WNA Awards

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of going to the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation awards banquet in Appleton. I received a few awards for some multimedia and photos that I have done in the past year. The newspapers are divided into circulation classes, and The Mashfield News-Herald is in class C. They also hand out a book of all the winners and you get to see how the judges critiqued you photos, which I find the most interesting.

First - General News Photo

A member of the Wisconsin National Guard shouts out to his family as he gets off the plane at Volk Field after returning from a year-long deployment to Iraq in January, 2010.

Second - Feature Photo

Patrick Squires, president of the Marshfield Area Juggling Club, juggles and tosses pins with Nate Seefeldt of Wisconsin Dells, during a club meeting on Monday, April 5, 2011 at the Chestnut Center for the Arts.

Third - Photo Essay

First - Creative Use of Multimedia

 This was for our series at the paper "Home Grown" where we featured local food growers and food sources. We featured photo galleries and audio slideshows online. I only have access to my audio slideshows, but the other photographer at our newspaper worked on the project too.

Second -  Web Special Project

This was for the same "Home Grown" series where online we featured recipes, photo galleries and webs stories, as well as audio slideshows. This award was also for our staff writers. 

There were a few other awards too, First - Special Section for a story that the staff at The Stevens Point Journal worked on, "Back from Iraq: Voices of the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team" for which I also took photos for. Second - All-Around Newspaper Photography for our photo staff (of two:)) at the Marshfield News-Herald. 

All photos copyright of the Marshfield News-Herald.