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North Carolina Well being Information received 17 awards Thursday night time in the course of the North Carolina Press Affiliation’s annual ceremony, together with two basic excellence nods.
The press affiliation honored work printed from March 2022 to March 2023. The journalism acknowledged by the judges ranged from dogged, investigative and accountability reporting to characteristic, beat, lede and headline writing, in addition to graphics.
The entire means NC Well being Information received probably the most awards within the online-only publication class. 5 of these awards have been first-place nods, along with a second place within the prestigious Basic Excellence award for newspaper web sites competitors and second place for Basic Excellence for on-line publications.
Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, who lined Medicaid and rural well being, received 5 awards for schooling reporting and have writing — one first place, three second locations and one third place.
NC Well being Information was judged amongst its friends within the 17 publications within the online-only class.
“It’s so gratifying to work with such a gifted and versatile crew of reporters,” mentioned NC Well being Information Editor Rose Hoban. “Their ardour for the subject and their professionalism has made NC Well being Information into required studying for hundreds across the state weekly.”
Two of the second place awards went to work that NC Well being Information did in partnership with different information organizations.
Taylor Knopf teamed up with Kaiser Well being Information reporter Aneri Pattani to look into some controversial practices at a extremely regarded substance use remedy program in Durham. The story explored bigger questions round how North Carolina officers will spend tens of millions of {dollars} in opioid settlement funds that can pour into the state over the subsequent practically twenty years.
For a number of years now, NC Well being Information has used beneficiant monetary help from North Carolina Sea Grant by the Group Collaborative Analysis Program to companion with Narrative Arts/Coastal Youth Media to work with teenagers from coastal North Carolina to assist them lend their voices to local weather change points. Their essays and podcasts within the particular part acknowledged by the Press Affiliation this 12 months centered on how local weather change is affecting North Carolina’s coastal communities, with a give attention to the Outer Banks.
Judges famous that the younger cadre’s work was “such a powerful grouping of tales, particularly contemplating they’re written and recorded by youth editors… Nice content material, introduced very well.”
Hoban and Anne Blythe, who taught the scholars, wished to notice the younger correspondents who took half within the venture: Emmy Benton, Daisy Morales Bravo, London Halloran, Whitney Salazar-Gutierrez and Jakub Skultety.
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“We heard this 12 months from one of many college students from one among our earlier tasks who’s gone on to journalism faculty,” Hoban mentioned. “If these younger persons are the way forward for journalism, we’ll be in good palms.”
Beneath are hyperlinks to the work acknowledged by the Press Affiliation.
First place prizes went to:
- Will Atwater for enterprise writing a couple of farming household that’s looking for a brand new approach ahead, in Hog farming household charts new path.
- Anne Blythe for her sleek and colourful methods of capturing a reader originally of tales. Learn the ledes right here, right here and right here.
- Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven for characteristic writing about how the Asheville Airport has employed remedy canine to calm the nerves of jittery vacationers. Judges famous that, “By July 2022, it was a common journalist’s problem to jot down a pandemic-related article that was contemporary and uplifting. You nailed it!”
- Taylor Knopf for arts and leisure reporting on a singular podcast that tackles the delicate subject of suicide. Judges famous it was “so necessary to make clear such a delicate subject… Very properly dealt with.”
- The employees for headline writing: Congestion, fever and vomit… oh my, Different viruses are again, Not socially distant: NC charges of sexually transmitted illness climb in the course of the pandemic and past and Studying by the traces: The correlation between literacy and incarceration.
Second place awards went to:
- Anne Blythe, Rose Hoban and Sarah Sloan, media producer at Narrative Arts/Coastal Youth Media, for the particular part, Youth local weather tales: Outer Banks version.
- Rachel Crumpler for her profile characteristic Carrying treasured cargo
- Rachel Crumpler and Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven for information characteristic writing on communities fighting maternity care. Learn the tales right here and right here.
- Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven for schooling reporting on how Faculties battle to retain particular ed lecturers.
- Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven for beat characteristic reporting as she in contrast take care of these with complicated behavioral wants. Learn the tales right here and right here.
- Taylor Knopf for investigative reporting in Looking for assist and getting handcuffed, a deep dive into the state’s overuse of involuntary commitments for folks in psychological well being crises.
- Taylor Knopf and Aneri Pattani, a Kaiser Well being Information reporter, for information enterprise reporting of their tales trying into the stress constructing round funding for opioid remedy. Learn the tales right here, right here and right here.
The third place awards went to:
- Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven for schooling reporting on the Edgecombe County HOPE program, which takes a “trauma-informed” method to assist deal with generational poverty and racism.
- Jennifer Fernandez within the illustration/picture illustration/print or interactive graphics class for Interval Poverty.
- Rose Hoban for beat information reporting on how nurses are navigating a rocky well being care system within the wake of the pandemic. Learn the tales right here, right here and right here.
