FlaglerDwell gained the Florida Press Club’s prime award as Florida’s greatest on-line unbiased news website in all divisions. FlaglerDwell additionally gained first place in schooling reporting amongst all on-line websites and newspapers with a circulation of as much as 40,000.
FlaglerDwell Editor Pierre Tristam took second place in commentary (the highest award went to The Bradenton Journal‘s Marc Masferrer), and FlaglerLive earned an honorable mention in the Lucy Morgan Award for In-Depth Reporting, also among all online sites and newspapers with a circulation of up to 40,000.
The awards were announced Saturday evening at the Florida Press Club’s annual banquet in Daytona Beach, the place the keynote speaker was Mark Lane, the Daytona Beach News-Journal’s veteran columnist and humorist.
For greatest on-line news websites, the award acknowledges general-excellence, with websites judged “on overall content and design, local emphasis, interactivity and ease of navigation.” A separate award went to websites affiliated with a print newspaper. In that class, the employees of the Bradenton Herald gained the state’s prime honor.
The FlaglerDwell articles that gained the schooling award mirrored the weaponization of the Flagler County School Board by strain teams such because the “moms for liberty” on one hand and complicitly disruptive college board members on the opposite, a few of whom militated for book bans. The articles have been written by Tristam.
The three essays that earned the commentary award centered on the felony justice system–the progressive unpredictability of all-white juries in Flagler, the barbaric however enduring habit of corporal punishment, and an occasion of “Grace from the Crime of Punishment.” Tristam final 12 months gained two third-place awards–for commentary, and for arts criticism–from Florida’s Society of Professional Journalists. (Commentary falls on the opinion facet of journalism.)
For almost 70 years, the Florida Press Club has been honoring the most effective in Florida journalism from format to pictures to writing. It was initially referred to as the Florida Women’s Press Club, as no different golf equipment allowed girls to compete when it was began. Honorees have expanded to incorporate males and digital-only publications.
The work honored Saturday was printed between June 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021.
The Sun Sentinel’s sequence “Crying out for Help,” earned the Club’s Frances DeVore Award for Community that comes with a $1,000 prize. The sequence chronicled how the paper found that 1000’s of calls to Broward County’s emergency dispatch went unanswered, generally with devastating outcomes. Public concern in regards to the scenario led to raises of as much as $29,000 a 12 months for some dispatchers, based on the paper.
The winner of the Lucy Morgan Award for In-Depth Reporting went to the Florida Times-Union for its protection of federal indictments within the tried sale of Jacksonville’s public utility. The paper detailed how the utility’s executives pressured the board into searching for provides in order that those self same executives might revenue from the sale.
FlaglerDwell is an unbiased, non-profit news website established in 2010, with a readership of between 20,000 and 25,000 a day throughout non-emergencies. (The website has competed in journalistic contests on solely three events through the years, and positioned every time.) The website is supported by a mix of promoting and readers’ direct, tax-deductible contributions.