The California News Publishers Association identified The Sacramento Bee with a lot more than two dozen awards in its once-a-year ceremony past month, honoring the newspaper for its print and digital journalism achievements in 2021.
The Bee earned 27 complete best-5 finishes from CNPA, together with to start with location in 4 print journalism groups, and swept the prime three destinations for profile tales by big each day print publications.
Capitol Bureau reporter Sophia Bollag gained 1st prize for a deep dive on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s struggle with dyslexia. Breaking information reporter Michael McGough took next location for a story about an El Dorado County political appointee who posed for photographs with a team of Proud Boys even though dressed as Santa. And Point out Worker reporter Wes Venteicher gained 3rd for a profile on controversial, embattled union president Richard Louis Brown.
Reporters Jason Pohl and Sawsan Morrar alongside with visible journalist Renée C. Byer gained 1st-spot honors for protection of youth and training by day by day newspapers with massive circulation, for their spectacular and emotional account of Sacramento college students stranded in Afghanistan amid last year’s withdrawal of U.S. troops.
“From the first paragraph, this story captures the coronary heart,” CNPA judges wrote.
Visual journalist Paul Kitagaki Jr. acquired to start with position for wildfire images, for a placing image of a firefighter staring up at flames from the Caldor Fire as it raged in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
The Sacramento Bee’s style team also received initially, second and fourth spots for inside of site layout and style and design, for the newspaper’s Nov. 10, Oct. 13 and Nov. 17 print editions, respectively.
The Bee received a different next-position award for very best artistic image, for Xavier Mascareñas’ shot of June’s supermoon over the Placer County Fair in Roseville.
Foodstuff reporter Benjy Egel’s record of the Sacramento area’s Leading 50 dining places, and accompanying webpage layouts and graphics compiled by Egel, Sohail Al-Jamea, Acton H. Gorton and Nathaniel Levine every gained third position in arts and entertainment protection and on the web tale presentation web page structure and design, respectively.
Films by Mascareñas and Jenn Molina about a white supremacist church in Northern California and by Byer touring a homeless encampment along the Sacramento River finished third and fourth, respectively, in the news category for movie journalism.
The checklist of winners in CNPA’s California Journalism Awards was shared in rolling bulletins posted to Twitter in excess of the final two weeks of May well, then posted in whole to the association’s internet site.
Among the other honorees:
▪ Theresa Clift and Byer received third spot in community provider journalism for their protection of homelessness.
▪ Morrar, Molly Sullivan and Sam Stanton won 3rd in wildfire function coverage for “Stories of reduction and survival from inside California’s Caldor Fireplace.”
▪ Tony Bizjak, Dale Kasler and Reese gained fourth in land-use reporting for their coverage of Folsom’s rising blueprint and associated water complications.
▪ Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks and Phillip Reese took fourth location in business news tales, for their investigation into how a absence of sidewalks in Sacramento neighborhoods endanger and kill Black people.
▪ Yousef Baig took fourth put in columns, for impression columns he penned about COVID-19 vaccine selections and affordable housing in Sacramento.
▪ Mascareñas took fourth position in function pictures and creative photography for images of a youthful female touching the “Bacteria Bear” statue outdoors the governor’s office and pictures of the Nutcracker Ballet, respectively.
▪ Stanton and Venteicher took fifth spot in in-depth reporting for their protection of fatal hazing at California Point out Prison, Sacramento.
▪ Kasler took fifth location in agricultural reporting for his protection of drinking water cutoffs to farmers amid drought.
▪ Jack Ohman received fifth area for his editorial cartoon, “Gavin and Hothouse.”
Michael McGough anchors The Sacramento Bee’s breaking news reporting staff, masking public protection and other local stories. A Sacramento indigenous and lifelong cash resident, he interned at The Bee whilst attending Sacramento Condition, where he acquired a degree in journalism.
