Cardinal News wins 21 awards in Virginia Press Association contest

Cardinal Information gained 21 awards within the Virginia Press Affiliation Information Contest competitors for its work throughout 2022, together with a best-in-show by staffers Markus Schmidt and Megan Schanbel for his or her protection of flooding in Buchanan and Tazewell counties.

This was the primary 12 months that Cardinal Information was eligible to compete within the contest that acknowledges excellent information protection in Virginia.

Cardinal gained 11 first-place awards, 4 second-place awards and 6 third-place awards within the on-line information class.

All 4 reporters on Cardinal’s 2022 workers and 5 of its freelancers had been acknowledged Saturday for his or her work throughout VPA’s convention in Brief Pump.

Staffers Megan Schnabel, Markus Schmidt and Susan Cameron gained a number of awards, as did freelancers Robert Anderson and Ralph Berrier. Different award winners had been staffers Grace Mamon and Dwayne Yancey and freelancers Lakin Keene, Sarah Wade and Randy Walker.

“We’re delighted to be acknowledged for our work so shortly,” mentioned Luanne Rife, government director. “After I take a look at the depth and the breadth of the award-winning work produced by our journalists, I’m in awe. And I’m delighted every morning to maintain studying their tales.”  

Megan Schnabel gained a number of first place awards for her reporting as Cardinal’s enterprise author previous to her promotion to managing editor. She earned high place for in-depth reporting on hospital funds, and for a basic information photograph taken within the aftermath of flooding in Buchanan County. 

She shared a primary place award for basic information writing with Markus Schmidt for his or her protection of extreme flash flooding in Southwest Virginia in addition to the best-in-show within the on-line class for that protection. Schnabel additionally took second place for a function writing portfolio that included tales on St. Charles and Pound; she earned third place for well being, science and environmental writing for tales on the nursing scarcity and Bristol abortion debate.

Schmidt, Cardinal’s political reporter, additionally earned first place for public security writing that included a narrative on the well being division rationing Narcan. He shared a second-place basic information writing award with Susan Cameron for his or her work on expert video games of probability litigation. Schmidt additionally positioned third for presidency writing on a bundle of tales on crumbling colleges. 

Cameron, who relies in Bristol, earned two further third place awards for schooling writing and for a function profile on an engineer turned playwright.

As well as, Schmidt, Cameron and government editor Dwayne Yancey had been acknowledged with a 3rd place award for in-depth or investigative reporting for his or her small nuclear reactor protection.

Grace Mamon, Cardinal’s Danville-based reporter, earned first place in function profile writing for her story on a bare-knuckle boxing champ.

Cardinal freelancer Ralph Berrier gained two first place awards for schooling writing and for a function writing portfolio that included tales on the primary built-in Little League workforce based mostly in Norton, public well being nurse Mary Anne Corridor and paperwork discovered from the 1912 Carroll County courthouse shootout. Berrier took second place for a basic information photograph of Corridor.

Robert Anderson positioned first for each a photograph and a function story on broadcaster Justin Ditmore’s return to the sales space from a coma. 

Lakin Keene, first place breaking information photograph of July flooding in Buchanan County.

Sarah Wade earned second place for her story on cavers in Lee County discovering the skelton of an Ice Age cat.

Randy Walker took third place in persona or portrait photograph for web pioneer Bernie Cosell.