Emily Schabacker was awarded Outstanding Young Journalist, Sherry Quinley won Outstanding Sales Professional, and Cardinal News took home 47 other journalism awards, including 18 first-place awards, at Saturday’s Virginia Press Association annual awards banquet.
Cardinal also took home the Sweepstakes Award as the most awarded newsroom in the online group, and three Best in Show awards, for a total of over 50 awards.
Cardinal swept first, second and third place awards in three categories: business and financial writing (Grace Mamon, Matt Busse and Susan Cameron); sports writing portfolio (Mark Robertson, Mark Taylor and Robert Anderson); and public safety writing (Grace Mamon, Markus Schmidt and Susan Cameron).
In four other categories Cardinal took home first and second place awards: breaking news writing (Susan Cameron and a staff effort including Elizabeth Beyer, Matt Busse, Samantha Verelli, Lisa Rowan, Tad Dickens and Emily Schabacker); picture or story essay (Ben Earp and Bob Brown); data journalism (Dwayne Yancey and Kevin Myatt); and multimedia report (Dwayne Yancey, Brooke Stephenson, Robert Lunsford, Dutchie Jessee for “D-Day,” and Dwayne Yancey, Dutchie Jessee and Cloe Logan for “The Black Loyalists”).
Details to come! Tonight the team is celebrating.
