For the twelfth consecutive year, Civil Beat has been voted the most productive general news story following the bankruptcy of the Society of Professional Journalists in Hawaii.
The honor among several was announced Tuesday at SPJ’s annual awards rite in Honolulu. This is the first in-person presentation since the coronavirus pandemic began in 2020.
The festival is judged through out-of-state news hounds and includes 2022 works submitted through newspapers, magazines, media outlets and student hounds across the islands.
The judges praised Civil Beat’s design and added knowledge visualizations, detailed guides, a giant opinion section, and research articles.
Hawaiians “should be proud to have one of the country’s local news sites as a source of news and information. This one is hard to beat, anywhere,” the quote read.
You can get a full list of prizes at this link. Here are some other highlights.
The most sensible place for public service reporting, which is the most sensible award, went to Mahealani Richardson, Peter Tang, Brenda Salgado of Hawaii News Now for “HNN Investigates: Red Hill, One Year Later. “
This story, which explored the current impact of the Navy’s water contamination crisis on the local community, also won the series/documentary/special news category in the television division.
Civil Beat reporter Christina Jedra was also revered for her extensive Red Hill politics. He obtained the first position in investigative reporting in the media division.
The second position went to Civil Beat research editor John Hill for his series examining the state’s procedure for their parents’ youth.
Jedra also partnered with Civil Beat interactive developer April Estrellon to design an interactive game that showcases the issues and delays affecting Honolulu’s authorization process. SPJ judges chose “Game: How Long Does It Take to Get a Honolulu License?”as a multimedia presentation.
Civil Beat swept the government reporting category, and the most sensible place went to Washington journalist Nick Grube’s account that former Hawaii congressman Kai Kahele had been asking other members to vote for months.
Columnist Eric Stinton has won honors in several categories, writing columns or blog/news and writing columns or blog/articles or sports.
Civil Beat also earned a rare mention in sports reports with the third position in Stinton’s column “A boxing club for troubled youth gets a new life in Kalihi. “
Thomas Heaton and Nathan Eagle’s The Civil Beat won the top spot in clinical reporting for “Ticking Ecological Time Bombs: Thousands of Sunken World War II Ships Are Rusted at the Bottom of the Pacific. “
The narrative component of a series that explores the fatal legacy of the war that continues to ravage the Solomon Islands.
Heaton also ranked third in the applications category for the “UXO: Lethal Legacy” project.
Eagle, meanwhile, won the top position in photography/videography for his “hypnotic” photo of an underwater shipwreck in the Solomon Islands.
Journalist Cassie Ordonio, who now works for Hawaii Public Radio, won the current position in the science reporting category for her Civil Beat article “How Do Hawaii’s Weirdest Plants Disappear?Freeze them.
Ordonio also won first place in art/entertainment writing for “A Tale Of 2 Monarchies: Queen Elizabeth’s Death Stirs Up Mixed Feelings In Hawaii. “
Hawaii Business Magazine reporter Noelle Fujii-Oride’s paintings won first, moment and third place in the knowledge journalism short story or series category, with “May 2022: These Are the Ethnic Groups Making the Most Money in Hawaii” taking the honors.
“Inside Saguaro Prison,” HNN’s on-site look at the Arizona facility that houses many inmates in Hawaii, won first place in the special segment category for Lynn Kawano and Peter Tang.
In the reporting category, Kirstin Downey won first place for “It’s A Nightmare”: Feral Pig Population Explosion Rattles East Honolulu Neighborhood.
Marina Riker, a reporter for Maui-based Civil Beat, won first and third place in the reporting category for two stories about a couple living in their car to make ends meet on Valley Island and a Hawaiian family’s efforts to reclaim ancestral lands.
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Civil Beat was named Hawaii’s Best News Site for the eleventh consecutive year through the Hawaii Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.