Peninsula Daily News writer and PDN, Sequim Gazette freelancer both bring home awards for work

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, May 12, 2015

SEATTLE — Peninsula Daily News Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb and PDN and Sequim Gazette freelancer Trish Tisdale of Port Angeles won 12 awards at the Washington Press Association’s 2014 Communications Contest awards luncheon Saturday at The Museum of Flight.

Gottlieb won first-place awards in the daily newspaper categories of investigative-watchdog for an article on the Olympic Medical Center Foundation, features-general on the schooner Adventuress’ ship’s bell, business news on the closure of the Lincoln Theater, news-general news on the departure of maestro and former Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra conductor Adam Stern, and news-breaking news on the Gordy’s Pizza & Pasta in Port Angeles mistakenly getting calls from viewers of “American Idol.”

Gottlieb received second-place awards in the categories of agriculture-environment for an article on the Port Angeles landfill and news-breaking news on a staged kidnapping in Sequim.

He received a third-place award in agriculture-environment for an article on raising the streets of downtown Port Angeles, also called “sluicing the Hogback.”

Tisdale, a former PDN staff member, won first place in the daily newspaper category for articles in the special section, “Living on the Peninsula,” which appeared in the PDN and the Sequim Gazette.

The awards were for graphic design/editing-page layout for “Hot and Fresh from the Dented Buoy,” second place for graphic design/editing-page layout for “Hiking the Peninsula on Two Legs and Four,” and honorable mention for graphic design/editing-page layout for non-daily newspapers for “The Greenhouse.”

Tisdale also won an honorable mention award for advertising-campaign or series for “Meet Me at the Rally Point.”

About eight newspapers competed in the daily news category.

More than 60 people attended the awards banquet.