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Pennsylvania Newspaper Association - Keystone Press Awards

First Place, Investigative Reporting
David S. Barry "Horse Country"

Second Place, Investigative Reporting
J.F. Pirro "Young Guns"

Second Place, Column
Duane Swierczynski, Editor's Letter

First Place, Ongoing News Coverage
Doron Taussig, Immigration

First Place, Sports Story
Jeff Pearlman, "Throwback Backstop"

Second Place, News Feature
Brian Hickey "Disposable Lives"

First Place, Business or Consumer Story
Ashlea Halpern, "Merchants of Death"

First Place, News Photo
Michael T. Regan, "Mine Road"

Second Place, Distinguished Writing Weekly
Brian Hickey, Collection

Society of Professional Journalists Spotlight Contest

2nd Place, Best Overall Weekly

First Place Spot News, Non-Daily
Doron Taussig "The Big Miedo"

First Place, Tabloid Page Design, Non-Daily
Reseca Glasser, Evan M. Lopez and Michael T. Regan "Road to Nowhere"

Honorable Mention, Feature Story, Non-Daily
Ashlea Halpern "Battle of the Sexless"

First Place, Business and Labor Story, Non-Daily
Doron Taussig "Bite the Hand"

First Place, Spot News Photo, Non-Daily
Michael T. Regan "Mine Road"

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association

Newspaper of the Year Categories

1st Place:
Advertising Excellence; Layout and Design

2nd Place:
Diversity

Honorable Mention:
General and Departmental News Coverage.

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association - Keystone Press Awards

1st Place, Investigative Reporting
Mike Newall, "Emergency Breakdown"

2nd Place, Investigative Reporting
Doron Taussig, "Restraining Disorder"

2nd Place, Column
Bruce Schimmel, "Loose Canon"

2nd Place (tie), Business/Consumer Story
Doron Taussig, "Why Can't We Keep Them?"

1st Place, News Beat Reporting
Mike Newall, "Philadephia EMS"

1st Place, Photo Story
Mike Regan, "Lancaster Avenue"

2nd Place, Sports Photo
Mike Regan, "Science of Clutch Hitting"

2nd Place, Special Project
Staff, Summer Book Quarterly

1st Place, Distinguished Writing--Weekly
Mike Newall, "Path of the Righteous Man", "Emergency Breakdown," "Prayer for Grays Ferry"

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association - Keystone Press Awards

2nd Place: Best Overall Weekly.

1st Place, Page Design, Tabloid, Non-Daily
Reseca Glasser, "A Prayer for Gray's Ferry"

3rd Place, Feature, Non-Daily: Duane Swierczynski
"The Blood-Curdling Horror of Jim Warren"

1st Place, Enterprise Story, Non-Daily
Doron Taussig, "Restraining Disorder"

3rd Place, Commentary, Non-Daily
Bruce Schimmel, Loose Canon

2nd Place, Business and Labor Story, Non-Daily
Lori Hill, "Industrial Evolution"

1st Place, Photo Story, Non-Daily
Michael T. Regan, "Lancaster Avenue"

1st Place, Feature Photo, Non-Daily
Michael T. Regan: "Short Changed"

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association

Weekly Paper of the Year 2005

Newspaper of the Year Categories

1st Place:
Newswriting Excellence, Best Use of Photography, Newspaper Promotion

2nd Place:
Layout & Design, Special Section

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association - Keystone Press Awards

1st Place, Investigative Reporting
Doron Taussig ("Gang Mentality")

2nd Place, Investigative Reporting
Tom Lowenstein ("Snitch Work")

1st Place, Business Consumer Story
Juliet Fletcher ("Feast or Famine")

2nd Place, Distinguished Writing
Doron Taussig

2nd Place, News Photo
Mike Mergen ("Poll Position")

1st Place, Photo Story
Michael T. Regan ("Home Away From Home")

1st Place, Front Page Design
Staff

1st Place, Page Design
Reseca Glasser & Jessica Weber

Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

3rd Place, Special Section, Circulation greater than 50,000
"Marketing 215: Making a Good City Great." City Paper Staff

Society of Professional Journalists Spotlight Contest

2nd Place, Best Overall Weekly

3rd Place, Headline - Non-Daily
Duane Swierczynski and Brian Howard ("Two Cosi For Comfort")

1st Place, Photo Story
Michael T. Regan, ("Home Away From Home")
No second or third place awarded

3rd Place, Sports Photo - Non-Daily
Michael T. Regan ("Bloody Marvelous")

3rd Place, Feature Photo - Non-Daily
Michael T. Regan ("Affirmative Reaction")

2nd Place, Tabloid Page Design-Non-Daily
Reseca Glasser ("Affirmative Reaction")

1st Place, Feature Writing - Non-Daily
Doron Taussig ("Gang Mentality")

2nd Place, Enterprise Reporting - Non-Daily
Tom Lowenstein ("Snitch Work")

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association:
Weekly Newspaper of the Year 2004

1st Place: Newswriting Excellence, General & Departmental News, Layout & Design, Editorial/Opinion Page Excellence

2nd Place: Advertising Excellence, Best Use of Photography, Diversity, Special Section

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association:

Special Project, 1st Place
Staff, Rental Health

Personality Profile, 2nd Place
Daniel Brook, “The Rebel”

News Photo, 1st Place
Michael T. Regan, “Winds of War”

Photo Story, 1st Place
Michael T. Regan, “Germantown Avenue”

Front Page Design, 2nd Place
Kurt Ciliberto (“Silent Killer”), Reseca Glasser (“The Ice Man”) & Jessica Weber (“NTI”)

Page Design, 1st Place
Kurt Ciliberto (“War in Black and White”), Bret Syfert (“The Rebel”) & Jessica Weber (“Wicket Awesome”)

Distinguished Writing, 1st Place
Howard Altman, Longest Day

Distinguished Writing, 2nd Place
Brian Hickey, “The Ice Man”

Ongoing News Coverage, 1st Place: Staff, Mayor’s Race Coverage (Singley through Election Day)
The End of a Beautiful Friendship, Sam I Am, Calm Before The "Bomb", The Mayor and the Media, What's Bugging Him?, STREET-PEAT

Society of Professional Journalists, Local:

Spot News, 1st Place
Election Day

Page Design, 2nd Place
Reseca Glasser, “The Ice Man”

Sports Reporting, 1st Place
Brian Hickey, “The Ice Man”

Photo Story, 1st Place
Michael T. Regan, "Germantown Avenue"

Health and Medical Story, 2nd Place
Deborah Bolling, “Revolutionary Period”

Commentary, 1st Place
Howard Altman - Pretzel Logic

Philadelphia Press Association

Newspaper Writing, Honorable Mention
Brian Hickey, “The Ice Man”

Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

Photography, 1st Place
Michael T. Regan, “Germantown Avenue”

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s Keystone Awards

First Place,Investigative Reporting
Daniel Brook - Fear Factor/ Maier Options

2nd Place, General News
Debra Bolling - The Fugitive Fumble

Honorable Mention, Photo Story
Michael T. Regan - The Vet

2nd Place Front Page Design
Brian Hogan

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s Keystone Awards

First Place, Ongoing News Coverage
Staff for post-9-11 reports: Nothing Will Ever Be The Same; Still Standing; Afghan Days; Being There; Depraved New World; and Date With Destiny, Connect The Dot-Coms, and Master of Bin's Domain

First Place, Front Page Design, September 11 cateogory
Brian Hogan, Howard Altman and Frank Lewis, for Nothing Will Ever Be The Same

First Place, Sports Story
Frank Lewis, for Highs and Lows

First Place, Photo Story
Kass Mencher, for Boderlines: Manayunk

First Place, Front Page Design
Brian Hogan, for Marian's Song; It Knows What You Saw Last Tuesday; and Choice 2001

First Place, Headline Writing
Sam Adams, for "Eyeful Tower"

Honorable Mention, Series/Special Project
Jim Barry and Howard Altman, for Mob Trials

Society of Professional Journalists, Philadelphia Chapter

First place, Web Site

Third Place, Ongoing News Coverage, and Deadline or Spot News Story
Staff, for Nothing Will Ever Be The Same

Third Place, Business Story
Frank Lewis, for Medicine Man

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s Keystone Awards

Sweepstakes
For most Keystone awards in Division 5 (nondaily papers, circulations 10,000 or more)

First Place, Investigative Reporting
Howard Altman, Jim Barry and Noel Weyrich for The Dominican Connection

First Place, Ongoing News Coverage
Ralph Cipriano, for The L&I Files

First Place, Personality Profile
Sam Adams, for The Mayor of Hostile City

Second Place, Personality Profile
David Warner, for Favorite Son

Second Place, Sports Story
Daryl Gale, for Mortal Combat

Honorable Mention, Headline Writing
Staff, for "The Agony and The Xmas-y"

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation's
Newspaper of the Year Awards

First Place (overall), Weekly Newspapers

First place, Newswriting Excellence

First place, Advertising Excellence

First place, Layout and Design

First place, Newspaper Promotion

Second place, General and Departmental News Coverage

Second place, Diversity

Society of Professional Journalists Greater Philadelphia Chapter

First Place, Ongoing News Coverage
Ralph Cipriano, for The L&I Files

First Place, Local Column
Howard Altman

Second Place, Deadline or Spot News
Staff, for Convention Diary

Second Place, Criticism
Sam Adams

Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

First Place, Photojournalism
Kass Mencher, for Borderlines

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association's Keystone Awards

Sweepstakes
For most Keystone awards in Division 5 (nondaily papers, circulations 10,000 or more)

First Place, News Beat Reporting
Noel Weyrich, for coverage of the Philadelphia Police Department (Blood on the Badge; The Case of the Cockfighting Cops; Deadly Farce; Hero to Zero; Operation Whitewash; Up Against The Blue Wall)

First Place, Sports Story
Howard Altman, for Interview With The Umpire

First Place, Front Page Design
Mark Evans

First Place, Graphic/Photo Illustration
Eric Reynolds

Second Place, Investigative Reporting
Howard Altman, for The Kimberly Conundrum (Part One, Part Two)

Second Place, Feature Story
Gwen Shaffer, for Power of Attorney

Second Place, Series/Special Project
Staff, for How Street Won

Second Place, Graphic/Photo Illustration
John Veland

Honorable Menton, Headline Writing
Howard Altman and David Warner, for Schmuck of the Irish; Signs Sealed and Delivered; and Alley McBowl

Honorable Mention, Graphic/Photo Illustration
John Gowling

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation's
Newspaper of the Year Awards

First Place, Newswriting Excellence

First Place, General and Departmental News Coverage

First Place, Diversity

Second place, Newspaper Promotion

Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association's Keystone Awards

First Place, Public Service/Investigative Reporting
Gwen Shaffer, for Blood, Net and Tears

First Place, Sports
Jen Darr, for Violent Femmes

First Place, Ongoing News Coverage
Frank Lewis, for Holy War and follow-ups

First Place, Illustration
John Ueland, for Welcome to the Machine

Second Place, Column
Howard Altman

Second Place, Beat Reporting
Gwen Shaffer, for coverage of the Philadelphia Police Department (Internal Affairs; Car 32, Where Are You?; and Black Jack's Last Crack)

Honorable Mention, Series
Howard Altman, Frank Lewis and Mark Naymik, for Dispatches from the Drug War (Dr. Yes; Homicide 126; High Court; Heroin Highway)

Society of Professional Journalists, Philadelphia Chapter

Third Place, Film Criticism

Second Place, Sports Story

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation's
Newspaper of the Year Awards

Second place, Layout and Design

Honorable mention, Best Use of Photography

Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association

Newspaper of the Year
(Nondaily; tie with Kennett Paper, Kennett Square, Pa.)

Sweepstakes
For most awards in Division 6 (nondaily papers, circulations 10,000 or more)

Distinguished Writing Award
Frank Lewis, for Famous Seamus, Missing and The Devil Went Down to Jersey

First Place, Public Service/Investigative Reporting
Scott Farmelant, for Flying with Fumo

First Place, Ongoing News Coverage
Frank Lewis and Howard Altman, for Missing; The Plot Thickens; Smithspotting; Found; The Boys from Buncombe; A Ring of Clues

First Place, Feature Story
Neil Gladstone, for What’s Your Pitch?

First Place, Sports
Frank Lewis, for Alliance of the Slams

First Place, Photo Story
Julia Lehman, for 13 Stories

Second Place, Feature Beat Reporting
Margit Detweiler, for We’re Going Hoppin’; The Late, Great; All This Useless Beauty; and Piano Man

Second Place, Sports
Scott Farmelant, for Coach

Honorable Mention, Sports
Howard Altman, for King’s Pawns

Society of Professional Journalists, Philadelphia Chapter

First Place, Criticism
Cindy Fuchs

Second Place, Excellence in Non-Deadline Writing
Howard Altman

Second Place, Sports Story
Scott Farmelant, for Coach

Second Place, Feature Headline
David Warner, for Male Blonding

Second Place, Feature Photo
Julia Lehman, for 13 Stories

Third Place, Local Column
Howard Altman

Third Place, Sports Story
Howard Altman, for King’s Pawns

Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association's
Keystone Awards

Sweepstakes
For most awards in Division 6 (nondaily papers, circulations 10,000 or more)

First place, Public Service/Investigative Reporting
Scott Farmelant, for Unqualified Disaster

First Place, Column
Howard Altman

First Place, Feature Story
David Warner, for Zinni’s World

Second Place, Feature Story
Margit Detweiler, for Not With My Mutter You Don’t

Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

First Place, Arts Feature
Margit Detweiler, for Not With My Mutter You Don’t

Honorable Mention, Investigative Story
Scott Farmelant, for Unqualified Disaster

Society of Professional Journalists, Greater Philadelphia Chapter

Second Place, Non-Deadline Writing
Howard Altman, for Sunday Bloody Sunday

Second Place, Local Cloumn
Howard Altman

Third Place, Sports Story
Howard Altman, for Hard Boyle

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