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The Almanac scored eight California Journalism awards, announced over the weekend at a ceremony in Los Angeles.
The statewide competition sponsored by the California News Publishers Association honors work published in 2023.
Reporter, now editor, Angela Swartz took home second place in the youth and education category for her series “Empty desks: Getting chronically absent students back to class is no easy feat.” Judges said: “Clear and thorough reporting on an important topic, with a strong variety of sources and perspectives. Reflects humanity as well as the bureaucratic and educational challenges involved.”
Former Visual Journalist Magali Gauthier won two awards. She landed second place in the photo story/essay category for “Menlo School’s flag football team is revved up to take the field” about the school’s new girls flag football team led by former San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Steve Young. She won third place in the news photo category for an image for the story “Atherton guts most of multifamily housing from plan it’s sending to state.”
“The photographer did a great job focusing on the people who I assume are the most impacted or some of the most vocal of the group,” judges wrote. “The image is sharp and we can easily read the subject’s face.”
Lizzy Myers won two awards. One third place award for her photos taken for the 71st Woodside Junior Rodeo and a second place award for her feature photo in the story “Pre-K expansion, steady enrollment and facility upgrades: Here’s what’s happening at local schools this year.”
Abigail Van Neely won fourth place in the environmental reporting category for her story “Community organizations turn to rain gardens to prevent flooding in East Palo Alto.”
Judges commented that Neely explored “a fresh and fairly easy way to possibly head off flooding: rain gardens. Neely gives the pros and cons, shares the optimism and the skepticism of this way to ‘maybe’ safeguard neighborhoods.”
The story “Terminated Meta content moderators worry about fake news flourishing in their absence,” by Malea Martin and Cameron Rebosio, won fifth place in the business category.
Rebosio and Swartz also won fifth place for their housing and land-use reporting.
In CNPA’s competition, which recognizes outstanding work to inform and enlighten their readers through reporting, design, photography and multimedia in print and online, The Almanac competed in the 4,301 to 11,000 print circulation division and/or 200,000-299,000 monthly unique visitors.
There were 2,964 entries submitted in the 2023 competition, according to CNPA. This was the first year that print and online entries were not separated.
View the full list of winners at cnpa.com/2023-cja-contest.
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Excellent and well deserved!
You guys do a great job covering our local news. Thank you.