The California Newspaper Publishers Association has honored the North Coast Journal for award-winning work in eight categories this year, ranging from investigative reporting to feature writing, from cartooning to graphic illustration.
We just got the CNPA awards notice in the mail late last week, and there are lots of congratulations to go around in this year’s Better Newspapers Contest.
Ryan Burns won first or second place, to be announced in June, in three categories: coverage of local government (“To Redeem a Felon“), investigative reporting (“Don’t Bother Coming In“) and writing (“Fight”).
The enitire editorial team won a first or second place, to be announced in June, for breaking news with its June 2012 election coverage (“The Money, The Future, The Vote“).
And we are always proud of our “certificates of achievement,” awarded to runners-up who were in the top 10 percent for their category:
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg for investigative reporting (“Going Once“) and coverage of the environment (“Dairy Diary“).
Holly Harvey for graphic illustration. (Update: The link is now here for “Shellfish Cultivation in Humboldt Bay.”)
Scottie Lee Meyers for a feature story (“The Mormon Moment“).
Joel Mielke for editorial cartooning (“What bumper stickers mean” and “The everlasting blessing of the season“).
This article appears in For the Love of Bowling.
I wasn’t around to catch joel’s holiday comic. Good stuff! I can say from experience, the personal response for an editorial cartoonist are at least 50% thankless and, simultaneously, at least 50% fuck you. Kudos to milky joel, joel mielke.
What’s next, an association of Wall Street regulators telling us they’ve done a stellar job?
“Moments Of Truth” ignored election corruption and focused on the finger food!? This is award material?
To this day, not one print or TV media has reported the corruption surrounding the anointment of Humboldt County’s next developer-backed candidates.
Must we rely on Humboldt County Supervisor “Rex” Bohn to tell us who was behind the $300,000 11th hour barrage of 6-phony front-group mailers endorsing him? His 60 top donors had no listed occupations?
As long as “Rex” is “OK” with it, so are our local “community” media.
Disgusting.
If those low-effort stories and drawings won awards, I’m saddened at how far newsprint has fallen. I’m starting to think that these “awards” are like the awards handed out to everybody on the t-ball team, nice, feel good awards that really don’t mean shit in the long run.
Yes, it’s “shit” but it’s our “shit’. Thanks for calling it out!
At least the NCJ gets it right once in a while…like a broken clock.
It should be illegal for the Times Standard to use the word “journalists” and “reporters”….like the word “insurance” that millions of Americans had just before they lost their homes to pay for a serous illness.
Doesn’t deserve it. Not when the NCJ censors political opponents and thus robs the community of counter voices to the NCJ political slant. It matters not how many awards NCJ curries when at home it is being used as a political tool for a rather small minority viewpoint in Humboldt County.
@Steve Lewis……what political “opponent” did NCJ censor? Also what small minority viewpoint do they represent? Back up your accusations with facts.
@Steve Lewis……what political “opponent” did NCJ censor? Also what small minority viewpoint do they represent? Back up your accusations with facts.
NCJ is a political tool of our local Progressive activist who are the tiny minority that represents the anti-working class, anti-poor yuppie privileged class in Humboldt County. They work to destroy the economic fabric that supports working class families in Humboldt County by constantly attacking any major development projects that would bring more jobs into the county. They work constantly to block any stores that cater to the limited incomes of Humboldt County’s working class and poor.
The NCJ has censored every single letter to the editor I have written in the past decade. If they can produce a letter of mine from that period I will be surprised. And each time I’ve suggested in-depth articles for the NCJ they’ve ignored the suggestion. It happens that I was the only environmental activist in Humboldt County who realized the enormous ecological disaster that was occurring with unregulated homestead development. I wrote letters to the editor starting in 1990 to this effect and was branded by the same political crowd that morphed into Progressives as a frontman for Pacific Lumber Co. and using this smear enviros including the NCJ acting as mouthpiece for enviros, censored most every single letter to them in that time period. They refused to research and write up any report of the sedimentation damage to SoHum streams that my letters addressed. In short, by blocking environmental information about homesteader eco-damage because homesteaders were backing enviros and buying NCJournals, the NCJ contributed to the 20 year absence of environmental protection protest against homestead subdivision eco-damage. Now EPIC has reversed its former stance and pushes for regulation of homestead development, 20 years too late.
This is why censorship of opposing political viewpoints should not happen on any public Humboldt major source of community information. The damage of censorship has been done but still the editors of the NCJ never seem to learn or worse, don’t care.
The recognition is well-deserved. Judy, Carrie, Marcy and your writers are some of the last in this poor country trying to do real journalism. It’s not always great, but there are a few of us who appreciate the effort. Thanks.