newshouse, The Dome 35 Team, “Dome 35: The Legend and Future of Syracuse’s Carrier Dome”
