Brendan McQuaid, president of the New Hampshire Press Association and president and publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, kicks off the annual Excellence in Journalism Contest Awards Banquet in Manchester on Thursday night. (Dana Wormald | New Hampshire Bulletin)
The New Hampshire Bulletin took home 11 awards at the New Hampshire Press Association’s annual Excellence in Journalism banquet on Thursday night. The honors for 2023 were presented at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester.
Ethan DeWitt and Hadley Barndollar each won a pair of first-place awards. DeWitt was first in the Feature Writing category for his piece on legislation to ban gender-affirming surgeries for minors. He also took the top honor in the Spot News category, for his coverage of a groundbreaking school funding court order.
Barndollar, who is now the statewide enterprise reporter for MassLive, won first place in Environmental Reporting, for her piece on New Hampshire’s lingering problem with the harmful chemicals known as PCBs. She also won in the Government Reporting category, for a story about homeowners being taxed on the remediation of another class of forever chemicals known as PFAS.
The Bulletin also won several second- and third-place awards, including for Journalist of the Year, with senior reporter Annmarie Timmins finishing second and DeWitt third. First place went to Michaela Towfighi of the Concord Monitor. Timmins also finished second in Political Reporting for her story about the future of the New Hampshire primary. She received a third-place award in Health Reporting for her story on the challenges for those seeking to live independently rather than in a nursing home.
DeWitt and Barndollar shared a second-place Business Reporting award for a look at how economic justice has faded in the cannabis legalization debate, and Barndollar also took second for Investigative Story or Series, for her reporting on Manchester’s efforts to prevent overdoses.
The Bulletin won third place for General Excellence.
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