PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Daily Star and the Casa Grande Dispatch have won top honors in the Arizona Newspapers Association’s annual awards announced Thursday.
The Arizona Daily Star earned Arizona Newspaper of the Year in the daily category. The Casa Grande Dispatch won for non-dailies.
Ian James and Rob O’Dell of The Arizona Republic were awarded 2020 Journalists of the Year in the daily newspapers category. Genesis Lara of the Nogales International won in the non-daily category.
The Arizona Republic’s Mary Jo Pitzel and David Wallace earned Story of the Year among dailies for their documentary on Arizona’s child welfare system, “They Have Names.”
Krista Allen of the Navajo Times won Story of the Year for non-dailies for coverage of the Navajo Generating Station.
Kelly Presnell of the Arizona Daily Star and Arianna Grainey of the Scottsdale Independent won Photographer of the Year awards. It is Presnell’s third consecutive year receiving the honor.
A total of 32 newspapers submitted 745 entries. They were judged by the New Mexico Press Association and The Associated Press West Regional bureau.
Because of the pandemic, the awards were given via Facebook livestream Thursday from a Kramer Media facility in Casa Grande.
Here is the full list of winners:
GENERAL EXCELLENCE
Division 1: Non-Daily circulation under 3,500
1st Place Nogales International Publisher: Manuel Coppola
2nd Place The Camp Verde Journal General Manager: Kyle Larson
3rd Place Arizona Capitol Times Associate Publisher: Luige del Puerto
Division 2: Non-Daily circulation 3,500 to 10,000
1st Place Casa Grande Dispatch Co-Publishers: Donovan Kramer Jr., Kara K. Cooper
2nd Place Green Valley News Publisher: Dru Sanchez
3rd Place Sedona Red Rock News General Manager: Kyle Larson
Division 3: Non-Daily circulation greater than 10,000
1st Place Navajo Times Publisher: Tom Aviso Jr.
Division 4: Daily circulation under 25,000
1st Place Herald/Review Publisher: Jennifer Sorenson
2nd Place Arizona Daily Sun Publisher: Colleen Brady
3rd Place Today’s News-Herald Publisher: Michael Quinn
Division 5: Daily circulation greater than 25,000
1st Place Arizona Daily Star Publisher: John D’Orlando
2nd Place The Arizona Republic Executive Editor: Greg Burton
Better Newspapers Contest of the Year Awards
STORY OF THE YEAR
Non-Daily
Krista Allen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Navajo Times - - - - - - - - - - ‘Navajo Generating Station’
Daily
Mary Jo Pitzel and - - - - - - - - - - The Arizona Republic - - - - - ‘They Have Names’
David Wallace
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Non-Daily
Arianna Grainey - - - - - - - - - - - - Scottsdale Independent
Daily
Kelly Presnell - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Arizona Daily Star
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Non-Daily
Genesis Lara - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nogales International
Daily
Ian James and - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Arizona Republic
Rob O’Dell
NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Non-Daily
Casa Grande Dispatch - - - - - - - - Co-Publishers: Donovan Kramer Jr., and Kara K. Cooper
Daily
Arizona Daily Star - - - - - - - - - - - Publisher: John D’Orlando
Newspaper Categories
Winning entries are listed by circulation division, then alphabetically by newspaper name, then numerically by place.
Division 1 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Under 3,500
Arizona Capitol Times Publisher: Luige del Puerto
1st Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
1st Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
1st Place Special Section or Magazine
2nd Place Page Design Excellence
3rd Place Special Section or Magazine
The Camp Verde Journal General Manager: Kyle Larson
1st Place Best Use of Photography
1st Place Newspaper Website
2nd Place Editorial Page Excellence
2nd Place Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
3rd Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
3rd Place Page Design Excellence
Coolidge Examiner Publisher: Donovan Kramer Jr.
2nd Place Special Section or Magazine
Eloy Enterprise Publisher: Donovan Kramer Jr.
3rd Place Best Use of Photography
Florence Reminder and
Blade-Tribune Publisher: Donovan Kramer Jr.
2nd Place Newspaper Website
3rd Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
3rd Place Editorial Page Excellence
Nogales International Publisher: Manuel Coppola
1st Place Page Design Excellence
1st Place Editorial Page Excellence
1st Place Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
2nd Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
2nd Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
2nd Place Best Use of Photography
3rd Place Newspaper Website
Division 2 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Under 3,500 – 10,000
Casa Grande Dispatch Co-Publishers: Donovan Kramer Jr., and Kara K. Cooper
1st Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
1st Place Editorial Page Excellence
1st Place Special Section or Magazine
2nd Place Page Design Excellence
Green Valley News Publisher: Dru Sanchez
1st Place Page Design Excellence
2nd Place Editorial Page Excellence
2nd Place Best Use of Photography
Division 2 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Under 3,500 – 10,000 / con’t
Maricopa Monitor Publisher: Kara K. Cooper
3rd Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
Payson Roundup Publisher: Brian Kramer
1st Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
2nd Place Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
2nd Place Special Section or Magazine
3rd Place Newspaper Website
The Phoenix Business Journal Publisher: Ray Schey
3rd Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
3rd Place Page Design Excellence
3rd Place Best Use of Photography
Sedona Red Rock News General Manager: Kyle Larson
2nd Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
2nd Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
2nd Place Newspaper Website
3rd Place Editorial Page Excellence
3rd Place Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
3rd Place Special Section or Magazine
White Mountain Independent Publisher: Brian Kramer
1st Place Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
Division 3 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Over 10,000
Navajo Times Publisher: Tom Arviso Jr.
1st Place Best Use of Photography
1st Place Newspaper Website
Division 4 – Dailies Circulation: Under 25,000
Arizona Daily Sun Publisher: Colleen Brady
1st Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
1st Place Page Design Excellence
1st Place Newspaper Website
2nd Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
2nd Place Editorial Page Excellence
2nd Place Best Use of Photography
Herald/Review Publisher: Jennifer Sorenson
1st Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
1st Place Best Use of Photography
2nd Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
2nd Place Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
2nd Place Special Section or Magazine
2nd Place Newspaper Website
3rd Place Page Design Excellence
3rd Place Editorial Page Excellence
Division 4 – Dailies Circulation: Under 25,000 / con’t
Today’s News-Herald Publisher: Mike Quinn
1st Place Editorial Page Excellence
1st Place Special Section or Magazine
2nd Place Page Design Excellence
3rd Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
3rd Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
3rd Place Best Use of Photography
3rd Place Newspaper Website
Division 5 – Dailies Circulation: Over 25,000
Arizona Daily Star Publisher: John D’Orlando
1st Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
1st Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
1st Place Page Design Excellence
1st Place Editorial Page Excellence
1st Place Best Use of Photography
1st Place Newspaper Website
2nd Place Special Section or Magazine
3rd Place Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
The Arizona Republic Executive Editor: Greg Burton
1st Place Community Service/Journalistic Achievement
1st Place Special Section or Magazine
2nd Place Reporting & News Writing Excellence
2nd Place Departmental News & Copy Editing Excellence
2nd Place Page Design Excellence
2nd Place Editorial Page Excellence
2nd Place Best Use of Photography
2nd Place Newspaper Website
Individual Categories
Winning entries are listed by circulation division, then alphabetically by newspaper name, then numerically by place.
Division 1 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Under 3,500
Arizona Capitol Times
2nd Place … … Best News Story … … Andrew Nicla
Mine near Grand Canyon uses polluted water to control dust
2nd Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Andrew Nicla
Campaign finance websites still broken as election 2020 nears
2nd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Dillon Rosenblatt, Katie Campbell
Firefighters say cities are breaking workers comp law
2nd Place … … Best Multimedia Storytelling … … Dillon Rosenblatt
Attorney plagiarizes Supreme Court justices in quest to join Arizona Court of Appeals
2nd Place … … Online Coverage of Breaking News … … Julia Shumway, Arren Kimbel-Sannit
Arizona lawmakers mull shutting down session to prevent coronavirus spread
3rd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Julia Shumway, Arren Kimbel-Sannit, Andrew Nicla, Hank Stephenson
State Capitol: Sex, Power, Influence
Arizona Capitol Times / con’t
3rd Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Dillon Rosenblatt
Education Department Data Blunder
3rd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Dillon Rosenblatt
Timed Out
3rd Place … … Best Multimedia Storytelling … … Julia Shumway, Dillon Rosenblatt
The Breakdown: Oops?
3rd Place … … Online Coverage of Breaking News … … Julia Shumway
Lobbyist: Ugenti-Rita sexually harassed her before Shooter expulsion
The Camp Verde Journal
2nd Place … … Best Sports Story … … Michael Dixon
Mingus survives tense final inning to beat Greenway
2nd Place … … Best Feature Story … … Jon Hecht
Death of John Waddell
2nd Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … Christopher Fox Graham
County limits our COVID-19 information
Coolidge Examiner
1st Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series… … Rofida Khairalla
Fire at Bright International plant
1st Place … … Investigative Reporting… … Rofida Khairalla
Coolidge man left without a home
3rd Place … … Best Sports Story… … Joey Chenoweth
Coolidge vanquishes demons
3rd Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary… … Joey Chenoweth
Protesters show they’re not ready
Nogales International
1st Place … … Best News Story … … Nick Phillips
Rancher still seeks answers
1st Place … … Best Sports Story … … Jonathan Clark
Rio Rico earns dramatic OT win
1st Place … … Best Feature Story … … Genesis Lara
Volunteers share language
1st Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Nick Phillips
Cubans wait their turn
1st Place … … Best Multimedia Storytelling … … Nick Phillips
Mary Lou Jimenez cooked for the stars
2nd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Jonathan Clark, Genesis Lara, Nick Phillips
Border crossing restrictions
The Wickenburg Sun
1st Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … Jeanie Hankins
Newspapers are not dead
3rd Place … … Best News Story … … Shawn Byrne
Love triangle arson
3rd Place … … Best Feature Story … … Shawn Byrne
Firefighter gives life after death
Division 2 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Under 3,500 – 10,000
Arizona Jewish Post
1st Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Phyllis Braun, Debe Campbell,
Korene Charnofsky Cohen, Shayne Tarquinio, Michelle Shapiro
Voices of Hope
3rd Place … … Best Headline … … Phyllis Braun
Love, poetry, community: a family’s unique response to cancer
Casa Grande Dispatch
1st Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Brian Wright
Sins of the father
3rd Place … … Best News Story … … Jim Headley
ACLU examines cameras in Pinal jail
3rd Place … … Best Sports Story … … Maria Vasquez
Leader of the Sand Sharks
The Glendale Star
1st Place … … Best Headline … … Tom Scanlon
Police ‘Ring’ in the New Year
Green Valley News
2nd Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Kim Smith
A death in Sahuarita
2nd Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … Dan Shearer
Supervisors, you’re killing us!
Maricopa Monitor
1st Place … … Best Sports Story … … Joey Chenoweth
Estrada ends prestigious Pathway career
1st Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … Joey Chenoweth
A grown man choking a child
2nd Place … … Best News Story … … Katie Sawyer
‘Not My Day to Die’
2nd Place … … Best Sports Story … … Katie Sawyer
Maricopa boxer brushes off ‘haters’
2nd Place … … Best Feature Story … … Katie Sawyer
From homelessness to prestige
Payson Roundup
1st Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Michele Nelson
Domestic violence series
1st Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Keith Morris
Special Olympics/Special Needs
1st Place … … Best Feature Story … … Michele Nelson
As simple as picking up a brush
1st Place … … Best Multimedia Storytelling … … Alexis Bechman
Appeals Court rules deputy should get workers’ comp
1st Place … … Online Coverage of Breaking News … … Alexis Bechman
Fire chief goes missing on Arizona Trail
2nd Place … … Best Headline … … Alexis Bechman
Runs out of juice
2nd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Alexis Bechman
Tonto Creek Tragedy
Payson Roundup / con’t
2nd Place … … Best Multimedia Storytelling … … Alexis Bechman
Thanksgiving tragedy: Details of Tonto Basin incident revealed in reports
3rd Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Alexis Bechman
Appeals Court rules deputy should get workers’ comp
3rd Place … … Best Multimedia Storytelling … … Keith Morris
Special Needs Rodeo
The Phoenix Business Journal
1st Place … … Best News Story … … Angela Gonzales
A budding business: Inside the impact of legalizing marijuana in Arizona
2nd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Patrick O’Grady
Taking the big risk: Transgender workers transition in the office with varied results
3rd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Lindsay Walker
Buried: How Arizona’s student debt is hindering its economy
Sedona Red Rock News
3rd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Scott Shumaker
Sedona Airport series
3rd Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Michael Dixon
Sedona Red Rock High School Girls Basketball Team
3rd Place … … Best Feature Story … … Ron Eland
Mother meets her daughter 54 years later
White Mountain Independent
2nd Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Andy Staten
State Wrestling Tourney
Division 3 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Over 10,000
Ahwatukee Foothills News
2nd Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Zach Alvira
Pride coach email scandal series
3rd Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Zach Alvira
Sports Coverage for Ahwatukee
Apache Junction Independent
2nd Place … … Best News Story … … Richard Dyer
Active-shooter exercise
East Valley Tribune
1st Place … … Best Sports Story … … Zach Alvira
Behind play heard ‘round the state
2nd Place … … Best Sports Story … … Zach Alvira
Diego Navarro succeeding in honor of late father
Explorer Newspaper
3rd Place … … Best Headline … … Logan Burtch-Buus
Balancing bodies at Swan Pilates
3rd Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … Logan Burtch-Buus
You will miss me when I’m gone
Division 3 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Over 10,000 / con’t
Navajo Times
1st Place … … Best Headline … … Cindy Yurth
COVID turning rodeo ‘stock market’ bullish and assorted headlines
1st Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Krista Allen
Navajo Generating Station closure
1st Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Cindy Yurth
Waiting for water
1st Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Quentin Jodie
Arizona basketball
1st Place … … Best Feature Story … … Cindy Yurth
A fruitful legacy
1st Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … Pauly Denetclaw
Children, don’t let the ‘ifs’ define you
2nd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Arlyssa Becenti
NTEC purchases out-of-state mines
2nd Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Quentin Jodie, Sunnie Clahchischiligi
Arizona high school track/cross-country
2nd Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … Cindy Yurth
The hitchhiker diaries
3rd Place … … Best Sports Story … … Quentin Jodie
Raising rankest bulls for PBR is family’s passion
Peoria Independent
3rd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Philip Haldiman
The pandemic hits Peoria
3rd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Philip Haldiman
A look back at 20 years of the Peoria Independent
SanTan Sun News
2nd Place … … Best Headline … … Cecilia Chan
At 100, EV ‘Bread Man’ is no loafer around an oven
Scottsdale Independent
1st Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Melissa Rosequist
The battle of addiction during the time of novel coronavirus
2nd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Melissa Rosequist
The cost of American freedom
3rd Place … … Best News Story … … Melissa Rosequist
VP Mike Pence visits Scottsdale to discuss thriving Hispanic economy
Tucson Weekly
2nd Place … … Best Feature Story … … Emily Dieckman
Facing Cancer Without Insurance
3rd Place … … Best Feature Story … … Emily Dieckman
The Most Traditional Family You’ve Ever Met
West Valley View
1st Place … … Best News Story … … Tom Scanlon
Five to be tried for 2018 murder
Division 4 – Dailies Circulation: Under 25,000
Arizona Daily Sun
1st Place … … Best News Story … … Scott Buffon
The long road to safety above Williams
1st Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Scott Buffon
Footage shows Kyle Martinson yell for help before death
1st Place … … Best Sports Story … … Cody Bashore
Life changes tweak Kyle Lobstein’s approach in decade-long career
1st Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Lance Hartzler
Northern Arizona Men’s Basketball
1st Place … … Best Feature Story … … Scott Buffon
Star Wars star endorses Flagstaff Bookmans for returning long-lost vinyl
1st Place … … Online Coverage of Breaking News … … Arizona Daily Sun Staff
Museum Fire coverage
2nd Place … … Best News Story … … Adrian Skabelund
Flagstaff grapples with $111 million in unfunded public safety pension
2nd Place … … Best Sports Story … … Lance Hartzler
Local sports squads give back to community in wake of Museum Fire
2nd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Sam McManis
Words, Words, Words
3rd Place … … Best Sports Story … … Michael Hartman
Coconino baseball gets blessing from the Los Angeles Angels
Daily Independent
1st Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Christopher Caraveo
Where is home for police
2nd Place … … Best Feature Story … … Christopher Caraveo
Did someone die - home death disclosures
3rd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Matt Roy
Shelter inspires lifestyle changes
Herald/Review
1st Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Lyda Longa
Seeking Asylum
2nd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Alexis Ramanjulu
Troubled school district faces continued challenges
2nd Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Shar Porier
Water Issues
2nd Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Alexis Ramanjulu
Beat - Buena Football
2nd Place … … Best Multimedia Storytelling … … Photo Journalist Mark Levy
Passion Fuels Sierra Vista Paramedic
3rd Place … … Best News Story … … Shar Porier
Mystery solved: Sculpture missing for 50 years found in Bisbee
3rd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Shar Porier
Border Wall
3rd Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Alexis Ramanjulu
SOCO Sports
3rd Place … … Best Feature Story … … Alexis Ramanjulu
Reliving the past: Bisbee remembers deportation on 102nd anniversary
Division 5 – Dailies Circulation: Over 25,000
Arizona Daily Star
1st Place … … Best Headline … … Dave Ord
Assorted headlines
1st Place … … Best News Story … … Justin Sayers, Jasmine Demers
Nursing homes, a COVID-19 hotbed
1st Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Curt Prendergast
Border wall
1st Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Carol Ann Alaimo
Shoddy pavers
1st Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Caitlin Schmidt
Title IX
1st Place … … Best Feature Story … … Henry Brean
Sacred ground
2nd Place … … Best Headline … … Martin Rosales
Assorted headlines
2nd Place … … Best News Story … … Jasmine Demers
Family of Tucson’s first COVID-19 victim wants his life to mean something
2nd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Curt Prendergast
Asylum seekers
2nd Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Patty Machelor and Danyelle Khmara
Rising rents driving out families
2nd Place … … Best Sports Story … … Caitlin Schmidt
Doggone fast
2nd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Tony Davis
Water system heading toward ‘train wreck’
2nd Place … … Online Coverage of Breaking News … … Bruce Pascoe, Justin Spears, Alec White, Michael Lev, Greg Hansen
The day college sports stopped
3rd Place … … Best Headline … … Elizabeth Quinlan
Assorted headlines
3rd Place … … Best News Story … … Danyelle Khmara
Tucson teen fights deportation
3rd Place … … Investigative Reporting … … Justin Sayers, Carol Ann Alaimo
University of Arizona finances
3rd Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Curt Prendergast
Guns quietly smuggled across border
3rd Place … … Best Multimedia Storytelling … … Curt Prendergast
Border wall built with drug money, but won’t stop drugs
The Arizona Republic
1st Place … … Best Sports Story … … Greg Moore
Roman Rozell escaped a dead-end path, survived combat, and is living his wrestling dreams
1st Place … … Best Feature Story … … Ian James
How a trickle of water is breathing life into the parched Colorado River Delta
1st Place … … Enterprise Reporting … … Alden Woods
The mental health system left Curtis Bagley on the street. Now a man is dead.
1st Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … Joanna Allhands
“Why do we ignore what principals do for schools?”
1st Place … … Best Multimedia Storytelling … … Mary Jo Pitzl, Dianna Nanez, David Wallace, Nick Oza
“They Have Names”
2nd Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Jeff Metcalfe
Coverage of Arizona athletes in Olympic sports
2nd Place … … Best Feature Story … … Debra Utacia Krol
Wendsler Nosie followed a lifelong path to Resolution copper mine protest
The Arizona Republic / con’t
2nd Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … John D’Anna
Paper chase: How one reporter’s epic quest for toilet paper explains panic buying
3rd Place … … Best Sustained Coverage or Series … … Ian James, Rob O’Dell, Mark Henle
Arizona’s Next Water Crisis
3rd Place … … Best Sports Story … … John D’Anna
How many racehorse deaths is too many?
3rd Place … … Best Team, Sport or Sports Beat Coverage … … Jeff Metcalfe
Arizona State athletics
3rd Place … … Best Column, Feature or Commentary … … Laurie Roberts
“County Assessor should step down”
Photography Categories
Winning entries are LISTED BY CATEGORY, then circulation Division, then numerically by Place.
BEST NEWS PHOTOGRAPH
Division 1 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Under 3,500
1st Place Daulton Venglar The Camp Verde Journal Out of Africa now drive-thru wildlife park
2nd Place Jonathan Clark Nogales International Pandemic effect takes hold
3rd Place Daulton Venglar The Camp Verde Journal Cliff Castle hosts fire evacuation drill
Division 2 Non-Dailies Circulation: 3,500-10,000
1st Place Alexis Bechman Payson Roundup Man gunned down at gas station
2nd Place Oscar Perez Casa Grande Dispatch Man extricated
3rd Place David Jolkovski Sedona Red Rock News Woman dies near Midgley
Division 3 Non-Dailies Circulation: Over 10,000
1st Place Logan Burtch-Buus Explorer Newspaper A Sticky Sensation
2nd Place Donovan Quintero Navajo Times Matriarch
3rd Place Donovan Quintero Navajo Times Code Talker
Combined Divisions: 4 & 5 – Dailies Circulations: Under 25,000 & Over 25,000
1st Place Mamta Popat Arizona Daily Star Nasal Swab
2nd Place Jake Bacon Arizona Daily Sun Fire in the sky
3rd Place Mark Levy Herald/Review Taking out the trash
BEST SPORTS PHOTOGRAPH
Division 1 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Under 3,500
1st Place Richard Johnson The Wickenburg Sun Rough landing
2nd Place Jonathan Clark Nogales International Claudette Ruiz competes in the hurdles
3rd Place Daulton Venglar The Camp Verde Journal Kai Zimmerman
Division 2 – Non-Dailies Circulation: 3,500 – 10,000
1st Place David Jolkovski Sedona Red Rock News Race Pace Club
2nd Place Keith Morris Payson Roundup Wrestler Jimmy Johnson
3rd Place Oscar Perez Casa Grande Dispatch Jordan Morris catches a pass
BEST SPORTS PHOTOGRAPH / con’t
Division 3 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Over 10,000
1st Place Donovan Quintero Navajo Times Tough luck
2nd Place Logan Burtch-Buus Explorer Newspaper Nighthawk Liftoff
3rd Place Arianna Grainey Queen Creek Independent Little Barrel Racer
Combined Divisions: 4 & 5 – Dailies Circulations: Under 25,000 & Over 25,000
1st Place Mike Christy Arizona Daily Star Torrential track meet
2nd Place Kelly Presnell Arizona Daily Star Soccer punch
3rd Place Cody Bashore Arizona Daily Sun An exclamation point
BEST FEATURE PHOTOGRAPH
Division 1 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Under 3,500
1st Place Daulton Venglar The Camp Verde Journal Duncan Brings Dancing to Camp Verde
2nd Place Daulton Venglar The Camp Verde Journal Nighthawks
3rd Place Genesis Lara Nogales International Nogales resident Conrado Humberto Villegas
Division 2 – Non-Dailies Circulation: 3,500 -10,000
1st Place David Jolkovski Sedona Red Rock News Raw Electrical Illumination
2nd Place Keith Morris Payson Roundup Gladiator water crawl
3rd Place Jorge Encinas Green Valley News Don’t touch ’em
Division 3 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Over 10,000
1st Place Donovan Quintero Navajo Times Hello, little one!
2nd Place Ravonelle Yazzie Navajo Times Tiny cowboy
3rd Place Arianna Grainey Scottsdale Independent Folklorico Flourish
Division: 4 – Dailies Circulation: Under 25,000
1st Place Mark Levy Herald/Review Amazing Owen
2nd Place Cody Bashore Arizona Daily Sun Overcome by the emotions
3rd Place Mark Levy Herald/Review Drying Hawk
Division: 5 – Dailies Circulation: Over 25,000
1st Place Kelly Presnell Arizona Daily Star Bobbing for apples
2nd Place Josh Galemore Arizona Daily Star She must have liked me
3rd Place Rebecca Sasnett Arizona Daily Star Pandemic and prom
BEST FEATURE PHOTO LAYOUT or PHOTO STORY
Division 1 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Under 3,500
1st Place Daulton Venglar The Camp Verde Journal Happy Fourth of July
2nd Place Wickenburg Sun The Wickenburg Sun Gold Rush Days
3rd Place Daulton Venglar The Camp Verde Journal Clowning Around in Clarkdale
Division 2 – Non-Dailies Circulation: 3,500 -10,000
1st Place Jim Poulin The Phoenix Business Journal Precious metals
2nd Place Dan Shearer Green Valley News Pence Visit
3rd Place Alexis Bechman Payson Roundup Bikepacking the Arizona Trail
BEST FEATURE PHOTO LAYOUT or PHOTO STORY / con’t
Division 3 – Non-Dailies Circulation: Over 10,000
1st Place Arianna Grainey Queen Creek Independent Messy Fest Held in Queen Creek
2nd Place Arianna Grainey Queen Creek Independent Flat Track Racing
3rd Place Arianna Grainey Scottsdale Independent Parada Del Sol
Division 5 – Dailies Circulation: Over 25,000
1st Place Josh Galemore Arizona Daily Star Audrey Jimenez, Tucson wrestler
2nd Place Mamta Popat Arizona Daily Star Behind the masks
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