Four Tri-City News reporters earned top honours in a prestigious newspaper award competition that saw dozens of B.C. community newspapers recognized for their commitment to creative, forward-thinking and hard-hitting journalism.
In addition, your hometown newspaper took home gold in the general excellence category for its circulation size at the BC and Yukon Community Newspaper Association’s virtual awards ceremony Saturday, April 25.
The Ma Murray Awards are an annual event recognizing the best in journalism, ad design and newspaper campaigns.
Stefan Labbé won gold in the photo essay category for his visual story the “Circo Osorio visits the Tri-Cities,” and Mario Bartel earned a bronze in the same category for his visual coverage of the PoCo Grand Prix bike race. Gary McKenna won silver for a business feature “Priced out of the neighbourhood?”, and editor Richard Dal Monte won silver for his editorial “Port Moody mayor should step aside until his case is fully resolved.”
Other top awards went to Labbé and Bartel, who won bronze for their multi-media feature story, ”2019: The Year in Pictures.”
Former publisher Shannon Mitchell won bronze for The Tri-City News A-List in the Special Publication Award, over 25,000, and former creative director Matt Blair won gold in two advertising categories: one for his MacKenzie Park ad campaign, and another for his Accurite ad design.
