Journalism Awards Summary

This is one of three individual journalism award certificates presented to me in 2009.

I take great pride in my writing background, which is helpful and valuable for communicating in the digital world. My efforts have been have been recognized with many journalism excellence awards both as part of teams as an individual. These honors are listed below.

2014 Associated Press Sports Editors Contest

  • Multimedia Award for the eight ‘Legendary Ladies’ video documentaries and recognized individually with Tennessean colleagues Mike Organ and Dave Ammenheuser.
  • Tennessean.com/sports for Website, Honorable Mention (75,001 to 175,000 circulation/750,001 to 1.999 million unique monthly visitors)

2013 Associated Press Sports Editors Website Contest

  • Tennessean.com received Top 10 honors (500,000-1.9 million monthly users division).
  • This marked the first time The Tennessean was recognized in the Top 10 in this contest.

2012 Gannett Fourth Quarter Awards of Excellence

  • Finalist (Staff). Part of my role as the night digital content producer at the St. Cloud Times was listening to the emergency scanner for potential breaking news events. Reports of  ‘officer down’ came through scanner communications on a fall night in 2012. I was the first journalist on the scene for what would become a significant state-wide news event. Covering this tragic story required a commitment to accuracy in an active-shooting investigation environment.
    • Judge’s comments: “For late-night coverage of a police officer who was shot and killed while responding to a “welfare check” at an apartment.”
    • Judges said: “St. Cloud did a fine job of jumping on a breaking news story late at night. The police officer was shot and killed shortly after 10 p.m. and St. Cloud’s night digital content producer dashed to the scene. He immediately began sending out Facebook and Twitter updates, followed by an online story, photos and video of a 3 a.m. press conference.

2011 Minnesota Associated Press Sports Association Sportswriting Contest

  • Third place: game story

2010 Minnesota Associated Press Sports Association Sportswriting Contest

  • Second place: game story
  • Second place: spot news
  • Third place: spot news
  • Third place: general excellence (Bemidji Pioneer sports section)
  • First place: special section (Bemidji Pioneer sports section)
  • Second place: special section (Bemidji Pioneer sports section)
  • Second place: design and editing (Bemidji Pioneer sports section)

2009 Minnesota Associated Press Sports Association Sportswriting Contest

2009 Minnesota Newspaper Association Contest

  • Second place: Sports reporting for dailies up to 10,000 (Bemidji Pioneer sports section)

2008 Minnesota Associated Press Sports Association Sportswriting Contest

  • Second place: spot news
  • Third place: game story
  • Third place: enterprise reporting

2007 Minnesota Associated Press Sports Association Sportswriting Contest

  • Third place: enterprise reporting