Charlottesville Tomorrow was honored Saturday at the annual Virginia Press Association News & Advertising Conference as the best news website in Virginia among the members of the VPA’s online division.
Charlottesville Tomorrow received a total of 21 awards for our brand of in-depth community news. The recognition includes eight first place awards, five of which were for news writing. The awards include a Best in Show for Sean Tubbs, the news sweepstakes for best online publication in Virginia, and top honors for best news website for the third year in a row.
On behalf of our entire staff and board of directors, we are honored to have this recognition and we want to thank you, our readers and supporters, for giving us this opportunity to work in this way to create a better community in Charlottesville-Albemarle.
We are also thankful for the support of our news partners at The Daily Progress, especially for the work of editors Jenny Rector, Mark Newton, managing editor Wes Hester and publisher Rob Jiranek. We continue to learn from these professionals and the news we are privileged to share with the community is better as a result.
2016 Virginia Press Association awards to Charlottesville Tomorrow
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BEST IN SHOW, Writing (online division) FIRST PLACE, Feature Series or Continuing Story (online division) Neighborhood defeats rezoning in century-old African-American community FIRST PLACE, Feature Story Writing (online division) |
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FIRST PLACE, Business & financial writing (online division) FIRST PLACE, Online Slideshow (online division) |
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FIRST PLACE, Multimedia news report (online division) |
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FIRST PLACE, Education writing (online division) FIRST PLACE, Health, science and environmental writing (online division) |
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FIRST PLACE, Best news website in Virginia (online division) |
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+ 11 ADDITIONAL AWARDS General news writing SECOND PLACE, Aaron Richardson, Noah Zeidman & Sean Tubbs, Albemarle County voters pass first bond referendum in 42 years THIRD PLACE, Sean Tubbs, Albemarle Co. proposes pulling its courts and the county seat out of city Government Writing SECOND PLACE, Sean Tubbs Business and financial writing THIRD PLACE, Noah Zeidman Health, science and environmental writing SECOND PLACE, Sean Tubbs Photography – General News Photo SECOND PLACE, Lauren Kaminski THIRD PLACE, Josh Mandell Photography – Pictorial Photo THIRD PLACE, Brian Wheeler Multimedia – Online Slideshow THIRD PLACE, Brian Wheeler, The 2016 Tom Tom Founders Festival in Pictures Multimedia News Report SECOND PLACE, Aaron Richardson & Dan Hennicke, Film students hone their skills and help a local nonprofit THIRD PLACE, Josh Mandell, Tech Tour focuses on the next generation of technology |
In our fifth year as a VPA member, we also have some repeat winners.
Sean Tubbs, who just celebrated his tenth anniversary at Charlottesville Tomorrow, has been recognized for a fifth year in a row with a first place award for news writing. Sean’s news reporting was recognized with six total awards and a Best in Show.
Brian Wheeler Charlottesville Tomorrow’s executive director for the past 12 years, was recognized with three awards.
Also for a fifth year, our hard working interns have won awards. Josh Mandell (5 awards – Josh is now our Education & Business Reporter), Noah Zeidman (2 awards) and Lauren Kaminski (1 award) were all recognized for their news reporting or photography by the Virginia Press Association.
Many of you also helped us tell these stories. You trusted us with your story ideas, you allowed us to share your opinions, you pointed us in the direction of important information sources and you made gifts to support this work. Thank you.
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Our goal is to connect you to vital information for making informed choices about our community’s future. With your continued support, we will aim to provide even more of the best in community news in 2017.
