The Herald News garnered a Distinguished Newspaper award and a Publick Occurrences Award for Outstanding Journalism on Thursday at the New England Newspaper and Press Associations fall conference.
As always, its great to be recognized for outstanding work, but these awards are particularly gratifying because they are decided by actual newspaper readers," said Lisa Strattan, associate publisher and editor in chief. "A lot of awards are given by the industry and they are wonderful but when real people, real readers give their seal of approval, thats just the icing on the cake."
The Herald News was named a Distinguished Newspaper for weekday editions in its circulation category. Focus groups of newspaper readers determine the winners of the Distinguished Newspaper award.
I witness every single day how hard our editorial team works to deliver relevant, timely news and information to our audience. It affirms the pride I feel when our team is recognized in this way, Strattan said.
The Autism Among Us series spearheaded by Lynne Sullivan, News Editor at The Herald News launched at the beginning of April, Autism Awareness Month, and was published throughout the month in various sections of the paper.
Judges said the first-person column by Sullivan, who has an autistic 10-year-old son, set the tone for the series that touched on all aspects of autism, from families personal experiences to health, education, special diets, autistic young adults aging out of services, and equestrian therapy. Several Herald News staffers contributed to the series.
The NENPA judges also praised the series for bringing an important issue to the community.
I couldnt be more proud of the dedication and commitment our employees demonstrate every day to our mission and responsibilities to community service," said Sean Burke, publisher. "These awards and recognition from our industry peers are a validation that were on the right track."
The Publick Occurrences award is of particular importance to us as it recognizes our efforts to not only inform our community about issues of importance to them, but to engage our audience in the conversation a key goal of ours that we will continue to pursue every day, Burke said.
The Autism Among Us series is available online at http://www.heraldnews.com/autism.
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Herald News wins two awards at press association fall conference
