The Marysville Globe-The Arlington Times won a combined 13 awards at the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association 128th annual convention in Everett Oct. 9.
The Globe won five and the Times eight. Paul Brown said it’s the most awards the papers have won in his years as publisher.
“The news awards are testimony that the paper has taken the next step in in-depth community reporting,” Brown said.
“I’m really happy that so many of our awards had to do with the newsroom working together as a team,” Managing Editor Steve Powell said.
The team of Kirk Boxleitner, Brandon Adam and Powell placed first in Investigative Reporting for the Times for its series on “Michelle Donohue,” an Arlington woman who killed her husband and was able to hide it for a decade.
Boxleitner and Powell teamed up to place first for the Times in Comprehensive Coverage for their work on the tragic “Oso Landslide” and its aftermath.
“It takes great reporting to win those two categories, so I couldn’t be prouder,” Powell said.
The Globe placed first in Special Sections for the Marysville Strawberry Festival. Publisher Paul Brown, Powell, Boxleitner and Adam were cited for their work.
“It’s our largest initiative of the year,” Brown said. “It’s a top-quality community project.”
Adam stood out in the making of online videos. Competing against all of the other circulation categories, he took all three awards. His first-place video was “Arlington downs Marysville Getchell.” Second place was the “Arlington Fly-In.” And third place was for “Marysville opens Spray Park.”
“Adam came out of college with a special skill, and it looks like it paid off for us,” Powell said. “Not too many papers our size are as good at that as we are, obviously.”
Along with those four first-place honors, the papers also won three second-place awards.
The Globe placed second in Special Sections for the Health and Wellness tab. And Boxleitner placed second for the Times in Best Business Feature for a story he did on “Local video interpreters help the deaf communicate.”
The papers also took six third-place awards.
For Best Breaking News Story for all circulation categories, the Globe placed third for the shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck with Powell, Boxleitner and Adam mentioned.
For Best Online Photo Essay for all of the circulation groups, Powell placed third with “Audience walks around Marysville farm to watch unique play.”
Powell took a third place in Best Education story for the Globe for “Students MAP out their futures” with Minority Achievement Program.
For Best Sports Feature, Adam took third place for the Times with “Arlington Eagles deaf wrestler inspiring to others.”
For Best Sports Personality, also for the Times, Powell was third with “Former Bulgarian star now Tulalip athletic director.”
