2015 NJ-SPJ Excellence in Journalism Awards for work completed in 2014 1 Category Name Award Organization Entry Title Credits BLOG Three samples from my blog, The Dancing Egg: "To Be or To Write, That is the Question," "The Color Blog - The Dancing Egg Purple," "Clifford the Independent Blog First Place (https:thedancingegg.wordpress.com) Big Red Dog" Caren Chesler Blog - Newark Schools in Independent Blog Second Place Bob Braun's Ledger Crisis Bob Braun Blog - Special Improvement Independent Blog Third Place Rahway Rising District expansion Mark Hrywna Blog - Media_Affiliated Blog First Place The Record (Bergen County) Meadowlands Matters John Brennan Lee Solomon's class Blog - act // Camden's Media_Affiliated edifice complex // Blog Second Place The Philadelphia Inquirer Running uphill Kevin Riordan Blog - Media_Affiliated Blog Third Place The Record (Bergen County) Bergen Beat John Ensslin CARTOON- ING The casinos may close CARTOONING First Place Philadelphia Daily News but ... Signe Wilkinson Maybe we should call CARTOONING Second Place Philadelphia Daily News ... Signe Wilkinson 2 DAILY NEWS- PAPER Daily Newspaper - Best Local News First Place The Record (Bergen County) Stuck in a Jam Shawn Boburg Daily Newspaper Edison's Troubled - Best Local News Second Place The Star-Ledger Police Department Mark Mueller Caller told 911 of fire scene at Sheridans’ // Sheridan son held on drug charge day of fire // Sources: Sheridans were both stabbed // Barbara Death of wife of Boyer,Melanie Cooper CEO // Burney,Angelo Daily Newspaper Couple’s deaths still a Fichera,Jonathan - Best Local News Third Place The Philadelphia Inquirer mystery Tamari Daily Newspaper - Business Bamboozled: Towed Reporting First Place The Star-Ledger then fleeced Karin Price Mueller Daily Newspaper - Business GREETINGS FROM Reporting Second Place Philadelphia Daily News MONEY ISLAND Jenny Nark Daily Newspaper Pain of Atlantic City - Business casino closings far- Reporting Third Place The Associated Press reaching Wayne Parry Daily Newspaper Mainland's Poignant - Column Writing First Place The Philadelphia Inquirer Opener Phil Anastasia Daily Newspaper He Swings, and - Column Writing Second Place The Philadelphia Inquirer Connects Mike Sielski Daily Newspaper Burno's Path to - Column Writing Third Place The Record (Bergen County) fulfillment Tara Sullivan Daily Newspaper First Place The Star-Ledger GWB Bombshell Dents Ted Sherman,Steve 3 - Deadline Christie's 2016 Hopes Strunsky,Mark Reporting Mueller,Lisa Rose,Jenna Portnoy,Salvador Rizzo,Mike Frassinelli,Erin O'Neill,Paul Mulshine Tom Haydon,Sue Daily Newspaper Epstein,Mark Di - Deadline An Arrest 23 Years In Ionno,Kelly Reporting Second Place The Star-Ledger The Making Heyboer,Mark Mueller Daily Newspaper - Deadline Reporting Third Place The Philadelphia Inquirer Revel's Losing Bet Suzette Parmley Daily Newspaper First Place The Record (Bergen County) The editorials of Alfred P. Doblin - Editorial Writing Alfred P. Doblin on The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Daily Newspaper Second Place The Philadelphia Inquirer Untimely and Josh Gohlke - Editorial Writing unexplained // What else are they hiding? // Silent season Daily Newspaper Third Place The Star-Ledger In Sayreville, justice Julie O'Connor - Editorial Writing for victims and perpetrators 4 Daily Newspaper- First Place Burlington County Times Hidden World/Hidden Jeannie O’Sullivan, Crissa Enterprise/Series Victims Shoemaker Debree, Marion /Investigative Callahan Reporting Daily Newspaper- Second Place The Record Stuck in a Jam Shawn Boburg Enterprise/Series /Investigative Reporting Daily Newspaper- Third Place The Trentonian Dead in Jail Penny Ray Enterprise/Series /Investigative Reporting Daily Newspaper - Feature Writing First Place Philadelphia Daily News THE REEL DEAL Jason Nark Daily Newspaper - Feature Writing Second Place Philadelphia Daily News FACE OF THE CITY Jason Nark Daily Newspaper Immigrant families - Feature Writing Third Place The Record (Bergen County) torn by detentions Monsy Alvarado Daily Newspaper - Health- Science- Technology and Environmental Fear for Barnegat Bay Kirk Moore,Todd Reporting First Place Asbury Park Press — can it be saved? Bates,Jeff Colson Daily Newspaper Medical marijuana: - Health- Science- N.J. child improves as Technology and family finds fewer Environmental roadblocks in Reporting Second Place The Star-Ledger Colorado; sidebar: Susan Livio 5 Demands for medical marijuana research grow in N.J., nation driven by hopeful patients, families Daily Newspaper - Health- Science- Technology and Environmental Hospitals' new bottom Reporting Third Place The Record (Bergen County) line Lindy Washburn Daily Newspaper - Page One Design First Place The Record (Bergen County) Stuck in a Jam Robert Townsend Daily Newspaper - Page One Design Second Place Burlington County Times A1 April 16, 2014 Colleen Prendergast Daily Newspaper - Page One Design Third Place Burlington County Times A1 Nov. 21, 2014 Debra Ungerman Man behind the Chris Christie probe: U.S. Daily Newspaper Attorney Paul Fishman - Profile Writing First Place The Star-Ledger leads federal inquiry Jason Grant In bridge scandal, one Daily Newspaper lawyer could topple - Profile Writing Second Place The Star-Ledger Christie Christopher Baxter Daily Newspaper After nightmare, a - Profile Writing Third Place The Philadelphia Inquirer dream season Phil Anastasia Daily Newspaper What killed Kenwin - Public Service First Place The Star-Ledger Garcia? Christopher Baxter Daily Newspaper - Public Service Second Place The Record (Bergen County) Stuck in a Jam Staff Daily Newspaper Vigil held for - Public Service Third Place The Philadelphia Inquirer Moorestown officer // Barbara Boyer 6 Officer’s widow still has questions // Officer’s widow seeks answers in fatal crash STILL SUPERLATIVE: Daily Newspaper Cafe Matisse in - Review Writing First Place The Record (Bergen County) Rutherford Elisa Ung Daily Newspaper - Sports Reporting First Place Burlington County Times The M Pire Tom Rimback Daily Newspaper - Sports Jackson in power Reporting Second Place The Record (Bergen County) struggle with Dolan Steve Popper Chatham Snaps 23- Game Football Losing Daily Newspaper Streak, 33-0, Over - Sports High Point; Happy Reporting Third Place TAPintoChatham.net Birthday Nestler Ed Barmakian Christie plan to return Daily Newspaper disabled to N.J. leads - State or one man to hospitals, Regional News First Place The Star-Ledger jail Susan Livio Daily Newspaper - State or New Jersey Catholic Regional News Second Place The Star-Ledger Dioceses in Crisis Mark Mueller Daily Newspaper - State or Cruncher of the Regional News Third Place The Philadelphia Inquirer election numbers Andrew Seidman Daily Newspaper – Tim O’Brien Who Killed Kenwin Award First Place The Star-Ledger Garcia Christopher Baxter Daily Newspaper – Tim O’Brien Award Second Place The Record Oil Trains Scott Fallon 7 Daily Newspaper - Wilson Barto Rookie of the Portfolio of Minjae Year First Place The Record (Bergen County) Park Minjae Park Daily Newspaper - Wilson Barto Paulboro's booster // Rookie of the Point of pride // In Year Second Place The Philadelphia Inquirer wake of crash Angelo Fichera MAGAZINE Magazine - Business Reporting First Place New Jersey Monthly The Sirloin Sisters Eric Levin Wearable Technology Magazine - Can Change Business Relationships With Reporting Second Place The NonProfit Times Donors & Clients Patrick Sullivan Magazine - Feature & Profile Writing: First Place The Pennsylvania Gazette The Lightning Rod Molly Petrilla Magazine - Feature & Profile Writing: Second Place SJ Magazine Moving On Sally Friedman Magazine - Feature & Profile Writing: Third Place New Jersey Monthly Aging Out Leslie Garisto Pfaff Magazine – Opinion First Place The NonProfit Times Protect The Deduction Paul Clolery Magazine – Higher Education's Reporting First Place Inside Jersey Dirty Little Secret Kelly Heyboer Magazine – Second Place New Jersey Monthly The Master of the Anthony DePalma 8 Reporting Game Magazine – Reporting Third Place New Jersey Monthly Cannabis Conundrum Joanna Buffum NEWS- LETTERS John Chadwick ,Kara Newsletters – Rutgers University School of Arts and Donaldson,Sherri Overall First Place Sciences ACCESS Somers Newsletters – One Rutgers a World Overall Second Place Rutgers Today of Discovery Rutgers Today Staff Newsletters – Overall Third Place New Jersey Judiciary Judiciary Times Mike Mathis NON-LOCAL ONLINE Non-Local First Place The Hechinger Report A Promise to Renew Sara Neufeld Online- Enterprise/Series /Investigative Reporting Non-Local Second Place NJ Spotlight What’s Wrong With Mark Magyar Online- Chris Christie’s Enterprise/Series Government /Investigative Reporting Non-Local Third Place NJ Spotlight and WNYC/NJPR Coverage of New Scott Gurian 9 Online- Jersey's Flawed Enterprise/Series Sandy Energy Grant /Investigative Program Reporting ONLINE Christie Failing Economy Promise as Online - Business New Jersey Falls Elise Young,Terrence Reporting First Place Bloomberg News Behind U.S. Dopp,Michelle Kaske Christie Rail Kill Misses Online - Business Lowest Rates as N.J. Tom Moroney,Elise Reporting Second Place Bloomberg News Lags U.S. Young Online - Business Third-Party Energy Reporting Third Place NJ Spotlight Suppliers Tom Johnson Online – Commentary First Place NJ Spotlight Water Quality in NJ Daniel Van Abs Online – Commentary Second Place New York Times Well Blog Running as Therapy Jen A. Miller September 11: Let Us Online – Not Lose Sight of the Commentary Third Place Rutgers