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The Las Vegas Review-Journal was named the state’s champion paper and champion quality website and won apical idiosyncratic honors astatine the Nevada Press Foundation Awards of Excellence meal Saturday nighttime successful Reno.
The Review-Journal’s honors included outstanding journalist, outstanding ocular writer and outstanding graphic designer, and first-place wins for investigative story, concern spot quality story, amusement diagnostic and quality story, editorial writing, champion peculiar lawsuit and champion video programme oregon bid for the weekday streaming newscast “7@7.”
The newspaper, its sister publications and the quarterly rjmagazine collected much than 70 awards successful full for journalism and advertizing produced betwixt April 1, 2020, and March 31. The contention is presented annually by the Nevada Press Association. This twelvemonth it was judged by members of the Montana Newspaper Association.
“We’re grateful the contention judges rewarded the Review-Journal’s exceptional unit for its important, impactful work,” Executive Editor Glenn Cook said.
The Review-Journal won 43 full awards, including 20 first-place finishes. Rjmagazine was recognized 9 times.
The Boulder City Review, which was named champion paper successful the agrarian category, besides won 9 awards.
The Pahrump Valley Times, which was named champion quality website successful the agrarian category, took location 10 awards. And the Tonopah Times-Bonanza was recognized 3 times.
Top journalists
Review-Journal newsman Rio Lacanlale, who was awarded writer of merit past year, was named the state’s Outstanding Journalist for a portfolio of enactment that revisited the communicative of Charles Bush, a 39-year-old Black antheral choked to decease by Las Vegas constabulary successful 1990, and elaborate the Metropolitan Police Department’s determination to not summation the decease toll successful the Las Vegas wide shooting aft 2 victims died much than 2 years aft the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre killed 58.
The time Lacanlale’s communicative was published, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo announced the shooting’s authoritative decease toll would summation to 60.
Lacanlale besides reported connected a clang that killed 5 cyclists connected a agelong of road adjacent Searchlight erstwhile a container motortruck plowed into the group, and she told the relationship of an 11-hour transgression spree spanning 2 states that Clark County’s territory lawyer described arsenic “a Bonnie and Clyde situation.”
“What tipped the equilibrium successful Rio Lacanlale’s favour was the grade she was consenting to spell to successful bid to get the afloat story,” the judges wrote. Of her reporting connected the delayed deaths of Las Vegas shooting victims, the judges wrote: “In presumption of work to our industry, to proceed pursuing a communicative — not beating it to decease but bringing retired caller facets of value to the societal operation we enactment wrong — 3 years is beauteous amazing.”
Photographer Benjamin Hager was named Outstanding Visual Journalist for a assemblage of enactment that included portraits of Las Vegas Strip entertainers.
Hager, who was recognized a full of 7 times, besides took location first-place awards for champion sports photograph and photograph effort oregon gallery.
Judges said Hager was “the stand-out successful a class with a batch of large entries and pugnacious competition. The deciding factors included creativity, angles and ocular elements brought to the photos portion demonstrating the scope of the lensman from arts to hard quality to assemblage coverage.”
Tony Morales won outstanding graphic decorator for a portfolio that included peculiar presentations connected the opening of Allegiant Stadium and Circa successful downtown Las Vegas.
“The engaging integer elements are what acceptable this introduction isolated successful a tract of superb work. Field of Dreams graphic utilized video, photos, infographics and, of course, words to contiguous a crisp informative visual,” the judges wrote.
More first-place recognition
Reporter Art Kane produced the champion investigative story, chronicling however child extortion workers had failed a 13-year-old boy contempt documenting his household troubles for a decade. The boy, Aaron Jones, was recovered dormant nether rocks successful the desert, and his begetter and stepmother were indicted connected suspicion of execution aft allegations of horrific abuse.
Kane’s communicative besides highlighted that dozens of kid deaths successful Clark County implicit a seven-year play mightiness person been prevented by kid extortion workers.
“Excellent investigative usage of nationalist and leaked confidential records to archer the larger communicative of bureaucratic incompetence and inadequate laws,” the judges wrote.
Reporter Subrina Hudson was awarded champion concern spot quality communicative for detailing Nevada gig workers’ vexation with unemployment strategy notifications. Her communicative examined the rocky rollout for the state’s caller webpage that allowed gig workers, contractors and the self-employed to entree the unemployment payment system.
Reporter Christopher Lawrence received the grant for champion amusement quality communicative for his portion that elaborate however casinos did not person modular protocol for checking the temperatures of their customers to defender against the dispersed of the coronavirus.
Lawrence besides won the grant for champion amusement diagnostic communicative for a bid detailing 100 acts of kindness made by Las Vegans during the pandemic. Some of the worldly was based connected reporting passim the twelvemonth by aggregate Review-Journal reporters including Janna Karel, Madelon Hynes and Jason Bracelin.
Editorial leafage exertion John Kerr won archetypal spot for editorial writing, and the Review-Journal’s editorial page was named the champion successful the state.
“No-holds-barred penning connected topics of section involvement made this tops for the category,” the judges wrote of Kerr’s editorials. “The editorials were the benignant that request readership from those who hold and disagree.”
The Review-Journal besides won archetypal spot for wide plan and its peculiar conception connected the completion of Allegiant Stadium.
Video
The Review-Journal’s caller weekday streaming newscast, “7@7,” was recognized arsenic the champion video programme oregon series. The seven-minute program, which drops astatine 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., was launched this twelvemonth by Jim Prather, the Review-Journal’s enforcement manager of programming, and the Review-Journal’s video team: Renee Summerour, Jenn Auh, Cassie Soto, James Schaeffer, Le’Andre Fox, Heidi Fang, Larry Mir, Janet Murphy, Paul Pearson, Nathan Asselin, Angus Kelly, Michael Quine, Kelsey Kendall, Neb Solomon and Elliot Bauman.
“Looks similar a large workplace TV broadcast,” the contention judges said of the program.
Advertising awards
Chase Rankin, the Review-Journal’s elder vice president for income and marketing, won champion advertizing innovation for “7@7” sponsorships, and Tony Morales collected archetypal spot for colour people advertisement for a “7@7” promotion. Angie Gutting won champion in-house advertizing for New Homes Guide.
Marketing Director Wanda Blair, Event Marketing Director Melissa McCabe and Rankin won champion peculiar lawsuit for a virtual nutrient and cocktail series.
“This is simply a genuinely large idea: Asking section chefs and restaurateurs to hole authentic meals and teach.
It combines the emotion of food, emotion of cooking, authentic tastes with experts. This is simply a large format during the pandemic and a mode to reinvent community,” the judges wrote.
Contact Shea Johnson astatine sjohnson@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0272.
List of Winners
First Place Winners:
Outstanding Journalist: Rio Lacanlale
Outstanding Visual Journalist: Benjamin Hager
Outstanding Graphic Designer: Tony Morales
Advertising Innovation: Chase Rankin – 7@7, 7-Minute Newscast
Business Spot News Story: Subrina Hudson – Nevada’s gig idiosyncratic unemployment-filing tract has bumpy start
Color Print Ad: Tony Morales – Las Vegas Review-Journal – 7@7 Spadea
Editorial Page: John Kerr – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Editorial Writing: John Kerr – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Entertainment Feature Story: Las Vegas Review-Journal – 100 acts of kindness: Southern Nevada stepped up to help
Entertainment News Story: Christopher Lawrence – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Casinos person nary modular protocol for somesthesia checks
Feature Photo: Rachel Aston – rjmagazine – Kiss astatine Gold Strike Hot Springs
General Excellence: Las Vegas Review-Journal
General Online Excellence: Las Vegas Review-Journal
General Online Excellence: rjmagazine
In-House Advertising: Angie Gutting – Las Vegas Review-Journal – New Homes Guide Media Kit
Investigative Story: Art Kane – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Aaron Jones: ‘Recipe for disaster’
Multiple Photo Essay oregon Gallery: Benjamin Hager – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Scintillating Sin City Performers
Non-Staff Story: John M. Glionna – rjmagazine – One successful 10 million
Overall Design: Las Vegas Review-Journal
Special Event: Wanda Blair, Melissa McCabe, Chase Rankin – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Virtual Food and Cocktail Series
Special Section (Editorial): Las Vegas Review-Journal – Allegiant Stadium
Sports Photo: Benjamin Hager – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Acrobatic drawback astatine Arrowhead Stadium
Video Program oregon Series: Las Vegas Review-Journal – 7@7 Daily News Show
Second Place Winners:
Color Print Ad: David Sly – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Vegas Nation Magazine Ad
Digital Ad: Malachi Schlink, David Memmott – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Kroil
Explanatory Journalism: Gary Martin – Las Vegas Review-Journal – West Virginia shows Nevada, different states, the mode connected COVID vaccines
Feature Photo: Benjamin Hager – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Siberian Huskies connected the run
Feature Photo: Rachel Aston – rjmagazine – In sickness and successful health
Freedom of the Press: Michael Scott Davidson, Arthur Kane, Review-Journal Editorial Board – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Headline Writing: Rhonda Prast – Las Vegas Review-Journal
In-House Advertising: Olivia Kuntz, Malachi Schlink – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Aging Wellness
Investigative Story: Art Kane, Rachel Crosby, Michael Scott Davidson – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Alpine Fire
Local Sports Column: Ed Graney – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Non-Staff Story: John M. Glionna – rjmagazine – A twist of fate: Cirque performers
Page One Design/Cover Design: Mark Antonuccio – rjmagazine
Page One Design/Cover Design: LeeAnn Elias – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Portrait: Benjamin Hager – A Twist of Fate
Third Place Winners:
Color Print Ad: Jorge Betancourt, David Sly, Malachi Schlink – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Air Supply Magazine Ad
Editorial Writing: Victor Joecks – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Entertainment Feature Story: Christopher Lawrence – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Looking backmost astatine ‘Casino’
Entertainment News Story: Heidi Knapp Rinella, Al Mancini – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Restaurants reopen, find nary unreserved for caller mean successful Las Vegas
Feature Writing: Janna Karel – rjmagazine – Paddler’s paradise … Black Canyon
General Excellence: rjmagazine
Headline Writing: Brian Sandford – Las Vegas Review-Journal
In-House Advertising: Las Vegas Review-Journal – Golden Knights Season Preview Section Ad
Local Column: Mick Akers – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Road Warrior
News Photo Coverage: Benjamin Hager, L.E. Baskow, Chase Stevens – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Lonely Las Vegas Strip
Non-Staff Story: John M. Glionna – rjmagazine – Escaramuza riders sphere portion of agrarian Latino culture
Special Event: Melissa McCabe, Wanda Blair, Chase Rankin – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Academic Excellence Awards
Sports Feature Writing: Sam Gordon – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Cutmen clasp accommodation to Top Rank bubble astatine MGM Grand
Sports Photo: Benjamin Hager – Las Vegas Review-Journal – Raiders wide opening hurdle
Video Program oregon Series: Las Vegas Review-Journal – Vegas Nation Gameday
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