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New York Press Association hosts annual award ceremony in Saratoga Springs
Herald Community Newspapers took home 23 awards from the New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest at NYPA’s annual spring convention. A dozen Herald staff members attended the conference April 8 and 9 at the Gideon Putnam Resort in Saratoga Springs.
The Herald earned the most prestigious state-wide advertising award NYPA bestows: the John J. Evans Award for Advertising Excellence.
“It takes a lot of talented people, in many different departments to win first in the state in Advertising Excellence,” said Rhonda Glickman, the Herald’s vice president of sales. “The Herald has a great team. Together they made this award possible.”
For the second straight year, the Herald won the Sharon R. Fulmer Award for Community Leadership. The award, one of NYPA’s highest honors, includes a $500 prize. It is the only NYPA award that includes a cash stipend, which is to be given to a charity of the newspaper’s choice.
The award recognized the Herald’s eight-month-long series examining heroin addiction in Nassau County, which ran from January through August of 2010. The series comprised 10 articles, two editorials and an op-ed column. “It’s just an amazing feeling to have won this award for a series that was so important to us at the paper and to people across the county,” said Scott Brinton, senior editor of the Merrick and Bellmore Heralds and lead writer of the series. “We received so many phone calls and emails about the series.”
The four other writers who contributed to the series were Mike Caputo, Deirdre Krasula, Judy Rattner and Sari Zeidler. This was the ninth time in the past 12 years that the Heralds have been honored in NYPA’s Community Leadership category, including six first-place awards.
Lee Landor, editor of the Malverne/West Hempstead Herald, was recognized with a third-place award for her coverage of education. Andrew Hackmack, editor of the Valley Stream Herald, and summer intern Michelle Gil captured third place in the Best News or Feature Series category for their coverage of the flood maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and their impact on residents.
The Lynbrook/East Rockaway Herald won a first-place award for Best Front Page.
