Albuquerque Journal wins General Excellence award at New Mexico Press Association

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ALL AWARDS

Daily Class I 1st Place 01. NEWS WRITING Santa Fe New Mexican Phaedra Haywood

Daily Class I 2nd Place 01. NEWS WRITING Santa Fe New Mexican Hannah Laga Abram

Daily Class II 1st Place 01. NEWS WRITING Carlsbad Current Argus Adrian Hedden

Daily Class II 2nd Place 01. NEWS WRITING Roswell Daily Record Terri Harber

Weekly Class I 1st Place 01. NEWS WRITING Las Cruces Bulletin Mike Cook

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 01. NEWS WRITING Valencia County News-Bulletin Felina Martinez and Julia M. Dendinger

Weekly Class II 1st Place 01. NEWS WRITING Las Vegas Optic Ryan Lowery

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 01. NEWS WRITING Ruidoso News Jessica Onsurez

Daily Class I 1st Place 02. BREAKING NEWS Santa Fe New Mexican Nathan Lederman

Daily Class I 2nd Place 02. BREAKING NEWS Las Cruces Sun-News Algernon D’Ammassa

Daily Class II 1st Place 02. BREAKING NEWS Carlsbad Current Argus Adrian Hedden

Daily Class II 2nd Place 02. BREAKING NEWS Carlsbad Current Argus Jessica Onsurez and Adrian Hedden

Weekly Class I 1st Place 02. BREAKING NEWS Rio Rancho Observer Tracy Goldizen

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 02. BREAKING NEWS Rio Rancho Observer Gary Herron

Weekly Class II 1st Place 02. BREAKING NEWS El Defensor Chieftain Russell Huffman

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 02. BREAKING NEWS Ruidoso News Adrian hedden

Daily Class I 1st Place 03. BREAKING NEWS — DIGITAL Farmington Daily Times Mike Easterling, Jessica Onsurez

Daily Class I 2nd Place 03. BREAKING NEWS — DIGITAL Farmington Daily Times Mike Easterling, Jessica Onsurez

Weekly Division 1st Place 03. BREAKING NEWS — DIGITAL Rio Rancho Observer Tracy Goldizen

Weekly Division 2nd Place 03. BREAKING NEWS — DIGITAL Valencia County News-Bulletin Julia M. Dendinger and Felina Martinez

Daily Class I 1st Place 04. SPORTS WRITING Santa Fe New Mexican James Barron

Daily Class I 2nd Place 04. SPORTS WRITING Santa Fe New Mexican James Barron

Daily Class II 1st Place 04. SPORTS WRITING Carlsbad Current Argus Mike Smith

Daily Class II 2nd Place 04. SPORTS WRITING Carlsbad Current Argus Mike Smith

Weekly Class I 1st Place 04. SPORTS WRITING Valencia County News-Bulletin Mike Powers

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 04. SPORTS WRITING Taos News Jeans Pineda

Weekly Class II 1st Place 04. SPORTS WRITING Artesia Daily Press Brienne Green

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 04. SPORTS WRITING Artesia Daily Press Brienne Green

Daily Class I 1st Place 05. BUSINESS WRITING Santa Fe New Mexican Scott Wyland

Daily Class I 2nd Place 05. BUSINESS WRITING Albuquerque Journal Matthew Narvaiz

Daily Class II 1st Place 05. BUSINESS WRITING Carlsbad Current Argus Adrian Hedden

Daily Class II 2nd Place 05. BUSINESS WRITING Carlsbad Current Argus Adrian Hedden

Weekly Class I 1st Place 05. BUSINESS WRITING Taos News Liam Easley

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 05. BUSINESS WRITING Los Alamos Daily Post Kirsten Laskey

Weekly Class II 1st Place 05. BUSINESS WRITING El Defensor Chieftain Cathy Cook

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 05. BUSINESS WRITING El Defensor Chieftain Russell Huffman

Daily Class I 1st Place 06. ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING Source New Mexico Danielle Prokop, Diana Cervantes

Daily Class I 2nd Place 06. ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING Albuquerque Journal Ollie Reed Jr.

Daily Class II 1st Place 06. ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING Carlsbad Current Argus Adrian Hedden

Daily Class II 2nd Place 06. ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING Carlsbad Current Argus Adrian Hedden

Weekly Class I 1st Place 06. ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING Taos News Geoffrey Plant

Weekly Class II 1st Place 06. ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING Cibola Citizen Diego Lopez

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 06. ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING Deming Headlight Algernon D’Ammassa

Daily Class I 1st Place 07. EDUCATION WRITING Santa Fe New Mexican Margaret O’Hara

Daily Class I 2nd Place 07. EDUCATION WRITING Source New Mexico Ryan Lowery

Daily Class II 1st Place 07. EDUCATION WRITING Carlsbad Current Argus Adrian Hedden

Daily Class II 2nd Place 07. EDUCATION WRITING Roswell Daily Record Sarah Treschl

Weekly Class I 1st Place 07. EDUCATION WRITING Taos News Geoffrey Plant

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 07. EDUCATION WRITING Valencia County News-Bulletin Felina Martinez

Weekly Class II 1st Place 07. EDUCATION WRITING El Defensor Chieftain Cathy Cook

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 07. EDUCATION WRITING El Defensor Chieftain Cathy Cook

Daily Class I 1st Place 08. FEATURE WRITING Albuquerque Journal Ollie Reed Jr.

Daily Class I 2nd Place 08. FEATURE WRITING Santa Fe New Mexican Marianne Todd

Daily Class II 1st Place 08. FEATURE WRITING Roswell Daily Record Alex Ross

Daily Class II 2nd Place 08. FEATURE WRITING Roswell Daily Record Christina Stock

Weekly Class I 1st Place 08. FEATURE WRITING Gallup Sun Molly Howell

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 08. FEATURE WRITING Taos News Lynne Robinson

Weekly Class II 1st Place 08. FEATURE WRITING Deming Headlight Algernon D’Ammassa

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 08. FEATURE WRITING Artesia Daily Press Brienne Green

Daily Class I 1st Place 09. BEST HEADLINE WRITING Albuquerque Journal Alaina Mencinger

Daily Class I 2nd Place 09. BEST HEADLINE WRITING Albuquerque Journal Beth Trujillo

Weekly Division 1st Place 09. BEST HEADLINE WRITING Taos News John Miller

Weekly Division 2nd Place 09. BEST HEADLINE WRITING Rio Grande Sun Rio Grande SUN Staff

Daily Class I 1st Place 10. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Santa Fe New Mexican Nicholas Gilmore

Daily Class I 2nd Place 10. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Santa Fe New Mexican Daniel J. Chacon

Weekly Class I 1st Place 10. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Taos News Geoffrey Plant and John Miller

Daily Class I 1st Place 11. OBITUARY NEWS Santa Fe New Mexican Claudia Silva

Daily Class I 2nd Place 11. OBITUARY NEWS Las Cruces Sun-News Leah Romero

Weekly Class I 1st Place 11. OBITUARY NEWS Valencia County News-Bulletin Clara Garcia

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 11. OBITUARY NEWS Taos News Rick Romancito

Weekly Class II 1st Place 11. OBITUARY NEWS Las Vegas Optic Vanessa Maciel

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 11. OBITUARY NEWS Cibola Citizen Diego Lopez

Daily Division 1st Place 12. BEST NEWS COVERAGE Santa Fe New Mexican Staff, Santa Fe New Mexican

Daily Division 2nd Place 12. BEST NEWS COVERAGE Silver City Daily Press Daily Press Staff

Weekly Class I 1st Place 12. BEST NEWS COVERAGE Taos News Taos News editorial staff

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 12. BEST NEWS COVERAGE Rio Rancho Observer Tracy Goldizen, Kevin Hendricks, Michaela Helean, Gary Herron

Weekly Class II 1st Place 12. BEST NEWS COVERAGE Cibola Citizen Cibola Citizen Staff

Daily Division 1st Place 13. BEST SPORTS COVERAGE Albuquerque Journal Randy Harrison, James Yodice, Ken Sickenger and Journal freelancers

Daily Division 2nd Place 13. BEST SPORTS COVERAGE Roswell Daily Record Blynn Beltran

Weekly Class I 1st Place 13. BEST SPORTS COVERAGE Taos News Jeans Pineda

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 13. BEST SPORTS COVERAGE Rio Rancho Observer Gary Herron

Weekly Class II 1st Place 13. BEST SPORTS COVERAGE El Defensor Chieftain Russell Huffman

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 13. BEST SPORTS COVERAGE Deming Headlight Billy Armendariz

Daily Division 1st Place 14. COLUMNS Santa Fe New Mexican Milan Simonich

Daily Division 2nd Place 14. COLUMNS Santa Fe New Mexican Milan Simonich

Weekly Class I 1st Place 14. COLUMNS Valencia County News-Bulletin Julia M. Dendinger

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 14. COLUMNS Las Cruces Bulletin Richard Coltharp

Weekly Class II 1st Place 14. COLUMNS El Defensor Chieftain John Larson

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 14. COLUMNS Deming Headlight Annya Loya

Daily Class I 1st Place 15. SPORTS COLUMNS Santa Fe New Mexican Phill Casaus

Daily Class I 2nd Place 15. SPORTS COLUMNS Albuquerque Journal Geoff Grammer

Weekly Class I 1st Place 15. SPORTS COLUMNS Las Cruces Bulletin Richard Coltharp

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 15. SPORTS COLUMNS Las Cruces Bulletin Richard Coltharp

Weekly Class II 1st Place 15. SPORTS COLUMNS Deming Headlight Billy Armendariz

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 15. SPORTS COLUMNS El Defensor Chieftain Russell Huffman

Daily Division 1st Place 16. BEST REVIEW Santa Fe New Mexican Mark Tiarks

Daily Division 2nd Place 16. BEST REVIEW Albuquerque Journal Richard S. Dargan

Weekly Class I 1st Place 16. BEST REVIEW Los Alamos Daily Post Kirsten Laskey

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 16. BEST REVIEW Las Cruces Bulletin Elva K. Österreich

Daily Division 1st Place 17. EDITORIALS Santa Fe New Mexican Inez Russell Gomez

Daily Division 2nd Place 17. EDITORIALS Albuquerque Journal Jeff Tucker

Weekly Class I 1st Place 17. EDITORIALS Rio Rancho Observer Tracy Goldizen

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 17. EDITORIALS Taos News John Miller

Weekly Class II 1st Place 17. EDITORIALS Deming Headlight Algernon D’Ammassa

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 17. EDITORIALS Las Vegas Optic Phil Scherer

Daily Division 1st Place 18. BEST SERIES Source New Mexico Danielle Prokop, Diana Cervantes

Daily Division 2nd Place 18. BEST SERIES Santa Fe New Mexican Daniel J. Chacon, Robert Nott, Margaret O’Hara, Nathan Lederman

Weekly Division 1st Place 18. BEST SERIES El Defensor Chieftain Cathy Cook, Russell Huffman

Weekly Division 2nd Place 18. BEST SERIES Gallup Sun Molly Howell

Daily Class I 1st Place 19. BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE Albuquerque Journal Elise Kaplan, Matthew Reisen

Daily Class I 2nd Place 19. BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE Albuquerque Journal Geoff Grammer, Matthew Reisen, Elise Kaplan, Ryan Boetel, Gabrielle Porter, Lucas Peerman

Daily Class II 1st Place 19. BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE Roswell Daily Record Terri Harber

Daily Class II 2nd Place 19. BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE Alamogordo Daily News Nicole Maxwell, Jessica Onsurez

Weekly Class I 1st Place 19. BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE Taos News Geoffrey Plant

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 19. BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE Valencia County News-Bulletin Julia M. Dendinger and Clara Garcia

Weekly Class II 1st Place 19. BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE El Defensor Chieftain Cathy Cook, Jay Ann Cox, Russell Huffman, John Larson

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 19. BEST ONGOING / CONTINUING COVERAGE Ruidoso News Mike Smith

Daily Division 1st Place 20. EXPLANATION OF NEWS OPERATIONS OR NEWSPAPER Santa Fe New Mexican Phill Casaus

Daily Division 2nd Place 20. EXPLANATION OF NEWS OPERATIONS OR NEWSPAPER Las Cruces Sun-News Damien Willis

Weekly Division 1st Place 20. EXPLANATION OF NEWS OPERATIONS OR NEWSPAPER Rio Rancho Observer Tracy Goldizen

Daily Class I 1st Place 21. BEST SPECIAL SECTION Santa Fe New Mexican Staff, Santa Fe New Mexican

Daily Class I 2nd Place 21. BEST SPECIAL SECTION Albuquerque Journal Adrian Gomez, Helen Taylor, Leah Derrington

Daily Class II 1st Place 21. BEST SPECIAL SECTION Roswell Daily Record Roswell Daily Record Staff

Daily Class II 2nd Place 21. BEST SPECIAL SECTION Roswell Daily Record Roswell Daily Record Staff

Weekly Class I 1st Place 21. BEST SPECIAL SECTION Taos News Michael Tashji

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 21. BEST SPECIAL SECTION Rio Grande Sun Ari Levin

Daily Class I 1st Place 22. BEST MAGAZINE Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo staff

Daily Class I 2nd Place 22. BEST MAGAZINE Santa Fe New Mexican Deborah Villa

Weekly Division 1st Place 22. BEST MAGAZINE Taos News Michael Tashji

Weekly Division 2nd Place 22. BEST MAGAZINE Taos News Michael Tashji

Daily Class I 1st Place 23. BEST WEBSITE Santa Fe New Mexican Matt Dahlseid, Henry M Lopez and the Santa Fe New Mexican staff

Daily Class I 2nd Place 23. BEST WEBSITE Farmington Daily Times Jessica Onsurez

Daily Class II 1st Place 23. BEST WEBSITE Alamogordo Daily News Jessica Onsurez

Daily Class II 2nd Place 23. BEST WEBSITE Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Weekly Class I 1st Place 23. BEST WEBSITE Taos News Heather Owen

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 23. BEST WEBSITE Rio Rancho Observer Rio Rancho Observer staff

Weekly Class II 1st Place 23. BEST WEBSITE Ruidoso News--Las Cruces Sun-News Jessica Onsurez

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 23. BEST WEBSITE Ruidoso News--Carlsbad Current-Argus Jessica Onsurez

Daily Class I 1st Place 27. GENERAL NEWS PHOTO Albuquerque Journal Eddie Moore

Daily Class I 2nd Place 27. GENERAL NEWS PHOTO Santa Fe New Mexican Luis Sanchez

Daily Class II 1st Place 27. GENERAL NEWS PHOTO Roswell Daily Record Clarke Conde

Daily Class II 2nd Place 27. GENERAL NEWS PHOTO Roswell Daily Record Clarke Conde

Weekly Division 1st Place 27. GENERAL NEWS PHOTO Taos News Nathan Burton

Weekly Division 2nd Place 27. GENERAL NEWS PHOTO Taos News Nathan Burton

Daily Class I 1st Place 28. SPORTS PHOTO Santa Fe New Mexican Jim Weber

Daily Class I 2nd Place 28. SPORTS PHOTO Santa Fe New Mexican Gabriela Campos

Daily Class II 1st Place 28. SPORTS PHOTO Roswell Daily Record Blynn Beltran

Daily Class II 2nd Place 28. SPORTS PHOTO Roswell Daily Record Clarke Conde

Weekly Class I 1st Place 28. SPORTS PHOTO Taos News Nathan Burton

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 28. SPORTS PHOTO Taos News Nathan Burton

Weekly Class II 1st Place 28. SPORTS PHOTO El Defensor Chieftain Russell Huffman

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 28. SPORTS PHOTO Artesia Daily Press Jennifer Palma

Daily Division 1st Place 29. FEATURE PHOTO Santa Fe New Mexican Luis Sanchez

Daily Division 2nd Place 29. FEATURE PHOTO Santa Fe New Mexican Jim Weber

Weekly Class I 1st Place 29. FEATURE PHOTO Taos News Nathan Burton

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 29. FEATURE PHOTO Gallup Sun Jenny Pond

Daily Division 1st Place 30. PHOTO SERIES Albuquerque Journal Chancey Bush

Daily Division 2nd Place 30. PHOTO SERIES Santa Fe New Mexican Jim Weber, Gabriela Campos

Weekly Class I 1st Place 30. PHOTO SERIES Taos News Nathan Burton

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 30. PHOTO SERIES Rio Grande Sun Bob Eckert

Weekly Class II 1st Place 30. PHOTO SERIES Las Vegas Optic Maria Sanchez

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 30. PHOTO SERIES Artesia Daily Press Jessica Addington

Daily Class I 1st Place 31. ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY Santa Fe New Mexican Jim Weber, Gabriela Campos

Daily Class I 2nd Place 31. ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY Santa Fe New Mexican Jim Weber

Weekly Class I 1st Place 31. ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY Taos News Nathan Burton

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 31. ONLINE PHOTO GALLERY Valencia County News-Bulletin Felina Martinez

Daily Class I 1st Place 32. BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA Santa Fe New Mexican Gabriela Campos, Matt Dahlseid

Daily Class I 2nd Place 32. BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA Albuquerque Journal Chancey Bush

Weekly Class I 1st Place 32. BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA Taos News Nathan Burton, Geoffrey Plant and John Miller

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 32. BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA Taos News Nathan Burton

Daily Division 1st Place 33. SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD Santa Fe New Mexican Rick Artiaga

Daily Division 2nd Place 33. SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Weekly Division 1st Place 33. SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD Taos News Staff

Weekly Division 2nd Place 33. SELF-PROMOTION OR HOUSE AD Taos News Tyler Northrup

Daily Division 1st Place 34. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN Roswell Daily Record Sandra Martinez, Jessica Duran

Daily Division 2nd Place 34. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN Roswell Daily Record Sandra Martinez, Melanie Page

Daily Division 1st Place 35. BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION Albuquerque Journal Wanda Moeller and the Albuquerque Journal Advertising Team

Daily Division 2nd Place 35. BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION Albuquerque Journal Wanda Moeller and the Albuquerque Journal Advertising Team

Weekly Division 1st Place 35. BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION Taos News Staff

Weekly Division 2nd Place 35. BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION Taos News Staff

Daily Division 1st Place 36. INNOVATIVE ONLINE ADVERTISING Santa Fe New Mexican Henry M Lopez, Lisa Vakharia

Daily Division 2nd Place 36. INNOVATIVE ONLINE ADVERTISING Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Daily Division 1st Place 37. DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY Santa Fe New Mexican New Mexican staff

Daily Division 2nd Place 37. DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY Albuquerque Journal Wanda Moeller and Albuquerque Journal Advertising Staff

Weekly Division 1st Place 37. DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY Taos News Staff

Weekly Division 2nd Place 37. DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY Las Vegas Optic Maria Sanchez, Phil Scherer

Daily Division 1st Place 38. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — BLACK & WHITE Santa Fe New Mexican Lisa Vakharia

Daily Division 2nd Place 38. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — BLACK & WHITE Roswell Daily Record Sandra Martinez

Weekly Class I 1st Place 38. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — BLACK & WHITE Taos News Paul Gutches

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 38. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — BLACK & WHITE Taos News Staff

Weekly Class II 1st Place 38. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — BLACK & WHITE Las Vegas Optic Maria Sanchez

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 38. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — BLACK & WHITE Las Vegas Optic Maria Sanchez

Daily Class I 1st Place 39. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — COLOR Santa Fe New Mexican Lisa Vakharia

Daily Class I 2nd Place 39. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — COLOR Santa Fe New Mexican Trina Thomas

Daily Class II 1st Place 39. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — COLOR Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Daily Class II 2nd Place 39. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — COLOR Roswell Daily Record Sandra Martinez

Weekly Class I 1st Place 39. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — COLOR Taos News Staff

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 39. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — COLOR Taos News Paul Gutches

Weekly Class II 1st Place 39. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — COLOR Las Vegas Optic Maria Sanchez

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 39. RETAIL ADVERTISEMENT — COLOR Las Vegas Optic Maria Sanchez

Daily Class I 1st Place 40. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN — DIGITAL Santa Fe New Mexican Justin Bixler, Meghan Montelibano-Gorman, Maria Lopez Garcia

Daily Class I 2nd Place 40. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN — DIGITAL Santa Fe New Mexican Justin Bixler, Meghan Montelibano-Gorman

Weekly Class I 1st Place 40. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN — DIGITAL Taos News Jason Rodriguez

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 40. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN — DIGITAL Taos News Jason Rodriguez

Daily Class I 1st Place 41. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN — PRINT Santa Fe New Mexican Justin Bixler

Daily Class I 2nd Place 41. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN — PRINT Albuquerque Journal Wayne Barnard, Lois Trujillo, J.J. Collins, Mark Morales, Vincent Remedi

Weekly Class I 1st Place 41. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN — PRINT Taos News Staff

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 41. ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN — PRINT Taos News Chris Wood

Daily Division 1st Place 42. BEST WEB AD Santa Fe New Mexican Justin Bixler, Trina Thomas

Daily Division 2nd Place 42. BEST WEB AD Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Weekly Class I 1st Place 42. BEST WEB AD Taos News Chris Wood

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 42. BEST WEB AD Taos News Jason Rodriguez

Daily Class I 1st Place 43. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Santa Fe New Mexican Classified Team

Daily Class I 2nd Place 43. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Albuquerque Journal Wayne Barnard, Lois Trujillo, J J Collins, Mark Morales, Vincent Remedi

Daily Class II 1st Place 43. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Roswell Daily Record Noely Martinez

Daily Class II 2nd Place 43. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Roswell Daily Record Noely Martinez

Weekly Class I 1st Place 43. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Taos News Mary Chavez, Sean Linton, Felice Vasquez

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 43. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Rio Grande Sun Mary Bach

Weekly Class II 1st Place 43. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION El Defensor Chieftain Denise Ortega

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 43. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION Las Vegas Optic Maria Sanchez

Daily Class I 1st Place 44. HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT Santa Fe New Mexican Justin Bixler

Daily Class I 2nd Place 44. HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT Santa Fe New Mexican Justin Bixler

Daily Class II 1st Place 44. HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Daily Class II 2nd Place 44. HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Weekly Division 1st Place 44. HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT Taos News Staff

Weekly Division 2nd Place 44. HOUSE ADVERTISEMENT Valencia County News-Bulletin Clara Garcia

Daily Division 1st Place 45. BEST RATE CARD OR MARKETING KIT Albuquerque Journal Wanda Moeller, Wayne Barnard

Daily Division 2nd Place 45. BEST RATE CARD OR MARKETING KIT Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Weekly Division 1st Place 45. BEST RATE CARD OR MARKETING KIT El Defensor Chieftain Tamara Lombardi

Weekly Division 2nd Place 45. BEST RATE CARD OR MARKETING KIT Taos News Staff

Daily Class I 1st Place 46. SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE Santa Fe New Mexican Charity Valdez

Daily Class I 2nd Place 46. SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE Albuquerque Journal Wayne Barnard, Lois Trujillo and the Classified Advertising Team

Daily Class II 1st Place 46. SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE Roswell Daily Record Roswell Daily Record Staff

Daily Class II 2nd Place 46. SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE Roswell Daily Record Roswell Daily Record Staff

Weekly Class I 1st Place 46. SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE Taos News Staff

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 46. SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE Taos News Staff

Weekly Class II 1st Place 46. SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE El Defensor Chieftain Denise Ortega, Douglas Brown III

Weekly Class II 2nd Place 46. SHARED / SIGNATURE PAGE El Defensor Chieftain Tamara Lombardi

Daily Class I 1st Place 47. OBITUARY PAGE Santa Fe New Mexican Veronica Gonzalez, Rick Artiaga

Daily Class I 2nd Place 47. OBITUARY PAGE Albuquerque Journal Wayne Barnard, Delilah Guzman, Lois Trujillo

Daily Class II 1st Place 47. OBITUARY PAGE Roswell Daily Record David Sterling

Daily Class II 2nd Place 47. OBITUARY PAGE Roswell Daily Record David Sterling

Weekly Division 1st Place 47. OBITUARY PAGE Las Vegas Optic Maria Sanchez

Weekly Division 2nd Place 47. OBITUARY PAGE Las Vegas Optic Maria Sanchez

Daily Class I 1st Place 48. BEST FRONT PAGE DESIGN Santa Fe New Mexican New Mexican staff

Daily Class I 2nd Place 48. BEST FRONT PAGE DESIGN Santa Fe New Mexican New Mexican staff

Daily Class II 1st Place 48. BEST FRONT PAGE DESIGN Roswell Daily Record Toby Martinez

Daily Class II 2nd Place 48. BEST FRONT PAGE DESIGN Roswell Daily Record Toby Martinez

Weekly Class I 1st Place 48. BEST FRONT PAGE DESIGN Taos News Staff

Weekly Class I 2nd Place 48. BEST FRONT PAGE DESIGN Taos News Staff

All 1st Place 49. NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION ON-LINE PROMOTION Albuquerque Journal Robert Rivera

All 2nd Place 49. NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION ON-LINE PROMOTION Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Daily Division 1st Place 50. NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION PRINT PROMOTION Roswell Daily Record Aric Loomis

Monthly Division 1st Place 52. BEST FEATURE STORY Desert Exposure Elva K. Osterreich

Monthly Division 1st Place 54. FRONT PAGE DESIGN Desert Exposure Elva Osterreich

Daily Class I 1st Place 25. SUNSHINE AWARD Santa Fe New Mexican Daniel J. Chacon, Margaret O’Hara, Phaedra Haywood, Milan Simonich, Nicolas Gilmore, N. Lederman

Weekly Division 1st Place 25. SUNSHINE AWARD Taos News Geoffrey Plant and John Miller

Weekly Division 2nd Place 25. SUNSHINE AWARD Cibola Citizen Diego Lopez

Daily Class I 1st Place 24. PUBLIC SERVICE Albuquerque Journal Colleen Heild, Journal Editorial Board

Daily Class I 2nd Place 24. PUBLIC SERVICE Santa Fe New Mexican Daniel J. Chacon, Margaret O’Hara, Phaedra Haywood, Milan Simonich, Nicolas Gilmore, N. Lederman

Weekly Division 1st Place 24. PUBLIC SERVICE Las Vegas Optic Phil Scherer

Weekly Division 2nd Place 24. PUBLIC SERVICE Taos News Staff

Daily Class I 1st Place 26. GENERAL EXCELLENCE Albuquerque Journal Staff

Daily Class II 1st Place 26. GENERAL EXCELLENCE Roswell Daily Record Staff

Weekly Class I 1st Place 26. GENERAL EXCELLENCE Taos News Staff

Weekly Class II 1st Place 26. GENERAL EXCELLENCE Deming Headlight Staff

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Albuquerque Journal captured the “General Excellence” award at the 114th convention of the New Mexico Press Association in Albuquerque on Saturday as well as first-place awards in news, features, advertising and circulation.

“The Albuquerque Journal is a great read — there’s a real sense of place and a strong editorial voice, and plenty of those important moments of serendipity to be found throughout,” a judge from the Arizona Press Association said in making the award.

The general excellence award is based on the work in six newspapers over the year — three picked randomly by contest organizers and three selected by the newsroom. It is based on facets that go into producing a daily newspaper including the journalistic work from the newsroom, the opinion content from our editors and readers, and messages sold and delivered by our advertising department.

Journal investigative reporter Colleen Heild and the Journal Editorial Board received first place for their yearlong watchdog journalism covering the state of New Mexico’s Children, Youth & Families Department. As the judge said: “Way to shine a light on CYFD & their (sic) failed policies.”

The Journal sports department was honored with a first place for best sports coverage highlighted by “sunup to sundown coverage” of the state basketball championship at the Pit. Editor Randy Harrison led the way with staff reporters including James Yodice, Ken Sickenger, Geoff Grammer, Sean Reider, Rick Wright and Journal freelancers.

Photographer Eddie Moore was recognized with a first for best general news photo: “Firefighter in the winter forest.” Chancey Bush’s photo series on a tattoo convention, “Living Canvases,” also was a top winner. She also received second place for a multimedia video: “Love, Pain, Flamenco.”

The Journal was recognized for staying on the beat for ongoing, continuing coverage.

Justice reporters Matthew Reisen and Elise Kaplan were honored with first place for best ongoing, continuing coverage for multiple days of coverage as the Albuquerque Muslim community was under siege during a series of shootings. It turned out not to be anti-Muslim violence as reported by outside media, but instead the killings were traced to within the community.

The shooting death of a UNM student on campus after a feud between NMSU students and athletes was covered for multiple days by Grammer, Reisen, Kaplan, Ryan Boetel, Gabrielle Porter and Lucas Peerman. This coverage won second place in ongoing coverage.

Storyteller Ollie Reed told the first-place tale of a “dog miracle” and also received second place for environmental writing for unique New Mexico coverage of water in “Acequia Alarm.”

The Journal’s advertising department under Vice President for Advertising Wanda Moeller and circulation team under Vice President Robert Rivera won awards including:

  • Best use of advertising in a special section for “101 Things to do in New Mexico”
  • Best use of advertising in a special section: Moeller and the Albuquerque Journal Advertising Team
  • Best rate card or marketing kit: Moeller, Wayne Barnard
  • Newspaper subscription online promotion: Robert Rivera

Other awards included best headline writing to Alaina Mencinger, first, and Beth Trujillo, second.

Other second place winners include:

  • Editorial writer Jeff Tucker for an unsigned editorial: “Another day, another panel?” called a “Good analysis of the politician’s syllogism fallacy,” by the judge.
  • Matthew Narvaiz was a runner-up getting second in business reporting for unraveling Sunland Park cannabis sales near the Texas border.

First place

FEATURE WRITING: Ollie Reed Jr.

BEST HEADLINE WRITING: Alaina Mencinger

BEST ONGOING/CONTINUING COVERAGE: Elise Kaplan, Matthew Reisen

BEST SPORTS COVERAGE: Randy Harrison, James Yodice, Ken Sickenger and Journal freelancers

GENERAL NEWS PHOTO: Eddie Moore

PHOTO SERIES: Chancey Bush

BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION: Wanda Moeller and the Albuquerque Journal Advertising team

BEST RATE CARD OR MARKETING KIT: Wanda Moeller, Wayne Barnard

NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIP-TION ON-LINE PROMOTION: Robert Rivera

PUBLIC SERVICE: Colleen Heild, Journal Editorial Board

GENERAL EXCELLENCE: Albuquerque Journal Staff

Second Place

BUSINESS WRITING: Matthew Narvaiz

ENVIRONMENTAL OR AGRICULTURAL WRITING: Ollie Reed Jr.

BEST HEADLINE WRITING: Beth Trujillo

SPORTS COLUMNS: Geoff Grammer

BEST REVIEW: Richard S. Dargan

EDITORIALS: Jeff Tucker

BEST ONGOING/CONTINUING COVERAGE: Geoff Grammer, Matthew Reisen, Elise Kaplan, Ryan Boetel, Gabrielle Porter, Lucas Peerman

BEST SPECIAL SECTION: Adrian Gomez, Helen Taylor, Leah Derrington

BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA: Chancey Bush

BEST USE OF ADVERTISING IN A SPECIAL SECTION: Wanda Moeller and the Albuquerque Journal Advertising team

DESIGN & TYPOGRAPHY: Wanda Moeller and Albuquerque Journal Advertising staff

ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN — PRINT: Wayne Barnard, Lois Trujillo, J.J. Collins, Mark Morales, Vincent Remedi

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION: Wayne Barnard, Lois Trujillo, J J Collins, Mark Morales, Vincent Remedi

SHARED/SIGNATURE PAGE: Wayne Barnard, Lois Trujillo and the Classified Advertising team

OBITUARY PAGE: Wayne Barnard, Delilah Guzman, Lois Trujillo

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