LUTHERAN QUILTERS – Members of the Quilts for Comfort Group stand between pews draped with some of the 205 quilts they made, in the Sitka Lutheran Church Tuesday. The group made the quilts for five local non-profits and one in Anchorage. The remaining quilts are sent to Lutheran World Relief which  distributes them to places around the world in need, such as Ukraine, as part of Personal Care Kits. Pictured are, from left, Helen Cunningham, Kathleen Brandt,Vicki Swanson, Paulla Hardy, Kim Hunter, Linda Swanson and Sue Fleming.  (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)

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Sentinel, KCAW Collect State Press Club Awards

By Sentinel Staff

The news staff of the Daily Sitka Sentinel and Sitka’s radio station KCAW-FM won a total of 17 Alaska Press Club Awards for local news coverage in 2015.

The awards were announced Saturday at the press club’s annual Journalism Week banquet in Anchorage.

Sentinel news reporters Shannon Haugland and Tom Hesse won first place in Breaking News for coverage of the August landslides. Sentinel photographer James Poulson won two second-place awards, all media, for Best Picture Story and Best Feature Photo, and a third place, newspapers,  for Best Sports Photo. 

In the radio category Raven news reporters Rachel Waldholz and Robert Woolsey won first place in Best Breaking News for their landslide coverage.

All told, the Sentinel won 10 awards including additional first place print awards for Best Business reporting and Best Humor. Raven Radio won seven radio awards with reporter Emily Kwong earning first place Best Profile, Best Feature and Best Single Story.

Awards to Sitka media:

Sentinel 

– Haugland and Hesse, second place, Best Reporting on Crime or Courts, the Sitka police department tasing controversy.

– Hesse, first place, Business Reporting, the Salmon Makes Cents partnership between the Sitka Sound Science Center and Silver Bay Seafood, regarding the new SBS canning line.

– Haugland and Hesse, first place, Best Breaking News, the August landslides.

– Poulson, second place all media, Best Picture Story, landslides.

– Haugland, second place, Government or Politics Reporting, Sitka police make their operating policies public.

– Poulson, second place, Best Feature Photo, all media, child with fire hose at fire department fundraiser. 

– Hesse, second place Best Reporting on Science, the Sitka Science Center-sponsored project that led to the discovery of an underwater volcano.

– Poulson, third place, Best Sports Photo, all media, a sideline scene at Little League tournament.  

– Hesse, first place, all media, Best Humor, Sitka shopkeeper pays a $300 refund in pennies.

– Poulson, second place, Best  News Photo, Sitka landslide.

KCAW

– Kwong, first place, Radio Feature, profile of Daily Sitka Sentinel.

– Woolsey, third place, Best Reporting on Crime or Courts, the police department’s Franklin Hoogendorn arrest video is made public.

– Kwong, first place, Best Profile, Jasmine Molina.

– Kwong, first place, Best Single Story, NAACP opposes the term “slave auction,” the traditional name of a Sitka fundraiser. 

– Woolsey, second place, Best Long Form Story or Podcast, Island Institute artist in residence Kimi Eisele.

– Brielle Schaffer, third place, Best Education Reporting, Sitka students and hands-on history.

– Waldholz and Woolsey, first place, Best Breaking News, August landslide.

 

 

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