Two Peninsula Daily News staffers won two first-place awards and three honorable mentions in the Washington Press Association’s 2010 Communications Contest.
Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb and Trisha McMahon, special sections editor, were given certificates at the award luncheon at the Museum of Flight in Seattle on Saturday.
Gottlieb won first place in the state for breaking or spot news with a May 30 story headlined “Case of father who branded his children ends with no more charges.”
He received an honorable mention in agricultural or environmental reporting for a May 23 story, which ran with the headline “Elwha River’s 100-pound salmon: Did they exist? Will they return?”
Gottlieb won an honorable mention for an investigative or watchdog story for “Security breach at Coast Guard base examined,” published Nov. 1.
McMahon won two awards for a Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival special section published in October.
She won first place for page layout and an honorable mention for cover illustration.
The Washington Press Association is an organization of professional communicators whose membership includes print and online journalists and public relations practitioners as well as students in those fields.