Trib Total Media big winner in SPJ contest

Trib Total Media was named the overall best daily newspaper in Pennsylvania in the Society of Professional Journalists Keystone Chapter’s Excellence in Journalism contest for 2019.

It was the second consecutive year the Trib won the organization’s top award.

“We are humbled by this recognition from such a prestigious, time-honored organization as the Society of Professional Journalists,” said Susan McFarland, executive editor at Trib Total Media. “We don’t set out to win awards. Our journalists work hard every day to bring the very best in local news to our readers. That is and will remain our mission.

“Of course, it’s gratifying when those efforts are recognized as being the best among the many, many great news organizations.”

The contest, which is not based on circulation but on quality of the profession and what it stands for, is open to all journalists from Pennsylvania and New Jersey whose work appeared in a publication in one of the two states.

The categories in which Trib Total Media reporters, editors, designers and photographers were name recently as winners for work that appeared in 2019 are:

Business and labor reporting

3rd place: Paul Guggenheimer — “40 Years Ago: Three Mile Island accident rattled America’s confidence in nuclear energy”

Editorial writing

1st place: Lori Falce; 2nd place: Falce; 3rd place: Falce

Layout

• Newspaper design — 2nd place: Melanie Wass

• Headlines — 1st place: “So long sweethearts, MISS U”

3rd place: “The young and antiqueless”

• Feature page design — 2nd place: Melanie Wass

3rd place: Wass

• Sports page design — 2nd place: Jeff Vella

3rd place: Tribune-Review

• Graphic/photo illustration — 1st place: Tribune- Review staff

Online

• Daily web use — 1st place: Trib Total Media

• Breaking news — 1st place: Megan Guza — “Rosfeld acquittal leaves relieved wife in tears and a mother indignant”

Photos

• Feature — 2nd place: Kristina Serafini — Bishop Zubik washes inmates’ feet at Holy Thursday Mass

• Feature, news — 2nd place: Nate Smallwood — Police present flag to family

• Feature, news — 3rd place: Kristina Serafini — Officer Calvin Hall funeral

• Sports — 1st place: Christopher Horner — Francisco Cervelli celebrates at the plate

• Sports — 3rd place: Chaz Palla — Miles Garrett rips off Mason Rudolph’s helmet

Podcasts

Overall — 2nd place: Tim Benz

Spot news

3rd place: Staff — Michael Rosfeld trial

Writing

• Sports news coverage: 2nd place: Kevin Gorman, Jerry DiPaola, Tim Benz and Christopher Horner — “Pirates fire Hurdle”

3rd place: Kevin Gorman, Paul Schofield, Doug Gulasy, Jerry DiPaola, Kevin Smith — NCAA wrestling tournament coverage

• Lifestyle/entertainment: 3rd place: Paul Guggenheimer

• Sports feature: 3rd Place: Bill Beckner — “Comeback kid: MP’s Giallonardo inspires with return to baseball”

• Column writing: 1st place: Lori Falce

• Education: 3rd place: Greg Macafee — “More than a game: Coaches stress benefits of football as player participation dwindles”

Writing blog

2nd place: Seth Rorabaugh