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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2005 State and Local Winners

PNA KEYSTONE PRESS AWARDS

DISTINGUISHED VISUAL AWARD (SPECIAL AWARDS FOR ALL DIVISIONS IN STATE)
First Place: John Beale

DIVISION I AWARDS (LARGEST DIVISION IN STATE)

FEATURE STORY
First Place: Cristina Rouvalis — “Trailer Park”

ONGOING NEWS COVERAGE
Second Place: Staff — “Abu Ghraib”

EDITORIAL
Second Place: Tom Waseleski

PAGE DESIGN
First Place: Diane Juravich and Daniel Marsula

SPOT NEWS
First Place: Cindi Lash and Jonathan Silver — “Call to Call to Call”

HEADLINE WRITING
Second Place: David Fink

PHOTO STORY
First Place: Annie O’Neill — “Who Will Care?”
Second Place: John Beale — “A Dream Foreclosed”

PAPME AWARDS (Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors Association)

BEST PHOTO STORY
First Place: Annie O’Neill — “Who Will Care?”
Second Place: John Beale — “A Dream Foreclosed”

BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Second Place: Bill Heltzel and Bill Schackner — “The Price of Petersen”

BEST GENERAL NEWS
Second Place: Staff — “Abu Ghraib”

BEST BUSINESS WRITING
First Place: Jim McKay — “Outsourcing the Future”
Second Place: Dan Fitzpatrick — “US Airways”

BEST FEATURE
First Place: Cris Rouvalis — “Trailer Park”

BEST FEATURE PHOTO
First Place: John Beale — “Silent Protest”

BEST EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC SERVICE BY A NEWSPAPER
Second Place: Staff — “Metrovisions”

BEST PERSONALITY PORTRAIT
First Place: John Beale — “Face of Foreclosure”

PITTSBURGH BLACK MEDIA FEDERATION (ROBERT L VANN AWARDS)

NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL
First Place: Dan Simpson — "Ray's Song"

NEWSPAPER COLUMN
First Place: Tony Norman — "Sad Irony of Blacks as Bigots on Gay Rights"

NEWSPAPER/NEWS FEATURE
First Place: Monica Haynes — "A Challenge that Changed the Democratic Party"
Honorable Mention: Michelle K. Massie — "Accentuate the Positive"

NEWSPAPER/ SPORTS FEATURE
Honorable Mention: Rick Shrum — "One of a Kind"

NEWSPAPER/ENTERPRISE REPORTING
Honorable Mention: Eleanor Chute — "Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary"

NEWSPAPER/FEATURE STORY
First Place: Monica Haynes — "Ride to Freedom and the Past"
Honorable Mention: Nate Guidry — "A Long Delayed Debut"

NEWSPAPER/PICTURE STORY
First Place: John Beale — "Season of Renewal"

NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHY/NEWS
First Place: J. Monroe Butler II — "Ebenezer Church Burns"
Honorable Mention: Robin Rombach — "Disaster Fund Grows"

NEWSPAPER PRINT AND ILLUSTRATION/ART AND DESIGN
First Place: Diane Juravich (feature page design) — "Season of Renewal"
Honorable Mention: Daniel Marsula (feature page design) — "Bustin' Rhymes"

GOLDEN QUILL AWARDS (Press Club of Western Pennsylvania)

BEST OF SHOW
Ray Sprigle Memorial Award for daily newspapers and wire services with circulation over 45,000: Staff — Flooding of September 2004

ILLUSTRATIONS — FEATURE
First Place: Stacy Innerst

ILLUSTRATIONS — EDITORIAL CARTOON
First Place: Tim Menees

FEATURES — PHOTO ESSAY OR STORY
First Place: Annie O'Neill

FEATURES — DAILY NEWSPAPERS OVER 45,000
First Place: Michael A. Fuoco

BUSINESS — DAILY NEWSPAPERS OVER 45,000
First Place: Jim McKay

SCIENCE, HEALTH, TECHNOLOGY — DAILY NEWSPAPERS OVER 45,000
First Place: Gary Rotstein

CULTURAL — DAILY NEWSPAPERS OVER 45,000
First Place: Scott Mervis

SPORTS — DAILY NEWSPAPERS OVER 45,000
First Place: Chuck Finder

COLUMNS — DAILY NEWSPAPERS OVER 45,000
First Place: Brian O'Neill

SPOT NEWS — DAILY NEWSPAPERS OVER 45,000
First Place: Dennis B. Roddy

CONTINUING COVERAGE — DAILY NEWSPAPERS OVER 45,000
First Place: Flood Team

PNA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR CONTEST

GENERAL & DEPARTMENTAL NEWS COVERAGE
Second Place

EDITORIAL/OPINION PAGE EXCELLENCE
Second Place

LAYOUT & DESIGN
Second Place

SPECIAL SECTION
Honorable Mention

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING TEARSHEET CONTEST
Niche Publication Winner

WILLIAM A. SCHNADER PRINT MEDIA AWARDS (Pennsylvania Bar Association)

Second Place: Barbara White Stack — "Scared Straight” Turns Violent