Awards
The following are some of the awards and recognitions received by the newsroom of the York Daily Record/Sunday News and its affiliated digital products in the past 20 years:
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association awards
-Pennsylvania’s Newspaper of the Year Award 2001 (tied for second place), 2003 (second place), 2004 (first place), 2011 (first place)
-PNA Foundation Public Service Award: 2002-2005, 2007 and 2009-2011.
-Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s G. Richard Dew Award for Journalistic Service (PNA’s highest honor): Won seven times between 1991 and 2009.
-Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s Readership Initiative Award recognizes Pennsylvania newspapers that accept and create a community of readers through innovative initiatives: Placed in the top two six times since 2006. In 2011, the newspaper placed first.
-Sweepstakes Award from the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors (for the most points in a circulation division in the annual Keystone Press Awards): Won or tied 18 times since 1990.
Other awards
- American Society of Newspaper Editors: 2011, finalist in the competition for online storytelling. Jason Plotkin’s "Carrying Darisabel: A documentary film".
- The Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for Jason Plotkin’s “Carrying Darisabel” project, 2011. This Emmy is the first Mid-Atlantic Emmy for a newspaper-based organization competing directly against TV news organizations.
- The Editor & Publisher’s EPPY Award in the category of Best Enterprise/Investigative Video, honoring the Best Media-Affiliated Websites (competed in division for sites with 250,000 to 1 million unique monthly visitors) for Jason Plotkin’s documentary, “Carrying Darisabel”.
- Newspaper Excellence in Cyberspace Awards:
-Best Application of Social Networking 2011 (second place).
- Best Online Campaign 2011 (first place)
- John V.R. Bull Freedom of Information Award (Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors): 2002, 2003, 2005,2008 and 2012.
- Best of Show (Newswriting) and Public Service awards, Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors: 2002 (for York Riots)
- Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award: Public Service Report, 2001 (tie).
- Pennsylvania Newspaper Foundation John Fisher Internet Vision Award, 2010, James McClure recipient.
- Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award for coverage of Ray Krone’s release from death row: 2003.
- Investigative Reporters and Editors Award: 2009, finalist in the under 100,000 circulation category for reporting on Finances of Nonprofit Angel Food Ministries” – Melissa Nann Burke. Burke was also a finalist in Livingston Awards for Young Journalists competition, 2011. Burke also won Religion News Association Cassels award in 2010 and 2011.
- National Society of Newspaper Columnist competition, under 100,000 circulation category, Finalist: Mike Argento, 2011.
More information on awards won by the York Daily Record and its journalists is available at The YDR Insider.
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