The Iowa Newspaper Association awards ceremony Thursday night recognized newspapers for their work between October 2022 and August 2023. The winning entries can be found here.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette won 40 awards. Three I had a minor hand in are Best Sports Section, Best Headline Writing, and Best Total Newspaper Design for Class V newspapers (the largest). I suppose General Excellence could be in there, since it’s based on point totals from all other categories. The sports section and headline entries — selected issues from specific weeks — include days I worked. I laid out most of the sports section for April 30, 2023, which included Drake Relays coverage. Those categories are all team efforts, so my name will never be on them, nor on any similar award in previous years. I guess I have to buzz my kazoo about it this way.
The North Tama Telegraph won some awards too.
The official INA press release has a typo in it: “Advertisiting”.