For the second year in a row, The Colorado Sun captured the prestigious Public Service journalism award — this time for its reporting on the impact of proposed cuts to Medicaid — as staff members claimed 27 total honors, including 13 first-place awards, in the four-state Top of the Rockies Excellence in Journalism competition.
Reporters John Ingold, Jesse Paul and Jennifer Brown collaborated on the winning Public Service entry, which was judged against work from “extra-large” newsrooms — those with 15 or more staffers — from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming. The awards were announced Saturday night at a reception during the annual convention of the Colorado Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in Denver.
“This is a particularly exciting group of awards,” said Sun Editor Dana Coffield. “They show the incredible agility of our staff and freelancers to tell important and resonant stories across Colorado and across diverse subject matter. I feel proud of this work and hope our readers appreciate the shoulder we put into it.”
The Sun was honored with more first-place awards than any other news organization across the region and won more overall awards than any other Colorado news outlet in the extra-large category.
The Sun also won first for Solutions Journalism, which focuses on responses to social problems, with the award recognizing its ongoing “Aging in Colorado” series. Staffers collaborated to examine the challenges facing a significant demographic in the nation’s third-fastest aging population. (The entry featured stories by Brown, Tamara Chuang, Brian Eason, Larry Ryckman, Kevin Simpson and Parker Yamasaki.)
“We’re thrilled to be recognized by our colleagues with these awards, but our readers and supporters deserve the real kudos for making our nonprofit possible,” said Sun publisher Larry Ryckman. “We’re especially proud of the impact our journalism has had on so many people in Colorado, as acknowledged by our public service and solutions awards. This is why we do this work.”
In addition to her contribution to the Public Service project and a role in the aging series, Brown also claimed individual first-place honors for her health feature on a traveling oncologist, her arts and entertainment feature on a Five Points jazz festival and a politics feature on how Medicaid cuts hurt families caring for adult children with disabilities. She added a third-place award for an agriculture and environment story about a family cited by authorities for growing food on their property.
Ingold also won first-place recognition for his science and technology feature on groundbreaking cancer research, a second-place honor for his story detailing the impact on a large hospital that had to pause surgeries as well as recognition for his witty headline on a piece about how to improve the hometown baseball team: We asked for your big ideas to fix the Colorado Rockies. You made some great pitches (unlike the Rockies).
Other Sun first-place honors went to politics writer Jesse Paul for his piece on a Colorado lawmaker’s toxic work environment; Olivia Prentzel for her science and technology story on a woman who fought back against Flock camera charges; Michael Booth for his feature on the fraught evolution of Rocky Flats; Parker Yamasaki’s examination of how interstate power lines impact rural land; and freelancer Robert Davis’ social justice entry for the difficult choices faced by people living in RVs.
The Sun’s detailed examination of southern Colorado’s relationship with a vital waterway, called “What is a river?” earned second-place honors in special topics reporting for Michael Booth, Jennifer Brown, Tracy Ross, Jerd Smith, Parker Yamasaki, Lance Benzel, Kevin Simpson and Jason Blevins, who collaborated on that series.
For individual second-place finishes, columnist Mike Littwin was recognized for a collection of his work; Taylor Dolven for her reporting on what happens when ICE deports a family; Shannon Mullane for her piece on a group facing grief on the Colorado River; and Davis for a social justice entry on homelessness among older Coloradans.
The Sun swept the cartoons category, with Jim Morrissey taking first place, the tandem of R. Alan Brooks and Cori Redford nabbing second for their multipanel “What’d I Miss?” collection (after three consecutive years of first-place finishes) and longtime sports cartoonist Drew Litton taking third.
In other visual journalism, Sun freelance photographer Mike Sweeney won first place for his photo package documenting a vigil for detained immigrant rights activist Jeanette Vizguerra, Kevin Jeffers took third in feature page design for his Colorado Sunday work, and Dolven and Jeffers also took third for their informational graphic charting the state’s lawsuits against the Trump administration.
Tamara Chuang won third-place honors for her story on job hunters using artificial intelligence, while Paul took third for his politics feature on a proposed ban on semiautomatic weapons.
Among other Colorado news outlets winning first-place awards in the extra-large category, the Denver Gazette was honored with seven, KUNC had three, the Denver Post and the Colorado Springs Gazette each had two and Colorado Public Radio had one.
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