The Daily Tar Heel brought home five awards from the N.C. Press Association’s 2014 awards ceremony. The contest puts the newspaper up against professional newspapers across the state.
The DTH was in Division E for newspapers with a circulation of 12,500 to 35,000.
Cammie Bellamy won first place in education reporting for her article, “New school, old ground” which was published in the July 16, 2013 edition of the DTH.
Former Editor-in-Chief Andy Thomason won first place for editorial writing, which included the “Rape is a violent crime” editorial published in the March 31, 2013 edition of the paper.
Other winners included a group award for Madeline Will, Andy Thomason, Caitlin McCabe and Jordan Bailey who came in first for news enterprise reporting honoring the DTH’s sexual assault on campus series. Kelly Parsons won second place for sports feature writing for her article, “Players see blurry future” in the Oct. 22, 2012 newspaper.
Dailytarheel.com came in second for general excellence for websites.
The 2014 N.C. Press’ 2014 Winter Institute also honored CBS’s Charlie Rose, who won North Carolinian of the Year.
